Song for My Father (album)

This article is about the album by Horace Silver. For the album by Graham Collier, see Songs for My Father.
Song for My Father
Studio album by
The Horace Silver Quintet
ReleasedEnd of January 1965[1]
RecordedOctober 31, 1963; January 28 and October 26, 1964
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
GenreHard bop
Length42:12 original LP
59:59 CD
LabelBlue Note
BST 84185
ProducerAlfred Lion
The Horace Silver Quintet chronology
Silver's Serenade
(1963) 		Song for My Father
(1965) 		The Cape Verdean Blues
(1965)
Alternative cover
RVG edition
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
DownBeat[6]

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."[7]

  1. ^ Billboard Feb 6 1965
  2. ^ Yanow, Scott (2011). "Song for My Father - Horace Silver". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1299. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 181. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  6. ^ DownBeat Review, February 25,1965, p. 29
  7. ^ Original liner notes by Leonard Feather