New Rochelle's Horace Silver, Jazz Pioneer, Dies At 85

... died in his New Rochelle home on Wednesday, June 18, according to The New York Times. He was 85. Silver, a native of Norwalk, Conn., began performing in the 1950s at a time when cool jazz, a smoother variation on the genre, was the most popular. ...



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