Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2012
- Recorded live in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 1968. Song for My Father was recorded in October 1964 and released on the Blue Note label. 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 Silva, to whom the title song 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." The album line-up differs from the Copenhagen musicians here.
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My Horace Silver moment came in the early 60's (my son, who in his own right was a natural reed player, just read my post and said, "Pops, you fucked up, it was back in the 60's not the 90's - which I initially typed) I was in high school living on West 100th street and continously listened to his " Song for my Father" album which was recently released. I had heard rumors that Horace lived nearby and one day as I was heading down on the elevator, it stops, I step back to make room for the the next rider and Mr. Silver walks in. After I regained my composure I began humming what else but, "Song for my Father". He twirls around with a huge smile and loud laugh and hugs me, almost lifting me off my feet. It may not have been memorable for Horace but to this day I cherish the connection. RIP Mr. Horace Silver. And thank you to all those who appreciated that moment.
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This is such a memorabIe and beautifuI story! Thank you for sharing!
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After THAT, you were high for the rest of the day. Good story.
Wow, what a beautiful story!!!
Bill Hardman on trumpet...fantastic solo. Bill is so underrated. He deserves much more recognition.
Billy Cobham is tearing it up on the drums! The whole quintet sounds absolutely amazing.
I heard this piece for the first time in the early 80s when I was 15 on a jazz music Radio program in Lagos Nigeria. It was dark in the room. I was alone lying in my bed. By the time it ended I had tears in my eyes. Everything about this piece is perfect. RIP Horace Silver
Horace Silver was light years ahead of his time.This piece Song for my father is simply incredible the composition it self the musician ship the complimentary interdependence Horace hitting the keys like the stacatto like sound of a machine
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How good are these tears .
Happened the same to me. Especially during the sax solo, it's awesome.
Truly
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RIP Horace Silver. He was a dear friend for over 34 years and one of the most enlightened and gifted souls on this planet. This man and his music, that poured from the depth of his heart, deserve to be celebrated.
I only got to met him a couple times in the 1980's at a record shop I worked at, but he turned out to be a huge influence in my musical life, and I'm grateful. He had the market cornered in cool, but was so very humble at the same time, true legend and sweet man.
Well said Lumina
I would give you a like but the like counter is at 69. so......
Horace was at the memorial for Eddie Harris ('96) it was cool to see him just walkin' around like a little king _ _ which he is !
These stories are so heart-touching. I feel so sad that he passed away. I want him to get resurrected so he makes more amazing music.
Stellar performance by the often under-celebrated Horace Silver with Bennie Maupin on tenor sax, Bill Hardman trumpet, Johnny Williams bass and Billy Cobham on drums. These old live performance videos are a treasure and very much appreciated.
Thanks helping to I.D. the members of his group. Some great and underrated players.
Thanks missing in description ❤
Sho'nuff
Horace is such a chill cat. So modest, and relaxed, no ego whatsoever. Brilliant composer, and a fine pianist
You can listen to it for ages....
Brilliant RIP Horace silver!
All business. Love it too
He always seemed such a gentle,kind & somewhat shy human being
Well my father would have been celebrating his 75'th birthday today.
So pops, this one's for you.
That double time bossa groove always kills me, and the way Billy just rides it like nothing!
I loved it!!
One of the most significant jazz performances ever. It's difficult to accept that Denmark and other European countries were so far more advanced in appreciating American jazz than the country where it originated.
I agree. As I sit here listening here in the United States. My Father has been ill over the last year. This song came to mind. I only saw Horace Silver once at a Jazz festival here. It's been about 35 years since I toured Europe as a young man. Music took me there. Playing saxophone, I visited 7 countries in 7 weeks. I learned of Denmark's love for Jazz when I discovered Jan Gabarek, Keith Jarrett, and other ECM artists. I would like to visit there someday.
It’s partly due to the European classical music tradition. I think if you grow Ip listening to classical music and you’ve got soul, jazz is a natural fit.
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Unfortunately that's the minor reason. The major reason is that the color of their skin was the wrong color for so very many Americans back then. Places they couldn't stay, venues they couldn't book. A sad indictment indeed. Musicians and music lovers didn't care about anything other than if you could play. White musicians would hang out, listen, and jam with black musicians. Took some time to get these cats the recognition they deserved. So glad to see this group play
Same happens with all the latin jazz subgenres. Are more popular in Europe and USA jazz escene than Latin American 🤷🏻♂️ . It is being said that nobody is prophet in his own country.
