Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Recorded live in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 1968. Song for My Father was recorded in October 1964 and 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 Silva, to whom the title song was dedicated. "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." The album line-up differs from the Copenhagen musicians here.
Who is still listening to this swinging jam in 2024 ?
Harmony top notch ❤
Well I am. Would have liked to be there. I Was not but i am forwarding this masterpiece to my 18 years old son
Well this not swing jazz.
Me!!
I do... one of my favorite pieces ! Splendid...
My Horace Silver moment came in the early 60's (my son, who in his own right was a natural reed player, just read my post and said, "Pops, you fucked up, it was back in the 60's not the 90's - which I initially typed) I was in high school living on West 100th street and continously listened to his " Song for my Father" album which was recently released. I had heard rumors that Horace lived nearby and one day as I was heading down on the elevator, it stops, I step back to make room for the the next rider and Mr. Silver walks in. After I regained my composure I began humming what else but, "Song for my Father". He twirls around with a huge smile and loud laugh and hugs me, almost lifting me off my feet. It may not have been memorable for Horace but to this day I cherish the connection. RIP Mr. Horace Silver. And thank you to all those who appreciated that moment.
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This is such a memorabIe and beautifuI story! Thank you for sharing!
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After THAT, you were high for the rest of the day. Good story.
Wow, what a beautiful story!!!
Stellar performance by the often under-celebrated Horace Silver with Bennie Maupin on tenor sax, Bill Hardman trumpet, Johnny Williams bass and Billy Cobham on drums. These old live performance videos are a treasure and very much appreciated.
Thanks helping to I.D. the members of his group. Some great and underrated players.
Thanks missing in description ❤
Sho'nuff
Yeah great trumpet solo
I first heard this song when I was 18 in the early 60's while stationed with the Navy in San Diego. They had a great jazz station then. I believe it was KOGO. This song was always a favorite of mine and started me off on my eternal love of jazz music.
Bill Hardman on trumpet...fantastic solo. Bill is so underrated. He deserves much more recognition.
I heard this piece for the first time in the early 80s when I was 15 on a jazz music Radio program in Lagos Nigeria. It was dark in the room. I was alone lying in my bed. By the time it ended I had tears in my eyes. Everything about this piece is perfect. RIP Horace Silver
Horace Silver was light years ahead of his time.This piece Song for my father is simply incredible the composition it self the musician ship the complimentary interdependence Horace hitting the keys like the stacatto like sound of a machine
Gun
How good are these tears .
Happened the same to me. Especially during the sax solo, it's awesome.
Truly
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Billy Cobham is tearing it up on the drums! The whole quintet sounds absolutely amazing.
Exactly please note guys there is long
Periods that Billy’s playing this one handed holly christ .
@@marklfazey9705He’s a lefty, so he’s playing open handed, not one handed.
Horace is such a chill cat. So modest, and relaxed, no ego whatsoever. Brilliant composer, and a fine pianist
You can listen to it for ages....
Brilliant RIP Horace silver!
All business. Love it too
He always seemed such a gentle,kind & somewhat shy human being
One of the most significant jazz performances ever. It's difficult to accept that Denmark and other European countries were so far more advanced in appreciating American jazz than the country where it originated.
I agree. As I sit here listening here in the United States. My Father has been ill over the last year. This song came to mind. I only saw Horace Silver once at a Jazz festival here. It's been about 35 years since I toured Europe as a young man. Music took me there. Playing saxophone, I visited 7 countries in 7 weeks. I learned of Denmark's love for Jazz when I discovered Jan Gabarek, Keith Jarrett, and other ECM artists. I would like to visit there someday.
It’s partly due to the European classical music tradition. I think if you grow Ip listening to classical music and you’ve got soul, jazz is a natural fit.
@@guyswiggins
Unfortunately that's the minor reason. The major reason is that the color of their skin was the wrong color for so very many Americans back then. Places they couldn't stay, venues they couldn't book. A sad indictment indeed. Musicians and music lovers didn't care about anything other than if you could play. White musicians would hang out, listen, and jam with black musicians. Took some time to get these cats the recognition they deserved. So glad to see this group play
Same happens with all the latin jazz subgenres. Are more popular in Europe and USA jazz escene than Latin American 🤷🏻♂️ . It is being said that nobody is prophet in his own country.
That's common. It's not that other countries are more into jazz, blues, rockabilly, etc than America, it's that the people who appreciate this music in the US live in pockets. There are more Horace Silver records sold in the United States than Denmark. Just not per capita.
