horace silver has died

I can't confirm but this looks like it "might" be the Stan Getz album that Horace Silver plays on. Not sure it's worth chasing down even though it's available on CD.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/stan-getz-vol-2-1950-1952-mw0001424659

I'm with Schubert, "Song for My Father" is desert island worthy in my house. Played it last Saturday.

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I met Horace Silver when I was in college at CSUN back in the early 70's. He was a friend of one of my instructors. He came to our class one day and chatted us up on jazz for about a half hour. I was very new to jazz back then and I had no idea that this guy was a giant. Fast forward to 1995 and I went to see him at Vartan's Jazz Club when I lived in Denver in the early-mid 90's. I walked over to him after his set to remind him of the day he visited our classroom. He remembered visiting our classroom...but he didn't remember me. We had a great conversation. Vartan's was a killer club in Cherry Creek, a great upscale venue. They had top-name talent all the time. Sadly, Denver would't support it and the club died an agonizing death. I have several of Horace's LP's from his 60's & 70's output. This is sad news.
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Mitch4t nice story!

Horace was a giant. Jazz owes him a huge debt of gratitude: He was a peerless composer of Hard Bop idiom; an inimitably funky pianist; and was an ace promoter of talented, young musicians. I loved how his songs always told a story.