Every six months, when previous charges are dropped, I join anti-war activists in sit-down demonstrations. Early encounters with sexism and anti-semitism educated her about the way of the world and inspired her to include social consciousness in her music. There were, of course, jarring bumps along the way.
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Her jazz odyssey has taken her from formative years in Canada and Mexico (she's fluent in Spanish) to a mentorship and collaboration with free jazz saxophonist/composer Makanda Ken McIntyre. She played in smoke-filled joints like Joey's on Maple Avenue, Paul Brown's open-air Monday Night Jazz in Bushnell Park and the Hartford Jazz Society. But he really wanted to practice law and get into politics and litigate on behalf of labor and civil rights causes, which he did," she says.īy the 1980s, Trudy, who had studied as one of the few child students with Maria Luisa Faini (1917-2003), was transitioning from classical to jazz, seizing attention in the Hartford jazz club scene. We used to tease him that he would have done a lot better distributing Pepsi than Tru-Ade, which hardly anyone remembers today. "When he was first getting started and needed money to raise a family, he owned and operated a soda plant in New Britain, the Silver Seal Beverage Co., distributing Tru-Ade, a non-carbonated orange drink. Dad had a great sense of humor and was always taking on unpopular issues like police brutality and opposing the draft," Trudy Silver says. "There was always music, law and politics in the house and around the dinner table, and the topics were often combined.
Both Dan and Trudy's nephew, attorney Brian Silver, continue the family's progressive tradition as New Britain attorneys. One of Trudy's brothers, Jeffrey, plays guitar, and another, Dan Silver, is the former president of the prestigious First Amendment Lawyers Assoication. James, in 1972 ruled unanimously in Silver's and SDS's favor. Don James, and later by two lower federal courts, the federal district court in Hartford and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City. That claim was rejected by Central's then-president, Dr. He argued that SDS students had a right to form an organization at what was thenCentral Connecticut State College in New Britain. In his greatest legal triumph, Silver won a precedent-setting legal case on behalf of the left-wing Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) before the United States Supreme Court. Trudy's dad, Abraham Silver, was a New Britain attorney and a noted First Amendment advocate, who played cello when not, with his law partner Alvin Pudlin, defending progressive and, often, unpopular causes. "Armin was brilliant," she recalls, "and I just remember him kind of mumbling and davening over Beethoven and then suddenly pulling out a Coltrane album, and saying to me, 'Trudy, listen to this!'
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