Hey, im a Jazz singer and i never get bored with this tune, so many nuances, what Fabulous ❤❤❤❤❤❤
That double time bossa groove always kills me, and the way Billy just rides it like nothing!
I loved it!!
One of my favourite albums. But this version is new to my ears. Thank you for posting.
Great to see Horace in person, with his unrivalled intensity over his chosen instrument. But this time for me, the winner was the trumpeter. His solo brought tears to my eyes. Just exquisite.
Glad my Dad introduced me to jazz when i was 8 iam 62 now love you daddy
Kathy Hayes
Mine too, as well as other genre. But I've always found Jazz as the most truly expressive.(my opinion)
I only wish I had stuck with the piano. But I was jealous of my friends out playing ball when I had to, no, needed to practice. So sad. And I'm 63 now. Still an artist though, portrait artist.
Kathy Hayes
Same here came up on it still in love..now 67 years old
Kathy Hayes salute to that!!
In my case it was my mother. In India we'd listen to Voice of America in the early hours of the morning. I am now 86. Eric Clapton dedclared that Jazz musicians are like gods.
My oldest brother was 8 years older than me. I would lay in my bed at night and hear Dave Brubeck and Oscar Peterson emanating through his bedroom door. He passed away 25 years ago. There are so many times I wish I could share and discuss music like this with him.
Maybe the greatest jazz tune ever! What a treat to see it live!
Well my father would have been celebrating his 75'th birthday today.
So pops, this one's for you.
Any man that dedicates a song to his father is great in my book
Pappa Was a Rolling Stone?
@@jcajacob he wasn't talking about that kind of song. You'll be surprised how many of us human beings had and have wonderful fathers.
If you are a musician and had a good father, why not dedicating him a song?
For the rest of us, is Papa was a Rolling Stone.
this was the first album I bought with my own money as a kid in 1964, I am now 73 how time fly but this still sounds great and I'd buy it now if I did not have it. Wow take a moment and just listen to it, how could you not get into it or let it get into you ? I miss this level of jazz and musicians
73 huh great...4 years later 1968 this album of mine would float from one Atlanta BPP site to another; helping to somewhat soothe the souls for those of us under tremendous political pressure. Worn, but somewhere still in my collection. What memories this bring forth.
Yes one of my favorite
@@reneebrown7114, I was listening to remastered tracks of Horace Silver and realized that the quality and quantity of music that these jazz musicians produced despite those hard and difficult times were amazing because it was done for the love of music and not the love of money, and the music isn't time dated I am often surprised at how fresh a piece sound and then to find out it is as old or older than I am.
James Brown's Band does a cover of this on the instrumental album James Brown plays today and yesterday. It is very well done but nobody can beat the ORIGINAL!
@@tonyjrify Thanks I am a JB fan but did not know that he recorded this tune I'll have to check it out, I listen to JAZZ24 and they often play things JB did that I have never heard before.
I love what you can discover when you fall down a hole on UA-cam. This is gorgeous.
an unplanned trip to everywhere....wonderful...
@@darlenelongo8589 exactly!
you fall down and never want to get up!
Same here. It's a real keeper. Dreamy. Intelligent. Hip.
I agree
Genuine masterpiece...I also play in tribute to my Father, Granfathers, and Great Grandfathers. Much respect to the Legendary Horace Silver. Rest In Peace and Power to the artist and them all.🙏
Bennie Maupin on tenor sax. Bill Hardman trumpet, Johnny Williams bass and Billy Cobham drums.
Love Bill stone Hardman's trumpet. He was a friend to me when I toured withe Messengers in the 70's.
Thanks for the info on the musicians.
I only recognized Billy Cobham.
@@mtd2172 Wow, May I ask your name, and possibly what steps you took in the beginning of your jazz career to spark connections with people like the Messengers and just become a part of that community? I'm in high school and It would be a dream come true if one day I could tour with a group so influential as this.
Thanks!
Thank you brother 🙏
I'm a relatively new fan of Horace Silver, at least ten years! I really love this song, if my dad was alive today I would dedicate and play this for him. He would love it!
Blessings
Love how Horace doesn't just comp. He drives the whole groove like a boss.
Much love and respect for the musicians and all the listeners caught in this moment.
Horace Silver the legend... this recording "Song for My Father" was the essential tune for
all jazz enthusiasts in the late 60's and beyond. This video shows Mr. Silver's actual sweat
falling on the piano keys. Silver's intensity while playing was unmatched. IT DOES NOT GET BETTER THAN THIS!!
