Song for My Father (album)

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Released End of January 1965 Artist The Horace Silver Quintet Producer Alfred Lion Awards Grammy Hall of Fame		Label Blue NoteBST 84185 Release date January 1965 Genre Jazz

Recorded October 31, 1963; January 28 and October 26, 1964 Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs Length 42:12 original LP59:59 CD Song for My Father(1965) The Cape Verdean Blues(1965) Similar The Sidewinder, The Cape Verdean Blues, The Jody Grind, Moanin', Blue Train

Horace silver song for my father

Song for My Father is a 1965 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label in 1965. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares Silva, to whom the title song was dedicated. "My mother was of Irish and Negro descent, my father of Portuguese origin," Silver recalls in the liner notes: "He was born on the island of Maio, one of the Cape Verde Islands."

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Music

The composition "Song for My Father" is probably Silver's best known.

Reception

Allmusic reviewer Steve Huey praised the album:

One of Blue Note's greatest mainstream hard bop dates, Song for My Father is Horace Silver's signature LP and the peak of a discography already studded with classics...it hangs together remarkably well, and Silver's writing is at his tightest and catchiest.

The album was identified by Scott Yanow in his Allmusic essay "Hard Bop" as one of the 17 Essential Hard Bop Recordings.