Horace Silver is best known for his enduring compositions, many becoming standards of the jazz vocabulary, such as ‘Peace’, ‘Song For My Father’, ‘Sister Sadie’ and ‘Nica’s Dream’.

Silver also co-founded ‘The Jazz Messengers’ alongside drummer Art Blakey, and was known as a bandleader that fostered some of the up and coming soloists in jazz, names such as Hank Mobley, Blue Mitchell, Louis Hayes and Joe Henderson.

Horace Silver died on June 18, 2014 in his home in New Rochelle, New York, aged 85.