Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver, one of the most important jazz musicians of the twentieth century, was born on September 2, 1928 and died on June 18, 2014...
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Here is what Jazz Giants says about Hank Mobley: Mobley began playing tenor saxophone as a New Jersey teenager and gained experience in the bands of Max Roach...
Chick Corea – Amando Anthony Corea, to be precise – was born in Chelsea, MA in 1941. He is of southern Italian and Spanish descent. Corea is considered one of...
The first few seconds of Song For My Father (above) sound a lot like the start of Steely Dan’s Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, which of course came...