Song for My Father (album)
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| Allmusic |  [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [3] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  [4] |
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."[5]
Music
The composition "Song for My Father" is probably Silver's best known.[6]
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.[7]
The album was identified by Scott Yanow in his Allmusic essay "Hard Bop" as one of the 17 Essential Hard Bop Recordings.[8]
Track listing
All compositions by Horace Silver, except where noted.
- "Song for My Father" – 7:17
- "The Natives Are Restless Tonight" – 6:09
- "Calcutta Cutie" – 8:31 [9]
- "Que Pasa" – 7:47
- "The Kicker" (Joe Henderson) – 5:26
- "Lonely Woman" – 7:02
Bonus tracks on CD reissue:
- "Sanctimonious Sam" (Musa Kaleem) – 3:52
- "Que Pasa (Trio Version)" – 5:38
- "Sighin' and Cryin'" – 5:27
- "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, 6-10
- Horace Silver – piano
- Blue Mitchell – trumpet exc. tracks 6, 8
- Junior Cook – tenor saxophone exc. tracks 6, 8
- Gene Taylor – bass
- Roy Brooks – drums
References
- ^ Billboard Feb 6 1965
- ^ Yanow, Scott (2011). "Song for My Father - Horace Silver | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1299. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 181. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ Original liner notes by Leonard Feather
- ^ Keepnews, Peter (June 18, 2014). "Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead". The New York Times.
- ^ Song for My Father at AllMusic
- ^ Yanow, S. Hard Bop accessed December 7, 2009.
- ^ This title lists the wrong musicians on the album notes