Horace Silver "Song For My Father" (1964)

Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist. Silver is known for his distinctive humorous and funky playing style and for his pioneering compositional contributions to hard bop. Silver was influenced by a wide range of musical styles, notably gospel music, African music, and Latin American music and sometimes ventured into the soul jazz genre.

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.

A jazz standard, "Song for My Father" is here in its original form. It is a Bossa Nova in F-minor with an AAB head. On the head, a trumpet and tenor saxophone play in harmony. The song has had a noticeable impact in pop music. The opening bass piano notes were borrowed by Steely Dan for their song "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", while the opening horn riff was borrowed by Stevie Wonder for his song "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing".

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

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[Obiwannabe]

Jazz is better then math anyway.

[Freddie Parish]

I'm assembling a jazz quartet at school (I'm 11) and this what we're going to play first

[Austin Rossi]

Best sounding is improv is F Dorian, Eb Mixo, Db Mixo, C Mixo

[cthesupergenius]

Math got no soul

[cjwynes]

Always loved to solo on this with alto sax, its A natural minor so it's super easy but you can just do whatever the hell you want. Not at all surprised to see comments of people learning improv on this one.

[Jessica Schneider]

Learning jazz improv with this song

[powergirl901]

Oh this is Rikki Don't Lose That Number!

[KEEDAH GIANNETTI]

You already know how I dig your channel, keep 'em coming :-)

[Guillermorton]

well, that's rikki don't lose that number

[funkadelicatelady84]

the first song i am learning improvisation with :)

[OrangeCountyRider]

I play this now and I just got it down hahaha! So much fun but difficult to play.