Silver began his study of music on an old upright piano that an uncle salvaged. I want to be a musician,’ “ Silver wrote in his autobiography. “When I heard that band play, I said to myself, ‘That’s for me. But it was listening to the Jimmie Lunceford band at a local amusement park when he was 11 years old that placed Silver squarely onto the path of music. Growing up Silver heard the folk music of his father’s homeland and black gospel music of his mother’s church. His father, John Tavares Silver, was an immigrant from Cape Verde, an island group off the west coast of Africa. “He was not only prolific, he was a unique composer,” said Phil Pastras, editor of Silver’s 2006 book, “Let’s Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver.” “Even an ordinary 12-bar blues in his hands turned into something magical.”
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