Music CD - Horace Silver: Song for My Father

	Music CD: Song for My Father Artist: Horace Silver List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $6.97 Your Save: $ 5.01 ( 42% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
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Tracks: 1. Song For My Father 2. The Natives Are Restless Tonight 3. Calcutta Cutie 4. Que Pasa? 5. The Kicker 6. Lonely Woman 7. Sanctimonious Sam 8. Que Pasa? (Trio Version) 9. Sighin' And Cryin' 10. Silver Treads Among My Soul
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724349900226 Format: Original recording reissued Label: Blue Note Records Manufacturer: Blue Note Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blue Note Records Release Date: 1999-04-20 Studio: Blue Note Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Lost Treasure Found! Comment: 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 Woman. I moved out after less than a year and moved on with my life but for years after that I could not remember the name of the album or the artist but that song drifted in and out of my head all the time. Fast forward to 2008. I recently started listening to Jazz more frequently now that I am older and much wiser (39) and while getting my feet wet in the whole Jazz scene I naturally went with a known heavy weight to start with like Coltrane. Amazon recommended this Silver album when I was buying a Coltrane album and instantly I remembered the cover art! So for 11 years I have had this tune in my head and I finally found it by accident because of the unforgettable photo of his father! Thank you Mr. Silver for making this song, this album and for your entire collection, you are truly a musical Jazz genius and some how some way I plan to acquire your entire catalog! I also must thank my ex roommate and his uncle Mr. Joe McPhee from Poughkeepsie, NY, who is also an excellent jazz musician himself! (True story) Zaria from California Customer Rating: Summary: Surprisingly, this disappointed me... Comment: 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 my mood of the moment is at fault, or my choice to listen to it while driving instead of at home with earphones. Horace Silver is certainly a fine pianist, Joe Henderson a great sax artist, but overall, this album is just not my cup of tea. Customer Rating: Summary: a great jazz album. Comment: 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. Customer Rating: Summary: Song for My Father Comment: This is one of the goog works by Horace Silver, with a very good remastering. However , as I did when listening to the Cape Verdean Blues, I couldn't find clear influences of the music from Cape Vede isls, music I'm familiar with. Customer Rating: Summary: everyone was doing it...but not like this Comment: Horace Silver (b. 1928) is a skillful jazz pianist with a knack for composition, and this album highlights his genius for simplicity that has since become his trademark. The title track pays homage to Horace's Portuguese father from Cape Verde, John Silver. On "Song for My Father", Horace mixes up his own F-minor jazz piece with traditional Cape Verde and Brazilian carnival music. The result sounds a bit like bossa nova/jazz samba, which was popularized a year before on the Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto album of 1963. Everyone was doing it at this time. Personnel for tracks 1-6: Carmell Jones (trumpet), Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Horace Silver (piano), Teddy Smith (bass) and Roger Humphries (drums). Personnel for tracks 7-10 (not on original LP configuration): Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor sax), Horace Silver (piano), Gene Taylor (bass) and Roy Brooks (drums). Much of the flavor on this album works its way out from the influence of the title track, while "The Kicker" is a Joe Henderson composition. This Rudy Van Gelder 24-bit remaster sounds wonderful, though it is not necessary to upgrade from the 1990 edition if you are considering it. There aren't any extra materials, aside from new liner notes. The sound is great, but is comparable to the 1990 release. All in all I would purchase this edition only if you do not have the earlier reissue. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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