Remembering Horace Silver on his birthday 🎂 📷 Francis Wolff, 1962 "Unlike many bebop pianists, Silver emphasized melodic simplicity over harmonic complexity; his improvisations, while sophisticated, were never so intricate as to be inaccessible." www.youtube.com/watch?v=79mk...
Horace Silver at the Open Door 📷 Francis Wolff, 1955 "At a time when the refined, quiet &, to some, bloodless style known as cool jazz was all the rage, he was hailed as a leader of the back-to-basics movement that came to be called hard bop." - Peter Keepnews www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuOw...
On Horace Silver's birthday, I'm listening to his 1958 LP Further Explorations The great photo on the cover is, of course, by Francis Wolff. album.link/y/OLAK5uy_mk...
Val Wilmer Horace Silver, on a bus near Central Park, NY, Summer 1971 This is from a wonderful trove of Wilmer's jazz photos at the Victoria & Albert Museum website.
