Song for My Father

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Song for My Father
Album by Horace Silver
Released	1964
Recorded	1963–1964
Genre	Jazz
Length	Re-release: 62:26
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Alfred Lion
Engineer	Rudy Van Gelder
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]]
Horace Silver chronology
Silver's Serenade (1963) |	Song for My Father (1964)	The Cape Verdean Blues (1965) |

Song for My Father is a 1964 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, 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 Silver, to whom the title song was dedicated.

"My mother was of Irish and Negro descent, my father of Portuguese origin. he was born on the island of Maio, one of the Cape Verde Islands" (Horace Silver, quoted in Leonard Feather's original liner notes)

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 2.1 Tracks 1–5 2.2 Tracks 6–10

[edit] Track listing

1. "Song for My Father" –7:15
2. "The Natives Are Restless Tonight" –6:08
3. "Calcutta Cutie" –8:28
4. "Que Pasa" –7:45
5. "The Kicker" –5:24
6. "Lonely Woman" –7:03

   The following tracks were added to various CD reissues:

7. "Sanctimonious Sam" –3:52
8. "Que Pasa" (trio version) –5:35
9. "Sighin' and Cryin'" –5:23
10. "Silver Treads Among My Soul" –3:50

(All compositions by Horace Silver except 5. Joe Henderson, 7. Musa Kaleem.

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Eaglewood Cliffs, New Jersey: 3, 6, 7, 8 — 31 October 1963; 9, 10 — 28 January 1964; 1, 2, 4, 5 — 26 October 1964.)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Tracks 1–5

• Horace Silver — piano
• Carmell Jones — trumpet
• Joe Henderson — tenor saxophone
• Teddy Smith — bass
• Roger Humphries — drums

[edit] Tracks 6–10

• Horace Silver— piano
• Blue Mitchell — trumpet
• Junior Cook — tenor saxophone
• Eugene Taylor — bass
• Roy Brooks — drums