Horace Silver on tenor sax

[Hardbopjazz]

This photo is from 1946 with Walter Radcliffe on piano at the Monterey night club in  New Haven Connecticut. He was 18.    

 

[Dan Gould]

I thought this might be a goof photo when I read the subject. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Horace played tenor throughout high school. Didn't he play it on his first professional gig? I seem to remember that's what he said in his autobiography.

[Gheorghe]

This photo is in Horace Silver´s Autobiography "lets get to the Nitty Gritty" . 

Has the strange tenore-posture something to do with the accident Horace had when he was a Boy, where he hurt his back, something with trying to jump over a Creek …. that´s how he describes it in his book. 

Did Horace Always have his hair straight? 

[Don Brown]

Yes, he was born with his hair like that. As Horace told an interviewer in the 1960s, "Paul Gonsalves and I are the only Portuguese Creoles in jazz." At that time that was probably true.