Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles is the popularizer of soul jazz, the intellectual leaders of the movement is Horace Silver, a slight, 35-year-old pianist and composer from (of all places) Norwalk, Conn. Silver, came to New York with Stan Getz in 1950, played with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for a few years, and finally formed his own quintet...
...Silver is a favorite of jazz buffs; one reason is the care he takes in making recordings. He never rushes into a record date; instead, he waits until he has built up a small repertoire of original tunes which are rehearsed and polished by the quintet in nightclubs and concerts until they are ready to be committed to wax. Silver seldom makes a record--one or two a year at most--but when he does, it's generally a very good...
...were nevertheless outcasts in a Christian society that viewed them as heretics. They were prohibited from owning land or holding titles, and lived by the illegal profession of moneylending. Bled by royal taxes, the barons and priests were forced to mortgage their lands to the moneylenders for gold and silver...
...reform his country into democratic stability -and how long it will take. Last week the question came up in the Dominican Republic, for more than 30 years the private preserve of the late Rafael Trujillo, where just such a President was inaugurated. The man: Juan Bosch, 53, a scholarly, silver-haired writer, ex-revolutionary and theoretical reformer-and Mr. Question Mark himself...
...Ahead (Pacific Jazz PJ-43). The Jazz Crusaders are four young men who grew up together in the rock 'n' roll atmosphere of Houston, Texas. Their music is definitely in the bluesy, "funky" tradition which dominates jazz today, but unlike others, they are not content simply to imitate Horace Silver and Cannonball Adderley. The most gifted member of the group is Wilton Felder, who is the first really exciting thing to happen to the tenor saxophone since Sonny Rollins came out of retirement a couple of years ago. Felder, at the age of 21, has already developed a unique style...