Horace Parlan
- MatchHorace Parlan
- 100%Hampton Hawes
- 96%Duke Pearson
- 95%Hank Mobley
- 92%Jackie McLean
- 89%The Three Sounds
- 87%Lou Donaldson
- 83%Sonny Clark
- 79%Stanley Turrentine
- 77%Lee Morgan
- 71%Cole Porter
Biography
19 January 1931, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Parlan played piano from an early age, his first professional work being in R&B bands during the early and mid-50s. In 1957 he joined Charles Mingus in New York, later playing with Lou Donaldson, Booker Ervin, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Johnny Griffin, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and others. In the early 70s he settled in Denmark, playing with local and visiting musicians including Dexter Gordon, Archie Shepp and Michal Urbaniak. As a result of... Read more