| LC control no. | n 79008097 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Parlan, Horace |
| See also | Corporate body: Horace Parlan Trio Corporate body: Horace Parlan Quintet |
| Birth date | 1931-01-19 |
| Death date | 2017-02-23 |
| Place of birth | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Næstved (Denmark) |
| Field of activity | Jazz |
| Profession or occupation | Pianists |
| Found in | Jubilee shout [SR] p1978 (a.e.) container (Horace Parlan, piano) New Grove dict. of jazz (Parlan, Horace (Louis); b. Jan. 19, 1931, Pittsburgh; pianist) Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb. 27, 2017 (Horace Parlan, a jazz pianist who overcame limited use of his right hand to develop a distinctive punchy style that made him a stalwart of the hard-bop movement of the 1950s and 1960s and a notable collaborator with such stars as Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon, died Feb. 23 [2017] in Naestved, Denmark; he was 86; Horace Louis Parlan was born Jan. 19, 1931, in Pittsburgh; worked with top musicians visiting Pittsburgh before moving to New York in the late 1950s; moved in 1972 to Denmark; worked primarily in Europe for the rest of his career; his final recording, "My Little Brown Book," appeared in 2007) |
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