The Horace Silver Songbook
Horace Silver turns 80 on Tuesday, September 2, and Night Lights pays tribute to his compositions this week with performances by Art Blakey, Woody Herman, Art Farmer, Mark Murphy, Eddie Jefferson, Chet Baker, Ran Blake, and Silver himself. The program airs tonight at 11 p.m. EST on WFIU and will be archived for online listening Monday morning at the link above (which also includes a video of Silver performing "Senor Blues" in 1959).
Next week: "Last of the Lions: Gerald Wilson."