{"id":5878,"date":"2014-07-08T17:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T00:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2014-07-08T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T03:16:51","slug":"other-places-a-sideman-remembers-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/07\/other-places-a-sideman-remembers-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: A Sideman Remembers Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;tYuaHYfoTcGqPNnyNtfgRTVWwFhlBpZf&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Following the death of Horace Silver on June 18, Bill Kirchner called my attention to trumpeter John McNeil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remembrance of his time in Silver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quintet in the late 1970s. It appears on the <em>New Music Box<\/em> website. McNeil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s essay gives insights into traits and practices that formed Silver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership qualities. For one thing, he insisted that his sidemen be on time. If they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, he fined them twenty-five dollars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/HoraceSilverJohnMcNeil1978.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/HoraceSilverJohnMcNeil1978.jpg\" alt=\"HoraceSilverJohnMcNeil1978\" width=\"400\" height=\"251\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/HoraceSilverJohnMcNeil1978.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/HoraceSilverJohnMcNeil1978-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><font size=2\"><strong>Photo via <em>New Music Box<\/em> courtesy of John McNeil<\/strong><\/font><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The on-time rule also applied to getting back to the bandstand after a break. I ran afoul of this one time when I had been busy at the bar, chatting up a member of the opposite sex. All of a sudden I heard Horace play a little arpeggio and realized everyone was on the bandstand but me. I rushed up on stage and as I went by the piano, Horace, without looking up, said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Twenty-five bucks. Good lookin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 though.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, being on time wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just some rigid rule of his. What really mattered to Horace was that being late and keeping other musicians waiting was disrespectful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of McNeil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recollection of his formative time with Silver, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/articles\/memories-of-horace-silver\/\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. His concluding anecdote speaks volumes about Horace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s moral integrity.<\/p>\n<p>For <em>Rifftides<\/em> thoughts about Silver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s importance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/06\/on-horace-silver.html\"target=\"_blank\">see this<\/a>, posted the day after his passing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;tYuaHYfoTcGqPNnyNtfgRTVWwFhlBpZf&#8221;] Following the death of Horace Silver on June 18, Bill Kirchner called my attention to trumpeter John McNeil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remembrance of his time in Silver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quintet in the late 1970s. It appears on the New Music Box website. McNeil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s essay gives insights into traits and practices that formed Silver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership qualities. For one thing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}