Jim Neely And still Strong
Jim Neely So great!
I'm still alive because of this type of music jazz
I'm crying
Horace Silver - piano
Bennie Maupin - tenor sax.
Bill Hardman - trumpet
Johnny Williams - bass
Billy Cobham - drums
thanks so much for furnishing this personnel listing -- just something I've been noticing, Silver is playing bass with his left hand through head, when does bass take over?
Real Musicians play Real Music....This is the sound that last a lifetime. Thank you for posting.
Exactly
Can someone play so perfect ? With all that rhythm. Unbelievable.
Same here, my father raised me on jazz & WSDM radio in Chicago. This is our song! We have others but this is the one he communicates to me most often from the grave to tell me he's listening & here for me! It turns up at the most unexpected moments, in grocery stores, elevators, rare ocassions on the radio, doctors offices on the muzak. My father was a great drummer and taught me intonation when I sing. He was one of a kind and the life of the party. I miss him so. I feel closer to him whenever this song pops up! Great musicianship & interpretation!
One of the greatest jazz songs ever, and it's so cool to see them actually playing it live.
I never get tired of hearing this. I particularly like the trumpet solo from Bill Hardman. He was just another in a very long list of underappreciated talents. But he could blow with the best of 'em. I'd put him against Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, and Donald Byrd any ol' day of the week and feel fairly certain that he'd come out on top. No one could outplay him.
What a performance by all but Horace is on a different mission, absolute perfection in every way. RIP 🙏 Horace Silver our Jazz legend ❤
You see Horace sweating over the keys? Tell me he isn't putting 125% into this tune! Great group!
Pat Gannon That and stage lights were a lot hotter back then.
Cooking, they called it.
True indeed👌
YES.... so totally
Absolutely!
A giant of piano thanks Mr horace respect
This has to be one of the liveliest, coolest jazz numbers I have heard.
lifesoboring1 There's a wonderful l of Miles Davis playing IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU with John Coltrane's on tenor sax and Red Garland on piano. Beautiful!😍
So happy I desired to know what the 50's era in jazz music sounded like and came across Horace Silver. RIP Mr. Silver, you left behind a treasure trove. Sept 2019.
What a classic! What an amazing genius of simplicity in art Horace Silver created in his playing. Sometimes less is better. Something we all need to remember.
The phrases over an over again are so delightful.. and that careful balance of the left and right hand.. the wandering bassline...
So very well said.
Simply delicious indeed!
Less is more :)
@@TheAnetmusik Yes, it is, I agree!!🎶🎶🌟⭐🌟💞🎶🎶
I used to own a copy of the album, it was destroyed in an apartment fire, (lost most of what we had) the almighty kept our lives safe and sound, a true blessing, we can never be denied of receiving.
I met Horace Silver in 2002 at a place called Jazz Alley in San Diego, CA. Jazz Alley was having a tribute night for him with many musicians performing his tunes. My wife at the time was a hostess at Jazz Alley and when she mentioned the Horace Silver tribute, I just had to go see it.
And he was in the club!! I had to walk up to him and shake his hand. He didn't play this night. He couldn't play any more with the arthritis.....
Thank you for sharing...cool encounter
This song I grew up listening to it without my dad paying attention but as I grew up as an adult I would hear it and said wow what a amazing dedication to a father dad this is for you Jimmy Taylor.
This is the ultimate long jam song. A dozen people can take a solo. Two dozen. The changes carry the song on forever,
I'm not primarily a jazzer, but I am an "appreciator" of any music with guts and soul. This song has always appealed to me, along with Cannonball Adderly's stuff, Sonny Rollins "St Thomas" et al. It seems to me that when bop took a left turn from singable melodies and dance tempos, to create music for solely for "musicians", Jazz cut off its nose to spite its face, and it has never regained popular appeal. I hear that today less than 1% of public buys jazz, that is a pity. America's non-commercial musics are often the most heartfelt, I find. I'd like to see jazz increase in our public consciousness.
Well, it DOES get better, but this is right up there with the best!
Let's gonna blowin’ the blues away!!
MrMusicguyma as (somewhat of) a musician I find the fact that there's a whole genre dedicated to my "kind" very interesting. This "musician's music" been very important for my improvement and also, most of the time, quite fun listening.