That's common. It's not that other countries are more into jazz, blues, rockabilly, etc than America, it's that the people who appreciate this music in the US live in pockets. There are more Horace Silver records sold in the United States than Denmark. Just not per capita.
Maybe the greatest jazz tune ever! What a treat to see it live!
Bennie Maupin on tenor sax. Bill Hardman trumpet, Johnny Williams bass and Billy Cobham drums.
Love Bill stone Hardman's trumpet. He was a friend to me when I toured withe Messengers in the 70's.
Thanks for the info on the musicians.
I only recognized Billy Cobham.
@@mtd2172 Wow, May I ask your name, and possibly what steps you took in the beginning of your jazz career to spark connections with people like the Messengers and just become a part of that community? I'm in high school and It would be a dream come true if one day I could tour with a group so influential as this.
Thanks!
Thank you brother 🙏
Glad my Dad introduced me to jazz when i was 8 iam 62 now love you daddy
Kathy Hayes
Mine too, as well as other genre. But I've always found Jazz as the most truly expressive.(my opinion)
I only wish I had stuck with the piano. But I was jealous of my friends out playing ball when I had to, no, needed to practice. So sad. And I'm 63 now. Still an artist though, portrait artist.
Kathy Hayes
Same here came up on it still in love..now 67 years old
Kathy Hayes salute to that!!
In my case it was my mother. In India we'd listen to Voice of America in the early hours of the morning. I am now 86. Eric Clapton dedclared that Jazz musicians are like gods.
My oldest brother was 8 years older than me. I would lay in my bed at night and hear Dave Brubeck and Oscar Peterson emanating through his bedroom door. He passed away 25 years ago. There are so many times I wish I could share and discuss music like this with him.
If musicians were compensated on skill alone, these men would be billionaires.
+Pitt the Elder Well you put that about as brilliantly s anyone could, excellent comment.
+Pitt the Elder I like that. My I quote you?
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RUclips is a public forum, I would argue that you don't need my permission. Of course.
Actually you have to see it in the contrary way, the worst musicians are billionaires in stead of these genius!
truer wordz have never been spoken. but instead yu have Madonna, shitney spears, along with the likez of Justin beber who along with all the forementioned r just a few of the biggest jokez 2 make it big. which if they all had Dark skin wouldn't have made it that big!!!!
Much love and respect for the musicians and all the listeners caught in this moment.
Love how Horace doesn't just comp. He drives the whole groove like a boss.
Any man that dedicates a song to his father is great in my book
Pappa Was a Rolling Stone?
@@jcajacob he wasn't talking about that kind of song. You'll be surprised how many of us human beings had and have wonderful fathers.
If you are a musician and had a good father, why not dedicating him a song?
For the rest of us, is Papa was a Rolling Stone.
This is the ultimate long jam song. A dozen people can take a solo. Two dozen. The changes carry the song on forever,
Can someone play so perfect ? With all that rhythm. Unbelievable.
Listening to this tune at Maio island Cabo Verde where his father was born really makes a difference and one feels why he was so magic
One of the greatest jazz songs ever, and it's so cool to see them actually playing it live.
I never get tired of hearing this. I particularly like the trumpet solo from Bill Hardman. He was just another in a very long list of underappreciated talents. But he could blow with the best of 'em. I'd put him against Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, and Donald Byrd any ol' day of the week and feel fairly certain that he'd come out on top. No one could outplay him.
My father played this song a lot.
Thanks Daddy.
I love you.
I love what you can discover when you fall down a hole on RUclips. This is gorgeous.
an unplanned trip to everywhere....wonderful...
@@darlenelongo8589 exactly!
you fall down and never want to get up!
Same here. It's a real keeper. Dreamy. Intelligent. Hip.
I agree
What a performance by all but Horace is on a different mission, absolute perfection in every way. RIP 🙏 Horace Silver our Jazz legend ❤
Genuine masterpiece...I also play in tribute to my Father, Granfathers, and Great Grandfathers. Much respect to the Legendary Horace Silver. Rest In Peace and Power to the artist and them all.🙏
CLASSIC THANK YOU
The Song that Inspired. Steely Dan to create Ricky don't lose that number ... THANK YOU SO VERY KINDLY HORACE.. We Love and miss you
Interesting! Where did you read that? I'd like to know more. Big fan of Steely Dan. Thanks.
