[Dixielandjazz] Vivat Horace Silver !

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

I too was misinformed about Horace Silver, but the word from his son was that Horace was eating breakfast! 


I might as well cut and paste the report from the red-hued Scotsman who is so far as I'm aware the only person I've contacted who's heard from Dick Wellstood's family  (where are the tapes he had, I ask?)
He is likewise pleased --  though as far as I knew Horace was still drawing breath,  and manifesting the inspiration he had from Art Hodes, and interesting some rather prone to cry, "go home, clean bopper".  No lack of earth or colour in Horace.  

and no connection with the New Testament thirty pieces of S......

Robert R. Calder


Horace Silver lives!by charliethechulo 
About a week ago, at a gig, someone told me Horace Silver had just died. I 
must admit that my immediate reaction was surprise: I'd assumed he'd 
died years ago. It turns out we were both wrong: Horace lives.
For some reason that has yet to be explained, a number of jazz sites and 
discussion boards last week carried the exaggerated news of the 
pianist's death, and many have since published grovelling apologies. So 
Mr Silver, the founding-father of hard-bop, joins the surprisingly long list (headed, of course by Mark Twain) of people who lived to read their own obituaries.
Strangely, that list includes another jazz pianist, Michael 'Dodo' Marmarosa 
(who'd worked with Charlie Parker): his obituary appeared in a number of newspapers in 1992, ten years before his actual death. The explanation 
was that a persistent fan of his records - a Briton who lived in the 
Pittsburgh area where Dodo was leading a reclusive life - kept 
telephoning him to ask about the details of old recordings and demanding an interview. In order to put an end to this intrusion, Marmarosa 
answered the telephone with an assumed voice and announced that "Mr 
Marmarosa passed away yesterday".