Horace Silver, the prolific jazz pianist and composer who cofounded the legendary Jazz Messengers, pioneered the genre known as hard bop and mentored scores of musicians, has died. He was 85. Silver ...

Pianist Horace Silver, whose potent and catchy combination of blues, funk and Latin sounds shifted the jazz landscape in the 1950s and '60s, died Wednesday morning at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. He ...

Looking back, we can say now that Horace Silver was way ahead of his time. The pianist not only invented hard bop piano but also funk. All in 1952, two years after being discovered by tenor ...

Bassist Christian McBride is the creative chair for jazz at the Los Angeles Philharmonic –- which means he gets to put together programs at Walt Disney Concert Hall with music he loves. One of the ...

Jazz pianist and composer Horace Silver, 85, has died in New Rochelle, New York. Throughout his remarkable career that began in the 1940s, the pianist, composer and arranger always had one goal in ...

With musicians, and artists generally, there's a tendency to think the best work is the earliest. It's usually true. Paul McCartney was never better than when he recorded with the Beatles. Chuck Berry ...

Horace Silver, the innovative and prolific jazz pianist best known for such pieces as “Song for My Father” and “The Preacher,” has died. He was 85. Silver died Wednesday in New Rochelle, New York, ...

Horace Silver, a pioneering jazz composer and pianist, has died of natural causes at the age of 85. Silver was born as Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva on September 2, 1928, in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Horace Silver, a pianist, composer and band leader with a tireless inventiveness who influenced generations of jazzmen with his distinctive hard bop sound, has died. He was 85. The Westchester County ...

Horace Silver, the pianist and composer, who has died aged 85, was one of the most exhilarating and influential forces in jazz over the last 65 years. His infectious Latin and hard-bop inflected tunes ...

This post was updated at 5:40 p.m. ET. Pianist and composer Horace Silver, who created a rhythmic jazz known as "hard bop" that combined R&B and gospel to go along with his eclectic style of piano ...