One was saxophonist Stan Getz, who sat in with the house band one night in 1950. “They would bring in name players,” he said. While the setting was less than ideal for the straight-laced Silver, Rosenbaum points out, the clubs had one key benefit. “We played for the floor shows - they had a strip dancer and a comedian and a singer,” he said. Silver began playing in clubs in his hometown of Hartford, Connecticut. "In the beginning, and I still do dig the Blues, gospel. “I've always taken a bit of this and a bit of that and blended it together," Silver said. His strength was drawing from multiple sources and putting them together in the jazz idiom. While he was successful as a pianist, throughout his career, Silver was most revered as a composer and arranger.
"They used to throw parties for the family - you know - on Saturday afternoons - people would come over and play the music that they grew up with in Cape Verde islands. “He grew up in a musical household," he said. Speaking recently, Rosenbaum recounted the highlights of Silver’s life, which started as the son of an immigrant from Cape Verde. “I try to make people think with my music,” he said in a long, biographical interview from 1981 with jazz writer and photographer Bob Rosenbaum. Throughout his remarkable career that began in the 1940s, the pianist, composer and arranger always had one goal in mind. Jazz pianist and composer Horace Silver, 85, has died in New Rochelle, New York.
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