Album: Song for My Father
Song for My Father is a 1965 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released in 1965. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil, and contains several bossa nova-inspired tracks, including the title song, Song for My Father.
Musicians on the album are Horace Silver (piano), Carmell Jones (trumpet), Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone), Teddy Smith (bass), Roger Humphries (drums),Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor saxophone), Gene Taylor (bass), and Roy Brooks (drums)
The Track List for the album is Song for My Father, The Natives Are Restless Tonight, Calcutta Cutie, Que Pasa, The Kicker, Lonely Woman, Sanctimonious Sam, Que Pasa, Sighin' and Cryin, and Silver Treads Among My Soul.
The iconic four bar intro to Horace Silver’s song, Song for My Father, was sampled by Steely Dan in Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, US3 in Eleven Long Years, and others (listen to the audio comparisons below).
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Song for My Father album
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Steely Dan - Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
US3 - Eleven Long Years
