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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724349900226 Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered Label: Blue Note Records Manufacturer: Blue Note Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blue Note Records Release Date: April 20, 1999 Sales Rank: 4408 Studio: Blue Note Records
Album Description: A visit to Brazil prompted Horace Silver's interest in his Portuguese roots and led to the magnificent "Song For My Father," his most enduring composition. This album also introduced his new band with Joe Henderson and Carmell Jones and features the classic band with Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook.
Amazon.com essential recording: Since its title track provided the inspiration for Steely Dan's "Rikki, Don't Lose That Number," Song for My Father has become known as the jazz recording that launched a thousand bad rock records. Yet whatever pretensions Steely Dan and their legion of desperately hip imitators had shouldn't be laid at pianist Horace Silver's door: this is one of Blue Note's warmest and most satisfying collections--and that's saying something. A pioneer of the hard-bop style, which combined gospel and R&B with jazz, Silver authored many outstanding compositions, including not just "Song for My Father," but "Opus de Funk," "Nica's Dream," "Senor Blues," and "The Preacher." His quintets, which featured tenor sax and trumpet, spotlighted such up-and-coming talents as trumpeters Woody Shaw, Art Farmer, and Donald Byrd. On Song for My Father, the band features tenorman Joe Henderson, who contributed one of his own signature tunes, "The Kicker." Along with the strong quintet work, the album includes a fine trio feature for the pianist in "Lonely Woman." --Fred Goodman
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Still fine wine
I originally purchased this album in 1964. It was one of my favorites then and it still is. Silver's hard charging jazz is a benchmark piece for this period. Excellent solo work by Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook are excellent.
I feel that this is a "must have" album for fans of jazz in the 50's and 60's.
Rating: - Joe Henderson's tenor Solo on the Title track will haunt you
One of the most beautiful Jazz albums one is ever likely to own. It is "vintage Silver," backed up by his favorite side men, including the incomparable Joe Henderson on tenor, who at the time was just hitting his "post-Coltrane" stride.
The centerpiece of the album is of course the famous Portuguese flavored song (Silver has Portuguese roots) and title piece, "Song for my father" (Cantiga para meu pao).
It is almost religious in its haunting repetitious vamp. And one is unlikely to ever hear a more beautiful, subtler, solo than that crafted by Henderson on this track. ... Read More
Rating: - Lost Treasure Found!
In 1996 I moved back East in with a friend whose uncle was a Jazz musician and also an avid Jazz collector as well. At the time I was an up and coming rapper and Hip-Hop producer looking for samples to make and re-create new music so I would sit and listen to his uncle's mint condition 33's for hours and hours everyday for months on end collecting snippets from his collection for re-recording at a later date. One day I stumbled upon this album and it literally changed my life! The title track is great, I love the whole album too but the one that stuck in my head for years was the slow song, Lonely ... Read More
Rating: - Surprisingly, this disappointed me...
Perhaps there was just too much "hype" involved, but the recording leaves me a bit cold. I love classic jazz from the end of WW II to the Vietnam era, and I own most of the highest regarded releases from those 20 years. This was one I did not get around to buying until last month. I just could not get emotionally involved in any of the tracks, or compelled to hit repeat several times, the way I felt with "Kind of Blue" or "Something Else" or "Mingus Ah Um" or "Bill Evans Live at the Village Vanguard" or "Blue Train" and so many other beloved old records by the masters of mid-20th century jazz. Perhaps ... Read More
Rating: - a great jazz album.
i have met people who actually live without this album. whenever i think about that, i always shake my head in wonder. i don't know how they do it.
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