Also I dont think it's strictly for musicians, just because it's sometimes not too melodic doesn't mean the "average" man cannot understand it. I give much credit to non-musicians... They can appreciate the more "hard core" jazz no less then any pro.
the music rapidly evolved but it was Black classic music and did not get the star treatment from this white dominated society, the masses have been fed so much dreck they cannot appreciate real music.
But the public (and commercial powers such as radio networks who could have disseminated more kinds of music) cut off its their own nose with the lack of support for jazz, and for music education in general, thereby losing much chance for the public to develop a better 'ear' for listening. Contrast that with many European countries, Taiwan, Japan, etc. There is a great deal of jazz (not all) that you might consider more abstract than the above hard bop, but which nevertheless has guts and soul. It just has more complex forms, harmonies, and soloing. There are many masterpieces of classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries that might to the general public be in the same dilemma but which received enough support to be preserved. There is room for both.
Like Blakey, Horace Silver discovered promising young players and brought them along. This is my favorite.
which members did he discover here?
@@harchitb to my knowledge, the one with Silver, was the first big gig for Billy Cobham.
An honor to be brazilian and hear that this song was inpired on a trip to my country! Greetings! Great tune!
Brenno Brasil eh foda!
@@ArnonJr sem os portugueses, de nada seria. o pai do cara era português e o meu tb. e o teu? hahaha
I think that "Song for my father" a version of "Wave" by jobim
@@gilregev4823 This the brazilian MPB, a mixture of jazz and our samba. Check out João Gilberto, Sivuca, Paulinho Nogueira. You will see that they have their similarities.
great great.
"...dedicated to my Dad." That brought a tear or two here. Remembering my father just now.
One of my favorite pianists...the man, the legend...and one of his best songs...brilliant...
I cry with joy when I hear this tune, reminding me of one of the most revolutionary an beautiful musical times in American history!-CB
RIP Horace Silver . I loved your music
Mickey Carroll
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I found jazz in the second grade watching A Charlie Brown Christmas. I’m 62 now and it is the music that still makes me happy. I love Horace Silver. Incredible to this day. I hear a touch of Steely Dan in this song.. Truly wonderful
Actually Stelly nem borrowed fusion. Very great compliment.
If musicians were compensated on skill alone, these men would be billionaires.
+Pitt the Elder Well you put that about as brilliantly s anyone could, excellent comment.
+Pitt the Elder I like that. My I quote you?
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UA-cam is a public forum, I would argue that you don't need my permission. Of course.
Actually you have to see it in the contrary way, the worst musicians are billionaires in stead of these genius!
truer wordz have never been spoken. but instead yu have Madonna, shitney spears, along with the likez of Justin beber who along with all the forementioned r just a few of the biggest jokez 2 make it big. which if they all had Dark skin wouldn't have made it that big!!!!
I'll never forget hanging out with Horace at a gig in Washington, D.C. I think bassist Harvie Swartz was playing that gig with him; Harvie was like an older brother who turned me on to some phenomenal players and music. I was 14, sitting at the bar with Horace, drinking Tequila Sunrises, he's got a smile that lights up the room, very congenial cat he was. My father was a greatly respected and accomplished jazz bassist who also had a huge Blue Note record collection..... some of it was a bit more outside than I preferred, but when this was released in mid-60's I couldn't get enough of this song :) I was leader of a Latin-inspired classic rock, reggae, Motown band..... we loved playing this song, sometimes woven among other such Latin-edged songs.
thanks for sharing this great video. I'd NO idea Billy Cobham was so prolific prior to Mahavishnu!
play in heaven... R.I.P Horace. Thank you for your music!
saw him perform on jazz mobile in harlem nyc rip
My father played this song a lot.
Thanks Daddy.
I love you.
Horace wrote this for his father and mine. Miss you Dad.
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What a quintet...smooth, deeply technical and so easy to listen....this is marvelous...one of my best ever
My Daddy told me to get a Hot Toddy for my cold ... something I grew hearing but never tasted.. but I thought I would give it a try... He sent me the recipe and so I found myself searching town for a "Package store" - not my normal routine... but as I walked into this store filled with all sort of .... I found myself mesmerized by what was playing in the store... Horace Silver - Song for My Father. I had never heard it before but I could not leave the store without asking the owner who the artist was... I notice myself melting like butter just listening to this short piece.. I had to have more.. I just came home to search for it on UA-cam... WOW! What a way to complete my day... Good childhood memories of my daddy playing jazz and blues on Sunday mornings...a family recipe for a Hot Toddy to knock out my cold and a song from Horace Silver - dedicated to his father that sends me to Moon (to temporarily forget my troubles) and back again... What a moment in time for me! Thank Horace... and thanks to MY DADDY! I dedicate this song to You!Love you!Baby Gurl E~!