Betty...you are absolutely right, and it also played a huge role with Stevie's (Wonder) hit "Don't you worry about a thing"....both artists paid homage to the great Horace Silver
Silver's survivors should sue. Listening to that intro, it's a complete ripoff.
@@fredtolliver4798 Definitely. When I heard this for the first time, I was around 9 years old. I had just began saxophone. I had annoyed my parents playing a plastic recorder. I could play by ear. I guess I'm replying to you because the man who introduced me to traditional jazz and this last name was also Tolliver. I asked him who stole this song Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, or Horace Silver? He said Horace Silver wrote it and the Steely Dan and Stevie Wonder songs were inspired by Song For My Father. I've been blessed to see all 3 artists perform live, meeting Stevie Wonder before his concert.
"Rikki Don't Lose that Number" wasn't inspired by Silver's "Song for My Father." It was composed in homage to Horace Silver with deepest respect and admiration
Real Musicians play Real Music....This is the sound that last a lifetime. Thank you for posting.
Exactly
RIP Horace Silver . I loved your music
Mickey Carroll
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I'm a relatively new fan of Horace Silver, at least ten years! I really love this song, if my dad was alive today I would dedicate and play this for him. He would love it!
Blessings
This song is just as hip as it needs to be!
Like Blakey, Horace Silver discovered promising young players and brought them along. This is my favorite.
which members did he discover here?
@@Harchit23 to my knowledge, the one with Silver, was the first big gig for Billy Cobham.
Horace wrote this for his father and mine. Miss you Dad.
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Hey, im a Jazz singer and i never get bored with this tune, so many nuances, what Fabulous ❤❤❤❤❤❤
So happy I desired to know what the 50's era in jazz music sounded like and came across Horace Silver. RIP Mr. Silver, you left behind a treasure trove. Sept 2019.
I used to own a copy of the album, it was destroyed in an apartment fire, (lost most of what we had) the almighty kept our lives safe and sound, a true blessing, we can never be denied of receiving.
Same here, my father raised me on jazz & WSDM radio in Chicago. This is our song! We have others but this is the one he communicates to me most often from the grave to tell me he's listening & here for me! It turns up at the most unexpected moments, in grocery stores, elevators, rare ocassions on the radio, doctors offices on the muzak. My father was a great drummer and taught me intonation when I sing. He was one of a kind and the life of the party. I miss him so. I feel closer to him whenever this song pops up! Great musicianship & interpretation!
Horace Silver - piano
Bennie Maupin - tenor sax.
Bill Hardman - trumpet
Johnny Williams - bass
Billy Cobham - drums
thanks so much for furnishing this personnel listing -- just something I've been noticing, Silver is playing bass with his left hand through head, when does bass take over?
play in heaven... R.I.P Horace. Thank you for your music!
saw him perform on jazz mobile in harlem nyc rip
This song I grew up listening to it without my dad paying attention but as I grew up as an adult I would hear it and said wow what a amazing dedication to a father dad this is for you Jimmy Taylor.
All jazz lovers today its a day play this piece it is so lovely it shows that all father's of this world are blessed take care hohaa
You see Horace sweating over the keys? Tell me he isn't putting 125% into this tune! Great group!
Pat Gannon That and stage lights were a lot hotter back then.
Cooking, they called it.
True indeed👌
YES.... so totally
Absolutely!
One of my favorite pianists...the man, the legend...and one of his best songs...brilliant...
This man on piano is sweating his SOUL out, someone get him a drink!
Just driving down the road, looking for new music. Found this. Can’t quit playing it. Genius. Touches my soul.
this was the first album I bought with my own money as a kid in 1964, I am now 73 how time fly but this still sounds great and I'd buy it now if I did not have it. Wow take a moment and just listen to it, how could you not get into it or let it get into you ? I miss this level of jazz and musicians
73 huh great...4 years later 1968 this album of mine would float from one Atlanta BPP site to another; helping to somewhat soothe the souls for those of us under tremendous political pressure. Worn, but somewhere still in my collection. What memories this bring forth.
Yes one of my favorite
@@reneebrown7114, I was listening to remastered tracks of Horace Silver and realized that the quality and quantity of music that these jazz musicians produced despite those hard and difficult times were amazing because it was done for the love of music and not the love of money, and the music isn't time dated I am often surprised at how fresh a piece sound and then to find out it is as old or older than I am.
