horace silver has died

Ghasley
Salted crow here please.

What's important is the body of work Horace Silver left behind, not what one of us happened to recall. I miss things all the time.

I am a big fan and had looked up his data more than once. There's an iPad on the coffee table so everyone has access to lyrics and bio while listening.

It's amazing how much use it gets, especially on Tuesday nights when there's a crowd. This afternoon I had to make a trip to the grocery and the Jazz channel on Sirius XM was playing a live version of "Cape Verdean Blues."

On the trip home they were still paying tribute to Horace Silver, setting aside part of today's programming to honor him.

We do miss things sometimes; and sometimes things fall through the cracks. Frankly, I am amazed that having been a fan of Silver and of tenor saxophone players for so many years I was not aware of that fact. Glad to know and thanks for the education. Do you know if he ever recorded on tenor? Now I am really intrigued and the hunt is on.

I can't confirm but this looks like it "might" be the Stan Getz album that Horace Silver plays on. Not sure it's worth chasing down even though it's available on CD.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/stan-getz-vol-2-1950-1952-mw0001424659

I'm with Schubert, "Song for My Father" is desert island worthy in my house. Played it last Saturday.

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I met Horace Silver when I was in college at CSUN back in the early 70's. He was a friend of one of my instructors. He came to our class one day and chatted us up on jazz for about a half hour. I was very new to jazz back then and I had no idea that this guy was a giant. Fast forward to 1995 and I went to see him at Vartan's Jazz Club when I lived in Denver in the early-mid 90's. I walked over to him after his set to remind him of the day he visited our classroom. He remembered visiting our classroom...but he didn't remember me. We had a great conversation. Vartan's was a killer club in Cherry Creek, a great upscale venue. They had top-name talent all the time. Sadly, Denver would't support it and the club died an agonizing death. I have several of Horace's LP's from his 60's & 70's output. This is sad news.
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