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Horace Parlan

real name Horace Louis Parlan

American‐Danish jazz pianist

Pittsburgh, United States · 1931-01-19 – 2017-02-23

Horace Parlan is credited on 1,123 releases across 199 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,123

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199

Albums

8

Decades active

232

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Horace Parlan (born January 19, 1931, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - died February 24, 2017, Korsør, Denmark) was an American-born Danish modern jazz pianist, with a strong left hand.
Parlan was discovered by Charles Mingus, and played and recorded with him from 1957 to 1959. After that he played with Dexter Gordon, Booker Ervin, Roland Kirk and many others. He moved to Copenhagen in 1972 and became a Danish citizen in 1995.

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1,123 releases · 199 albums · active 1958–2025

  • Performance · 1,406
  • Other credits · 35
  • Production · 4

Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Columbia 30th Street Studio · Sweet Silence Studios · Studio 44 (2)

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