James Brown's Band does a cover of this on the instrumental album James Brown plays today and yesterday. It is very well done but nobody can beat the ORIGINAL!
@@tonyjrify Thanks I am a JB fan but did not know that he recorded this tune I'll have to check it out, I listen to JAZZ24 and they often play things JB did that I have never heard before.
This was called "Modern Jazz" back in the day. My favorite Horace Silver tune.
This has to be one of the liveliest, coolest jazz numbers I have heard.
lifesoboring1 There's a wonderful l of Miles Davis playing IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU with John Coltrane's on tenor sax and Red Garland on piano. Beautiful!😍
I still cry over this song. 😭
It carries emotion.
Will never forget our meeting ❣
Magnificent performances by all in the group.
"...dedicated to my Dad." That brought a tear or two here. Remembering my father just now.
If I had a nickel for each time I've listened to this song over the years... I'd have a pretty good size bank roll.
Thanks Horace - and RUclips
me too
This song will live forever.
Growing up in Jersey this was the BOMB! My pops would come to Jersey from Puerto Rico and play this tune
What a classic! What an amazing genius of simplicity in art Horace Silver created in his playing. Sometimes less is better. Something we all need to remember.
The phrases over an over again are so delightful.. and that careful balance of the left and right hand.. the wandering bassline...
So very well said.
Simply delicious indeed!
Less is more :)
@@TheAnetmusik Yes, it is, I agree!!🎶🎶🌟⭐🌟💞🎶🎶
The great Billy Cobham on drums.
THAT BASS.....jesus....THAT BASS
QUE VIVA PANAMA....BILLY
Woah i see it. So young here! Later on he collaborated with another great: George Duke. Sadly also missed dearly..! ❤🎼🙏🏻
Say what?!
Roger Humphries ....i think, he was the drummer?!?
This in my view is (by far) the best recording of this ubiquitous HS offering - it's more focused and delivers in spades. Brilliant!
Horace Silver the legend... this recording "Song for My Father" was the essential tune for
all jazz enthusiasts in the late 60's and beyond. This video shows Mr. Silver's actual sweat
falling on the piano keys. Silver's intensity while playing was unmatched. IT DOES NOT GET BETTER THAN THIS!!
Jim Neely And still Strong
Jim Neely So great!
I'm still alive because of this type of music jazz
I'm crying
2023 and Horace Silver is still king!❤
Still listening in Aug 2019! This performance is absolutely amazing! The Essence, Soul, Passion and Madness of Jazz Music.
We MET Horace silver, in Miami, Superbowl week,be was playing in a upscale restaurant/CLUB moved TO California, his musical genuine WAS in full display, GREAT MEMORIES MARVELOUS conversations, SONGS FOR MY father, so beautiful.....PS RIP IN the AFTERLIFE.....
What a quintet...smooth, deeply technical and so easy to listen....this is marvelous...one of my best ever
As a drummer I'd simply like to point out the savagery that Billy Cobham lays down when they jump into double time
I saw that too... so awesome and exciting!
Every time I see Cobham play I'm reminded that I have no business calling myself a drummer!
billy cobham an underrated genius
No matter what style Billy plays it's just dynamite
Incredible
Wonderfull music and musicians....
A tune any father would be proud of. Salute.
Here is a fine example of people listening to each other. Refreshingly perfect.
Mr. Modesty, no pyrotechnics, no highbrow deconstructions, just plain simple joy. Every note pregnant with life.
Dedicated to my father David (Dave) Royce.Bond whom I Larry Cary,Sr
Inherited my passion and love for jazz and to appreciate all music jz blues and beyond/fishing and hunting with a passion i truly honor this man .i become the man that I am through his genes, and my love for him he will rest in peace, for he will live on in my music and mind, every day every, every thing i do,i can't help but to think of David Bond's
Here's why my love for jazz/cooking/fishing, reading my love for my children and grandchildrens
And you know my wife Peggy,c . Cary
"pregnant with life" word!
Kenneth, that is beautifully stated and wonderfully apt. Your comment helps me understand why I have him way up on high along with another favorite "just do it right" performer, Bill Withers.
Yes, pregnant with life, what a phrase!
when was the last time you saw pyrotechnics at a jazz show bruh?
