Two of the most dominant and successful hard bop groups of the 1950s were Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and the Horace Silver Quintet. One wasn't better than the other. Their differences were a ...

Everyone has a favorite Horace Silver album. Mine is Horace-Scope. Recorded in July 1960, the album has a hair-raising lineup of tracks and a superb mix of Silver's grumbling bass lines, high-energy ...

In high school, I had one of those old school CD pockets that would wrap around a sun visor in my car, which was inherited from my mom’s car in the ‘90s. I didn’t have satellite radio, and a guy can ...