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- ↑ "Horace Silver – Obituary". (June 19, 2014). The Daily Telegraph.
- 1 2 Rosenthal, David H. (1993) Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music, 1955–1965. Oxford University Press. p. 38.
- 1 2 Silver, Horace (2007) Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty – The Autobiography of Horace Silver. University of California Press.
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- ↑ Cook, Richard (2004) Blue Note Records – The Biography. Justin, Charles & Co. p. 74.
- ↑ Shoemaker, Bill (November 1999) "Horace Silver – The Horace Silver Retrospective". JazzTimes.
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- ↑ "Sunday Afternoon with Babs Gonzales at Small's Paradise – Babs Gonzales". Fresh Sound Records. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
- ↑ McDonough, John (September 2014) "Horace Silver". Down Beat p. 49.