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A hard bop/funky latin jazz magnum opus by a true musician.
This is a jazz classic I rate as possibly one of the top 10 jazz albums ever recorded--right along side Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue" and Coltrane's "A Love Supreme". Silver pioneered what was known as hard bop some years after playing in the Stan Getz band and that was followed by some great recordings with Lou Donaldson and Art Blakey. Perhaps striking to some present day musicians, Silver and his contemporaries composed (ie, with pencil and blank paper sheet music) many, if not all, of his music...an anomaly to many of those who record music in today's recording industry...the result of which is, well, the music that truly endures. "Song For My Father" is tops, in my opinion, of his Blue Note Records years. Silver is an American master whose entire body of work deserve some kind of great honoring--I mean much, much more than my feeble Amazon.com raves. Anyway, the title track has that infectous neo-bossa-funky-nova rhythm that is hard to get out your mind once you've h!eard it--mercy! It takes you through a musical journey that'll have you punching the replay button just so you can feel the nuances of the musicmanship--"Calcutta Cutie", to me, is reminescent, somehow of an earlier tune, "Doodlin"(I am, however, into stuff like Zen and Synchronicity, but that is neither here nor now)-- both, in my opinion, are great. Amazon.com shoppers cannot go wrong with purchasing this recording. And that, my friends, is the sanctimonious truth!

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A Jewel For His Father...And Anyone
Horace Silver was one of those postwar jazzmen who belied the idea that you had to blast off into nether-netherland to make jazz. But he also put the lie to the idea that making your music accessible was equal to making it somewhere between limp and listless. Not for nothing did Silver and his fellow hard boppers from the mid-1950s (Art Blakey in particular) make a conscious effort to yank the roots back into the music; these men knew what they were doing and damn near prevented jazz from getting too hip for its own britches, most likely because they seem to have made a fetish out of keeping it swinging.

Still, "Song For My Father" is a set for anyone's music library, even one who isn't disposed ordinarily to jazz. The critic who says the thousand and one subsequent bad rock albums trying to get hipped to the jazz that were inspired by this album and especially its warm title cut has an excellent point, but "Song For My Father" would stand out as Silver's unquestioned (almost; it's really hard to put "Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers" in the back seat, after all) masterpiece even if no one had decided to rip off the title track's insinuating bass line or otherwise wring its clever leavening of Brazilian rhythm with harder Carribbean percussive. The group sounds so warm and probing yet so bloody danceable throughout that, when you're finished with it, you may have a hard time getting the people sharing it with you to stop dancing. No one wastes a note or a percussive; no one sees a space as an abomination; no one trips over another; and, there is a remarkable sympatico between the musicians that few enough ensembles achieve, never mind make into an art.

The album is, of course, far more than its luminous title track; the Silver group rollicks through a breezy set showing their usual meld of gospel and blues to the pure bop, playing steadily and not shrinking when lyricism pours through. Horace Silver was probably the most underrated jazz leader of his time. Here's the proof.

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Simply a hard bop classic record!
This is right up there with Blakey's Moanin' and Clark's Cool Struttin'. This cd reissues one of bops greatest sessions by pianist Silver, who is as funky as he can be, the title track is swinging, funky and ever so slightly latin, hard bop! A great cd every track a gem.