Song for My Father

Artist: Horace Silver
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724349900226
EAN: 0724349900226
ASIN: B00000IL27

Release Date: 1999-04-20

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Tracks:

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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Customer Reviews:

Song for My Father.......2007-03-13

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.

everyone was doing it...but not like this.......2007-02-11

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.

Great music, terrible remastering.......2007-02-08

This is definitely a jazz classic, and with the advertised "24-bit remastering", not to mention that it is part of Blue Note's Rudy van Gelder series, I was ready for a sonic treat. However, it was obviously mastered too loud. Looking at the waveform with Cooledit, there's obivously a fair amount of peak clipping on the CD. What a shame to do this to such classic music.

Hammerin' Funk.......2006-04-18

Horace Silver has always been one of my favorite piano players. Though his styling isn't as distinct as chops of Monk, Horace got some Hammerin'Funk of his own. I've always felt that this album is where is talents have been showcased the best. The album opens with his very own brand of deceptively simple Funk. Yet if it's so simple why aren't there more piano players who sound so joyous and free as Horace does on this track. Que Pasa is a fine latin effort. It sounds almost genre defining. You wanna know what Latin Jazz is. It's Que Pasa! Finaly there's lonely woman. A bop classic that listens like a song with full lyric and all. Each time you revisit this song the lyrics are different but always carry a melancholy beauty.

Another Blue Note Classic.......2005-12-22

This is a great Horace Silver album. Actually this is a masterpiece as all songs in this set are nothing short of great.

The band is great. The writing and arranging skills of Horace Silver are very impressive. The sound quality is magnificent. Joe Henderson's solo on "Song for My Father" must be heard to be believed. It is one of the best sax solo's I have ever heard.

The whole album has such a lovely and soulful sound. This is definitely another Blue Note classic!

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