Horas Silver died

On Wednesday, June 18, at the age of 85, a jazz pianist and composer died in the United States, one of the pioneers of Funk and Hard-Bop Horas Silver.

It is reported by The Los Angeles Times .

Horaz Silver was born in 1928 in Connecticut, he began as a saxophonist, later switched to the piano. He received fame in 1950, when the Saxophonist Stan Getz, who recorded three plays of a young musician, took his group on tour.

Having moved to New York in 1951, Horaz Silver began performing at the Birdland club, together with the drummer of Art Blacki created the group The Jazz Messengers and signed a contract with the famous Blue Note Jazz label, on which he released records until the early 1980s.

Since the mid-1950s, Silver made his own quintet, in which Blue Mitchel, Junior Cook, Woody Show, Freddie Hubbard, Wayn Schorter, Joe Henderson, Randy Brer, Tom Harrell and Bob Berg played in different years. Over time, the ensemble switched to Funk and Soul. It is believed that the term "Funk" itself has gained popularity precisely thanks to Khoras Silver.

Many topics composed by Khoras Silver were included in the repertoire of other musicians and subsequently became classic - “Señor Blues” , “Sister Sadie” , “Blowing the Blues Away” , “The Preacher” , “Doodlin” , “Room 608” , “Song for My Father” , "No sminging" .