Horace Silver - Song for My Father
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Artist: Horace SilverEdition: Music CD
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
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Free Music Review: Joe Henderson's tenor Solo on the Title track will haunt you
Hit: 5 Stars
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. Its beauty is almost "stealth-like" in the way it creeps up on you. It begins innocently enough and then builds into a subdued but violent crescendo, and then dies away as if nothing ever happened: all done without the classical musical fireworks, just the facts man. Amen
I had the opportunity to meet Henderson off stage at Blues Alley just to tell him how much that one solo meant to me and to the Jazz world. He understood and appreciated the compliment.
Five Stars
Song for My Father Poster
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 GoodmanA 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.
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