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Pete Carlson's Jazz Concerts Kick-Off Second Season With The Fred Horn Quintet, "A Tribute to Horace Silver"

Pete Carlson who hosted seventeen jazz concerts last season is once again bringing top jazz performers back to the Desert jazz scene. On November 16th, The Fred Horn Quintet performs, “A Tribute to Horace Silver.” The concert is inside Pete Carlson’s Golf & Tennis in Palm Desert at 7pm. Admission is $15 for adults, and students are free. Tickets are available in advance at Pete Carlson's or at the door that evening. All seating is general admission and is limited to 150. For additional information please contact 760-568-3263.  Admissions benefit the American Jazz Institute’s Scholarship Fund for youth musicians.

The Fred Horn Quintet will perform a tribute to jazz great, Horace Silver.  For more than fifty years, Silver has composed some of jazz’s most enduring pieces while performing them in a distinctively personal style. As a jazz pianist and composer, Silver is known for his humorous and funky playing style and for his pioneering compositional contributions to hard bop. He was influenced by a wide range of musical styles, notably gospel music, African music, and Latin American music and sometimes ventured into the soul jazz genre. In the early fifties, Silver lived in New York where he accompanied saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and many other legends. His piano trio spent time on the road with saxophonist Stan Getz who recorded three of Silver's compositions. Silver also collaborated with Art Blakey forming the Jazz Messengers during the early 1950s.

 

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