Horace Silver, jazz musician and composer, dies aged 85

... famed for pioneering hard bop, has died aged 85, National Public Radio said on Wednesday Silver, who was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, was moulded by the Portuguese influence in the islands of Cape Verde, from where his family emigrated to the ...



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