Jazz pioneer Horace Silver dies at age 85

... away this morning at 85 years of age," said the famed jazz label in a statement on Wednesday. Silver, a native of Norwalk, Connecticut, was shaped by the Portuguese influence in the islands of Cape Verde, from where his family emigrated to the ...



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