Horace Silver
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.
Silver was born on September 2, 1928, in Norwalk, Connecticut. His mother, Gertrude, was from Connecticut his father, John Tavares Silver, was born on the island of Maio, Cape Verde, and emigrated to the United States as a young man. She was a maid and sang in a church choir he worked for a tire company. Horace had a much older halfbrother, Eugene Fletcher, from his mothers first marriage, and was the third child for his parents, after John, who lived tomonths, and Maria, who was stillborn.
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