I love Horace Silver - a jazz giant and an elegant gentleman
To be taken on a musical trip through Brazil by Horrace Silver and band is to be lost in the moment
I think of my father
Are you brazilian?
No I am not Brazilian
I dream of Brazil
My absolute favorite jazz standard. Amazing!
I listen to this every few months and It gets better every time! Absolutely incredible!!!
I met Horace Silver in 2002 at a place called Jazz Alley in San Diego, CA. Jazz Alley was having a tribute night for him with many musicians performing his tunes. My wife at the time was a hostess at Jazz Alley and when she mentioned the Horace Silver tribute, I just had to go see it.
And he was in the club!! I had to walk up to him and shake his hand. He didn't play this night. He couldn't play any more with the arthritis.....
Thank you for sharing...cool encounter
THANKS POPS FOR THE LOVE ~ PEACE OF SOUL
Bossa Nova has influenced many jazz musicians. Samba-Jazz is a perfect mix when you want to drop some tropical taste on the rhythm. This music is eternal as it brings the family-romantic sentiment. The Band is perfect!
An honor to be brazilian and hear that this song was inpired on a trip to my country! Greetings! Great tune!
Brenno Brasil eh foda!
@@ArnonJr sem os portugueses, de nada seria. o pai do cara era português e o meu tb. e o teu? hahaha
I think that "Song for my father" a version of "Wave" by jobim
@@gilregev4823 This the brazilian MPB, a mixture of jazz and our samba. Check out João Gilberto, Sivuca, Paulinho Nogueira. You will see that they have their similarities.
great great.
This song reminds me of my father, James P. Burke. He introduced me to Jazz. He taught me how to listen to each instrument and how music could soothe your soul. This is definitely a "Song For My Father". Thanks Horace Silver for this excellent song.
Mr. Horace Silver I love your music wherever you are.
I cry with joy when I hear this tune, reminding me of one of the most revolutionary an beautiful musical times in American history!-CB
Absolutely brilliant! better than the album recording.
Too fast.
richardvilseck
Well, it is faster, but it still swings like crazy so I don't have a problem. If you want to hear a classic that is way to fast in live performance, check out Take Five, live at Carnegie Hall. St. Germain actually used the intro as a sample for their Tourist album.
So great to see Silver actually playing. I’ve listened to him for years but just found this video. He really gets into it and has such amazing, long and slender fingers. One of the greatest jazz masters. His music will never grow old and his compositions are now part of the canon. He was a gift to the world.
Bassist is so chill - a rock on which a ton of soul rests
Oh mah brotha, Testify!!!! I can’t get enough of this!
Best gift ever. Happy Father’s Day❤️
I'm not primarily a jazzer, but I am an "appreciator" of any music with guts and soul. This song has always appealed to me, along with Cannonball Adderly's stuff, Sonny Rollins "St Thomas" et al. It seems to me that when bop took a left turn from singable melodies and dance tempos, to create music for solely for "musicians", Jazz cut off its nose to spite its face, and it has never regained popular appeal. I hear that today less than 1% of public buys jazz, that is a pity. America's non-commercial musics are often the most heartfelt, I find. I'd like to see jazz increase in our public consciousness.
Well, it DOES get better, but this is right up there with the best!
Let's gonna blowin’ the blues away!!
MrMusicguyma as (somewhat of) a musician I find the fact that there's a whole genre dedicated to my "kind" very interesting. This "musician's music" been very important for my improvement and also, most of the time, quite fun listening.
Also I dont think it's strictly for musicians, just because it's sometimes not too melodic doesn't mean the "average" man cannot understand it. I give much credit to non-musicians... They can appreciate the more "hard core" jazz no less then any pro.
the music rapidly evolved but it was Black classic music and did not get the star treatment from this white dominated society, the masses have been fed so much dreck they cannot appreciate real music.
But the public (and commercial powers such as radio networks who could have disseminated more kinds of music) cut off its their own nose with the lack of support for jazz, and for music education in general, thereby losing much chance for the public to develop a better 'ear' for listening. Contrast that with many European countries, Taiwan, Japan, etc. There is a great deal of jazz (not all) that you might consider more abstract than the above hard bop, but which nevertheless has guts and soul. It just has more complex forms, harmonies, and soloing. There are many masterpieces of classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries that might to the general public be in the same dilemma but which received enough support to be preserved. There is room for both.
