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Alan Silva in Belgium, 1969
Alan Silva in Belgium, 1969

Alan Silva (born Alan Treadwell da Silva, Bermuda, January 22, 1939) is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Ba (officially The Bermuda Islands or The Somers Isles) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the For the Ornette Coleman album after which this genre was named see Free Jazz A Collective Improvisation. The double bass is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed String instrument used in the modern symphony orchestra.

Born a British subject to an Azorean Portuguese woman (Irene da Silva) and a black Bermudian man known only as "Ruby" at the very height of segregation, Silva emigrated to the United States at the age of five with his mother, eventually acquiring U. The Azores ( Açores ɐˈsoɾɨʃ or) is a Portuguese Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1500 km (950  mi) from Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. S. citizenship by the age of 18 or 19. He adopted the professional name Alan Silva in his twenties.

He was quoted in a Bermuda newspaper in 1988 as saying that although he left the island at a young age, he always considered himself Bermudian. He grew up in Harlem, New York City, first taking up the trumpet. Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African American cultural and business center The City of New York

Silva is known as one of the most inventive bass players in jazz and has performed with many of the great names in the world of avant-garde jazz, including Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray, and Archie Shepp. Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 15 or March 25, 1929 in New York City) is an American Pianist and poet Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, Legal name Le Sony'r Ra; Albert Ayler ( July 13, 1936 – November 1970 was an American avant-garde Jazz saxophonist, singer and Composer. James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray (born Idabel Oklahoma in 1936 is one of the pioneers of the Free jazz style of Drumming Murray spent Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is a prominent American Jazz Saxophonist.

Silva performed in 1964's October Revolution in Jazz and for Ayler's Live in Greenwich Village album. He has lived mainly in Paris since the early 1970s, where he formed the Celestial Communication Orchestra, a group dedicated to the performance of free jazz with various instrumental combinations. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city In the 1990s he picked up the electronic keyboard, declaring that his bass playing no longer surprised him. An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is a type of Keyboard instrument. He has also used the electric violin and electric sarangi on his recordings. An electric violin is a Violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound The Sarangi ( Hindi

Since around 2000 he has performed more frequently as a bassist and bandleader, notably at New York City's annual Vision Festivals.

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as Take Some Risks:

with Albert Ayler:

with Sun Ra:

with Cecil Taylor:

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with Shipen Lebzelter:

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with Grachan Moncur III:

with Dave Burrell:

with Jimmy Lyons:

with Francois Tusques:

with Frank Wright:

with Bobby Few:

with Bill Dixon:

with Franz Koglmann:

with Andrew Hill:

with the Globe Unity Orchestra:

with Abdelhai Bennani:

with Itaru Oki:

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