Horace Silver - Song for My Father
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Artist: Horace SilverEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-04-20
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Song For My Father
- The Natives Are Restless Tonight
- Calcutta Cutie
- Que Pasa?
- The Kicker
- Lonely Woman
- Sanctimonious Sam
- Que Pasa? (Trio Version)
- Sighin' And Cryin'
- Silver Treads Among My Soul
Music reviews of Song for My Father
Music Review: This Silver is solid gold
Rating: 5 Stars
Before I got really serious about jazz, I'd read an article in the Wall Street Journal that suggested five "must have" jazz recordings. One of them was Blowin' the Blues Away by a guy I had never heard of, Horace Silver. (Like I said, I wasn't serious about jazz at the time.) I picked up Blowin' and found the work impressive and inspirational. Silver became one of my jazz beacons. Soon after, in order to make more informed jazz music purchases, I picked up The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Eighth Edition and set my sail by their "Core Collection", which included Blowin'. I noticed also their crown collection, which included this CD, so when I had the chance to pick this up for three bucks (music club closeout), I did. I have to say, SFMF is a really wonderful recording, and even with as much play as I've gotten out of Blowin', I think SFMF is going to be a "go to" disk for a long time. The Latin flavor is sensational, but delicate, managing to deftly balance the jazz aspects with the Latin influence without letting one sublimate the other. The bands' (there are two of them plus a trio) executions are fluid and flawless, and Silver's blues tinged piano is bright but inconspicuous throughout, a pivotal piece in the group that serves to drive the song down the road from the navigator's chair without grabbing the steering wheel. Every song is just delightful to listen to. As usual, the Rudy Van Gelder edition is clean and crisp, and as usual, Blue Notes provides original and updated liner notes with this edition, a plus that I've come to expect and always appreciate. The night before I first listened to this (although I'd heard some of the songs before), I had slept only two hours, and I was very drowsy and irritable after a twelve hour day at work when I put the CD on. I was sure I would just drift off to sleep anyway. But actually, as tired as I was, the music kept me interested and awake, as well as soothed and relaxed. I listened to it three times running. I daresay no other CD in my collection (nearly 200 jazz titles now) has ever done that. As far as I'm concerned, Silver takes the gold. This CD is great and will not disappoint any jazz fan, heavy or light.
Note also that the penguin jazz guide is now available in a ninth edition: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Ninth Edition
Description of Song for My Father
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.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
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
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