Horace Silver's The Stylings of Horace Silver
Music Roadtrip
Video Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RqqotDlkS8
Description: Horace Silver’s 1957 album *The Stylings of Horace Silver* catches the pianist-bandleader in full modern-jazz stride, yet its cover places him not in a smoky club but amid the polished glamour of The Rink at Rockefeller Center. The juxtaposition feels deliberate: cool, urbane hard bop set against Midtown’s sleek ice and towering art deco facades, as if the music itself were skating effortlessly through postwar New York sophistication. Standing here today, you can almost hear his crisp, blues-inflected lines echoing off the surrounding stone and glass. This Rockefeller Center viewpoint is one of the featured stops in the MusicRoadTrip.com App.
StreetView: None
Address: 1957 - Rockefeller Center Skating Rink, West 50th Street b/t 5th and 6th Aves.
Cultural: Album Covers
City: New York
State: NY
Spotify URL: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ZATfKurLqflrBhv2FLht5