1950's jazz era was so awesome. It was a game changer of what jazz music is sounding like today. No more bebop and this is what we have now-a-days. Love it !!! I still love the bebop era also, 1930's and 1940's big band. Horace Silver was awesome and his band playing with him.
Wow! This dude never say when!!! Bravo Horace Silvers! 👏
RIP
I ran across the LP mentioned above in my collection about a year ago. This remains one of my favorite Jazz tunes. I was only 19 years when I purchased that LP. I'm 72 years old now. I only found the live 1968 Copenhagen performance on RUclips about 8 months ago. What a fantastic performance. Most notable is the increased tempo in the Copenhagen performance and the incredible drummer Billy Cobham who drove the hell out of the tune in the Copenhagen performance.
Wow ... this song is amazing ... now that I know the history I appreciate it even more ...
This is one of my all time favorites ♡♡♡♡♡♡☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
I cannot thank you enough. THIS is for my father- Cody.♥ My Dad. He understands when I cannot explain myself. He feels when IA cannot explain my own feelings. He KNOWS before I tell him anything. How? I dont know.
My father.
My heart.
My hero.
My angel..
CODY
My Da'.
BLESS and LOVE and PEACE be unto you.
Our wise heart.
I have always thanked my brothers for introducing me and being musically inclined to being musicians themselves. I also was introduced to many musicians. LOVE THEM ALL.
These are examples of special humans.
+Steve Kosvic
They don't make them like this any more........what happen?
+Gray Light The gigs dried up starting with the Reagan administration. I know because I was a working musician on the Blues and Jazz circuits starting in the late 60's and it declined rapidly by late 70's, early 80's. Black men were marginalized for "new" DJ's, sampling and autotune.
+W. Roberts
Your wrong....This had nothing to do with Reagan and or sampling.....In the 70's and 80's...you had the ground braking, Bitches Brew that born Return to Forever- Weather Report- Head Hunters Herbie- Cobham..Alan Holdsworth-Tony Williams Lifetime.......The record labels with no support for jazz and low IQs within the general public.......Just like Rap with the likes of kanye west and low IQs has destroyed any good young James Brown.....up and coming musician or jazz people......Rap has destroyed more good musicians than anything else......alone with low IQs that the likes kanye west .....Sorry.......its true...But no accounting for good taste and also this Horace post is its black and white and the glow of the cool 1950s was still in the air.....in the 1960s......by the 1970s the cool jazz of the 1950s was gone and low IQs started in with labels and people and disco was around the corner..........growing into low IQ kanye west drones we have today.
Jazz chordr are inspirathonal, derivitive. And for Steely Dan to lift the bars off the intro ,is paying hommage.
Steve Kosvic special ones, chosen by the Creator
It is one of most intensive piece I have ever heard. It wet my eyes.
One of the first jazz pieces I ever heard, which left an indelible mark deep to me; this, when I was in jr. high school, already drawn to jazz, and this title never left my consciousness -- Song for My Father... listeners adored Horace Silver so much, a time when I got onto kats like Jackie Maclean and so many others, stretching from jazz of the 1930's and onward. Time would be some years later when I got onto Charlie Parker -- but he was Maclean, a Bird protege, from whom I first heard a saxophone speak in ways and terms that one just does not hear anywhere but in Jazz, and somehow I understood every word he was saying! Then holio I hear Charlie Parker and boom -- my ears were born again.
Man, this version is remarkably cool and so swinging. Horace's choices on his solo are melodically understated and rhythmically influenced. I met him in Brazil, when working at the Free Jazz Festival in the late eighties. I was his liaison and interpreter. Free was a brand of cigarettes that sponsored the festival. It ran for over ten years. Horace is one of the most kind, gentle, and spiritual people I have ever met. Upon my return to Los Angeles, where I resided, Horace invited me to his home in Malibu to present to me a letter of recommendation which he wrote. I have it to this day. Can someone please identify the horn players? They are brilliant!
Joe Henderson on sax
Who I d on trumpet
Wow, this is the extended version. This is the first time I’ve heard it. Terrific!
I listen to this and think about my dad. I tear up. Miss him so much.
that is so correct needed more time with him dedicated to all of our dadies
Wow, what a tremendous version. Horace, RIP! Great composer, band leader, player.
Great comment and great name (Connell)