![]() ![]() There he would get to 52nd Street and see anyone and everyone he wanted until he got a gig with Stan Getz that took him to New York, right into the nitty gritty of the jazz scene. He would play hooky from school leave a note for his father saying he was going to the Apple. Horace said that after hearing the Lunceford band at 11 years old, he got married to his first wifeLady Music. I never had to fight to get any of my compositions recorded." His first instrument was the tenor saxophone and he later switched to piano after getting hooked onto Jimmie Lunceford and his band. ![]() They liked me, and they liked my music and my writing. In his autobiography, Let's Get Down To the Nitty Gritty (University of California Press, 2007), Silver had this to say about his bosses: "I always had a good relationship with Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, co-founders and directors of Blue Note Records. Silver stayed with Blue Note Records for 28 years until the label was sold to Columbia Records and Lion retired to Cuernavaca, Mexico. Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff collaborated and built the Blue Note vault of music that included the artistry of immortals: Miles Davis, Sonny Clark, Sidney Bechet, Clifford Brown, Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, and Horace Tavares Silver, from Norwalk, Connecticut. 75 years ago Blue Note Records was started by two German immigrants who loved jazz and believed that the music should be heard and preserved. The Q&A portion of this article first appeared on KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles) in 1974. ![]()
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