Ferman Davis
Awesomeness
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My daddy said," Don't talk like dis...talk like that. Don't say hunnnh, say here".... Blah blah blah and so forth etc.
HAHA Thank You Ferman Davis
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As a drummer I'd simply like to point out the savagery that Billy Cobham lays down when they jump into double time
I saw that too... so awesome and exciting!
Every time I see Cobham play I'm reminded that I have no business calling myself a drummer!
billy cobham an underrated genius
No matter what style Billy plays it's just dynamite
Incredible
Growing up in Jersey this was the BOMB! My pops would come to Jersey from Puerto Rico and play this tune
It is one of most intensive piece I have ever heard. It wet my eyes.
The great Billy Cobham on drums.
THAT BASS.....jesus....THAT BASS
QUE VIVA PANAMA....BILLY
Woah i see it. So young here! Later on he collaborated with another great: George Duke. Sadly also missed dearly..! ❤🎼🙏🏻
Say what?!
Roger Humphries ....i think, he was the drummer?!?
Man, this version is remarkably cool and so swinging. Horace's choices on his solo are melodically understated and rhythmically influenced. I met him in Brazil, when working at the Free Jazz Festival in the late eighties. I was his liaison and interpreter. Free was a brand of cigarettes that sponsored the festival. It ran for over ten years. Horace is one of the most kind, gentle, and spiritual people I have ever met. Upon my return to Los Angeles, where I resided, Horace invited me to his home in Malibu to present to me a letter of recommendation which he wrote. I have it to this day. Can someone please identify the horn players? They are brilliant!
Joe Henderson on sax
Who I d on trumpet
Just driving down the road, looking for new music. Found this. Can’t quit playing it. Genius. Touches my soul.
The Song that Inspired. Steely Dan to create Ricky don't lose that number ... THANK YOU SO VERY KINDLY HORACE.. We Love and miss you
Interesting! Where did you read that? I'd like to know more. Big fan of Steely Dan. Thanks.
Betty...you are absolutely right, and it also played a huge role with Stevie's (Wonder) hit "Don't you worry about a thing"....both artists paid homage to the great Horace Silver
Silver's survivors should sue. Listening to that intro, it's a complete ripoff.
@@fredtolliver4798 Definitely. When I heard this for the first time, I was around 9 years old. I had just began saxophone. I had annoyed my parents playing a plastic recorder. I could play by ear. I guess I'm replying to you because the man who introduced me to traditional jazz and this last name was also Tolliver. I asked him who stole this song Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, or Horace Silver? He said Horace Silver wrote it and the Steely Dan and Stevie Wonder songs were inspired by Song For My Father. I've been blessed to see all 3 artists perform live, meeting Stevie Wonder before his concert.
"Rikki Don't Lose that Number" wasn't inspired by Silver's "Song for My Father." It was composed in homage to Horace Silver with deepest respect and admiration
Here is a fine example of people listening to each other. Refreshingly perfect.
We MET Horace silver, in Miami, Superbowl week,be was playing in a upscale restaurant/CLUB moved TO California, his musical genuine WAS in full display, GREAT MEMORIES MARVELOUS conversations, SONGS FOR MY father, so beautiful.....PS RIP IN the AFTERLIFE.....
I cannot thank you enough. THIS is for my father- Cody.♥ My Dad. He understands when I cannot explain myself. He feels when IA cannot explain my own feelings. He KNOWS before I tell him anything. How? I dont know.
My father.
My heart.
My hero.
My angel..
CODY
My Da'.
BLESS and LOVE and PEACE be unto you.
Our wise heart.
My dad was a jazz man and thank s to him I got to listen to Jazz
And my daughter
Magnificent performances by all in the group.
Ricky don't lose that number rrr......... Beautiful. Plain & simple. 👏👏👏👏👏
This song reminds me of my father, James P. Burke. He introduced me to Jazz. He taught me how to listen to each instrument and how music could soothe your soul. This is definitely a "Song For My Father". Thanks Horace Silver for this excellent song.
A combination of classical blues🎹a mixture of jazz🎼rhythm&blues🎶pop🎵brilliant performance😃
So great to see Silver actually playing. I’ve listened to him for years but just found this video. He really gets into it and has such amazing, long and slender fingers. One of the greatest jazz masters. His music will never grow old and his compositions are now part of the canon. He was a gift to the world.
