Conrad Silvert was a jazz and art critic who died when he was 34 years
old. My high school graduation book has a Conrad Silvert in it, and I
am trying to find out if he was my classmate. He would have been born
in Philadelphia around 1947 and attended Central High School from 1961
to 1965. Is this jazz critic the same Conrad Silvert I went to school
with?

Hello mfuasi-ga,

I believe that this was the same Conrad Silvert who was your classmate
in high school.

Conrad Silvert apparently died in March 1982.  He produced a concert
on February 22, 1982, and died about three weeks later, at age 34.

"Jazz at the Opera House: Conrad Silvert Presents" [listing date of
concert]
Jaco Pastorius Page in Japan
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/3views/home/jacopage/library/dscgraph/operah00.html

"Footprints: The Original Batman: Wayne Shorter Remembers Miles
Davis", by Krystian Brodacki for Jazz Forum 1/1992 (vol. 132), pp24-29
[near bottom of page; mentioning that Conrad Silvert died at age 34,
"about three weeks later"]
Miles & More [Thomas Hönisch]
http://home.t-online.de/home/thomas.hoenisch/footprin.html

"Re: Jazz at the Opera House?!", posting by Michael Fitzgerald
(2002-02-01)
<rec.music.bluenote>
Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=37gm5uc2h2baj2p4tld8dgs4mple0htc32%404ax.com

Since Conrad Silvert was 34 when he died in March 1982, he was born
between March 1947 and March 1948.  I have found no information on
where Conrad Silver went to high school, but the timing (along with
the unusual name) seems too much to be just coincidence.

I hope that this information is helpful.

- justaskscott-ga


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