biography
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Silver, Horace (Ward Martin Tavares)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Jazz musician, born in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. An influential pianist and composer, he helped to develop and popularize the hard-bop style in the mid-1950s. He performed with Stan Getz and Coleman Hawkins in 1950–3, was a co-founder of the Jazz Messengers (1954), and led his own groups after that. |
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