Song for My Father, Horace Silver Sextet full album видео, альбом Horace Silver Sextet

 Horace Silver Sextet – ‘Song for My Father’ – Molfetta (Bari) Italy 1988  

► Personnel:

Horace Silver – piano

Andrew Wideman Bey (Andy Bey) – vocals

Ralph Michael Bowen – tenor sax

Vinnie Cutro – trumpet

Phillip Charles Bowler – bass

Carl Michael Burnett – drums

► Timings

00:00 – Presentation of song

02:23 – The song begins

04:10 – Andy Bey

05:45 – Horace Silver

13:19 – Vinnie Cutro

15:41 – Ralph Michael Bowen

21:37 – Andy Bey

► ‘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 song was dedicated to Silver's father, John Tavares Silva. "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".

 Horace Silver was one of the giants of jazz. 

Silver was born Sept. 2, 1928, in Norwalk, Conn. His father, John Tavares Silver, was an immigrant from Cape Verde, an island group off the west coast of Africa. Growing up Silver heard the folk music of his father's homeland and black gospel music of his mother's church. But it was listening to the Jimmie Lunceford band at a local amusement park when he was 11 years old that placed Silver squarely onto the path of music.

In 1949 tenor saxophonist Stan Getz offered a 21-year-old Silver his first professional job as a sideman and a chance to play with top-ranked musicians.

► After a year with Getz, Silver left and began freelancing, playing gigs with Coleman Hawkins, Lester “Prez” Young and Art Blakey. For recording sessions in 1954 and 1955 Silver brought together a quintet that included Art Blakey on drums, Hank Mobley on tenor sax, Kenny Dorham on trumpet and Doug Watkins on bass. The recording sessions produced two albums originally released as ‘The Horace Silver Quintet’ and gave birth to what would become the Jazz Messengers. Silver called them ‘most definitely one of the greatest groups I've ever had the privilege of recording with’.

He added vocal music, working extensively with singer Andy Bey.

► He was one of the creators of ‘Hard Bop’, co-founded the legendary ‘Jazz Messengers’ and brought jazz back to its funky, soulful, bluesy roots. Furthermore, he was one of the most prolific jazz composers. 

► As a bandleader, he was comparable to Art Blakey, Miles Davis and Betty Carter, in that getting a chance to play with him meant the ‘seal of approval’. As a pianist, his percussive attack, thundering left hand, aggressive comping, and clear, direct right hand were unmistakable. 

► Horace Silver has left us a huge body of compositions to play (everybody knows ‘Señor Blues’, ‘Song For My Father’, ‘Peace’, ‘Strollin’, 'Samba Caribbean' and ‘Nica's Dream’) as well as a huge discography to listen to.

► Horace Silver died on June 18, 2014.