Horace+Silver

His earliest musical influenced Cape verdean folk music.His style was hard bop.Horace could play piano & saxophone as a high schooler.He was born in 1928 september 2 in a town called Norwalk,in CT.He had a Portuguese Father. He played 1950-2000.Silver than worked with getz for 1 year.He started to work with Art Blakey.When He played piano be played it funky fresh and he was imaginative. Back in 1952 Silver worked with Lou Donaldson.This would lead him to his first recording. Silver recorded for Columbia,Bluenote. Silver had a great life and career.The legend is still alive.He recorded some awesome songs such as ``room 608,The preacher & Doolin''.

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