Horace Parlan
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Horace Parlan (born 1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz piano player.
Noted for his contributions to the classic Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots, Parlan often bridges the divide between the chordal sophistication of the bop idiom and the African-American "roots."
His later work, notably a series of duos with the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp display a sturdy architecture reminiscent of Gospel music.
As a child, Parlan was stricken with polio, resulting in the partial crippling of his right hand. The handicap, though, has contributed to his development of a particularly "pungent" left-hand chord voicing style, while comping with highly rhythmic phrases with the right.
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