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Alan Lee Silva
Alan Lee Silva is a composer, arranger, and orchestrator who has written music for theme parks and live shows all over the world, including Universal Studios Japan, Tokyo Disney Sea, Disney Cruise Lines, Sesame Street Live, Sesame Place, and Sea World’s Aquatica. Most recently, he recorded music for an upcoming Universal Studios Japan project at Abbey Road Studios in London.
He orchestrated the musicals Secondhand Lions and Liberty Smith, and he scored the independent films Animated American, Full Moon Fables and Eli’s Coming. Additional credits include arrangements and orchestrations for feature films Cinderella 3 and Enough, and television’s 7th Heaven, Brothers and Sisters, and Soul Collector.
Alan lives in Southern California with his wife and has two grown daughters.•
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Bassist Alan Silva, a key figure in New York City’s experimental and free jazz communities during the 1960s and a stalwart figure in France since he relocated in the early 1970s, turns 85 today. I’m posting an interview that we did on WKCR in January 1994. A lot of information contained herein — although it’s not as detailed as the excellent 2002 interview with Dan Warburton contained in this link. (https://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/silva.html?fbclid=IwAR1P_g1OtnDhLnGQ2EQuO4LnN-8tMs3Upw2P93iDszcEulukhgv01ITWryI)
Also, here is a piece about Alan Silva’s mother, Irene Levy, that Stephen Haynes linked to today on Facebook. (https://patch.com/new-york/fortgreene/irene-levy-union-pioneer-and-long-time-fort-greene-reda52a8e546?fbclid=IwAR2KvRFj4g7PI9M2gxIjVoFBOOlex1lHYmnPDoCITO5CAbO8UgFV_aKvl6k)
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Alan Silva (WKCR):
[MUSIC: Cecil Taylor, Enter Evening (Alt. Take)]
Q: You hadn’t heard that up to now. What did you think?
AS: Well, sometimes alternate takes are not as interesting as the original takes. Sometimes you can have that problem, I think. Blue Note put out some alternate takes. But on this piece, I don’t thi