Song for My Father (album)
1965 studio album by The Horace Silver Quintet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the album by Horace Silver. For the album by Graham Collier, see Songs for My Father.
Song for My Father is a 1965 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label in 1965. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares Silver, to whom the title composition was dedicated. "My mother was of Irish and Negro descent, my father of Portuguese origin," Silver recalls in the liner notes: "He was born on the island of Maio, one of the Cape Verde Islands."[6]
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Released | End of January 1965[1] | |||
Recorded | October 31, 1963; January 28 and October 26, 1964 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs | |||
Genre | Hard bop | |||
Length | 42:12 original LP 59:59 CD | |||
Label | Blue Note BST 84185 | |||
Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
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AllMusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [3] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [4] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
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