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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 Note BST 84185

Release date
  
January 1965

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
October 31, 1963; January 28 and October 26, 1964

Studio
  
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Length
  
42:12 original LP 59:59 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."

Contents

Horace silver quintet song for my father


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.

Track listing

All compositions by Horace Silver, except where noted.

  1. "Song for My Father" – 7:17
  2. "The Natives Are Restless Tonight" – 6:09
  3. "Calcutta Cutie" – 8:31
  4. "Que Pasa" – 7:47
  5. "The Kicker" (Joe Henderson) – 5:26
  6. "Lonely Woman" – 7:02

Bonus tracks on CD reissue:

  1. "Sanctimonious Sam" (Musa Kaleem) – 3:52
  2. "Que Pasa (Trio Version)" – 5:38
  3. "Sighin' and Cryin'" – 5:27
  4. "Silver Treads Among My Soul" – 3:50

Recorded on October 31, 1963 (#3, 6, 7, 8); January 28, 1964 (#9-10); October 26, 1964 (#1, 2, 4, 5).

Personnel

Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5

  • Horace Silver – piano
  • Carmell Jones – trumpet
  • Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
  • Teddy Smith – bass
  • Roger Humphries – drums

    • Tracks 3, 6, 7, 9, 10

  • Horace Silver – piano
  • Blue Mitchell – trumpet exc. tracks 6, 8
  • Junior Cook – tenor saxophone exc. tracks 6, 8
  • Gene Taylor – bass
  • Roy Brooks – drums

    • Track 8

  • Horace Silver – piano
  • Gene Taylor – bass
  • Roy Brooks – drums

    • Songs

    1Song for My Father7:18
    2The Natives Are Restless Tonight6:11
    3Calcutta Cutie8:31

    References

    Song for My Father (album) Wikipedia
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