I could listen to this every day for the rest of my life. It never tires.
I always remember that Bill Hardman grew up in Cleveland, Ohio (my home town!) with Tad Dameron. How wonderful it is for 'jazz' artistry and musicians to be able to come together in the spirit of creativity, culture, and experience, and leave us listeners with a legacy of pure enjoyment and appreciation...even decades later.
This in my view is (by far) the best recording of this ubiquitous HS offering - it's more focused and delivers in spades. Brilliant!
I have always thanked my brothers for introducing me and being musically inclined to being musicians themselves. I also was introduced to many musicians. LOVE THEM ALL.
I still cry over this song. 😭
It carries emotion.
I listen to this every few months and It gets better every time! Absolutely incredible!!!
To be taken on a musical trip through Brazil by Horrace Silver and band is to be lost in the moment
I think of my father
Are you brazilian?
No I am not Brazilian
I dream of Brazil
My absolute favorite jazz standard. Amazing!
What a beautiful tribute to his father and a beautiful jam session. This more 50yrs ago and could easily compete with the jazz artists of today... Well done Horace Silver & quartet!!💖well done!!
Absolutely brilliant! better than the album recording.
Too fast.
richardvilseck
Well, it is faster, but it still swings like crazy so I don't have a problem. If you want to hear a classic that is way to fast in live performance, check out Take Five, live at Carnegie Hall. St. Germain actually used the intro as a sample for their Tourist album.
I was fortunate enough to have met Horace in a casual setting a few time, he was a real prince of a man. His music speaks for itself, but when the man is also beautiful, it really is the best.
Awesome, I fell in love with this song when I first heard it back in the military in 1964. Now it truly enjoy it every time I hear it. I am soo glad it is on video. I hope the gods allow it to remain forever. I love it even more now that I know it was from Brazil the country of my dreams.
ME TOO!!!
One of greatest Jazz pieces of all time. I kid you not. What a lasting tribute to has dad. Immortalized in this fabulous song.
Share many fond memories of Horace, and fortunate enough to know Roger Humphries, one of Horace's classic drummers. I get a kick out of watching a left handed drummer handle his kit. This is superb, thanks.
Billy Cobham is not left handed, he is ambidextrous ♥️👍
@@lucabencini5856 I was talking Roger, not Billy. Sorry for the confusion. Most of us drummers are ambi, but the kit is set up differently in some cases.
I was blessed to meet Mr. Silver at Chuck 75th Niles’s birthday. I was able to tell him how much his music influenced me. He was clearly touched and signed my book. What a great spirit.
I ran across the LP mentioned above in my collection about a year ago. This remains one of my favorite Jazz tunes. I was only 19 years when I purchased that LP. I'm 72 years old now. I only found the live 1968 Copenhagen performance on UA-cam about 8 months ago. What a fantastic performance. Most notable is the increased tempo in the Copenhagen performance and the incredible drummer Billy Cobham who drove the hell out of the tune in the Copenhagen performance.
1950's jazz era was so awesome. It was a game changer of what jazz music is sounding like today. No more bebop and this is what we have now-a-days. Love it !!! I still love the bebop era also, 1930's and 1940's big band. Horace Silver was awesome and his band playing with him.
This song will live forever.
Wow, this is the extended version. This is the first time I’ve heard it. Terrific!
Thank you Horace & Quintet, this composition is so soothing 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
One of the first jazz pieces I ever heard, which left an indelible mark deep to me; this, when I was in jr. high school, already drawn to jazz, and this title never left my consciousness -- Song for My Father... listeners adored Horace Silver so much, a time when I got onto kats like Jackie Maclean and so many others, stretching from jazz of the 1930's and onward. Time would be some years later when I got onto Charlie Parker -- but he was Maclean, a Bird protege, from whom I first heard a saxophone speak in ways and terms that one just does not hear anywhere but in Jazz, and somehow I understood every word he was saying! Then holio I hear Charlie Parker and boom -- my ears were born again.
Mr. Modesty, no pyrotechnics, no highbrow deconstructions, just plain simple joy. Every note pregnant with life.
Dedicated to my father David (Dave) Royce.Bond whom I Larry Cary,Sr
Inherited my passion and love for jazz and to appreciate all music jz blues and beyond/fishing and hunting with a passion i truly honor this man .i become the man that I am through his genes, and my love for him he will rest in peace, for he will live on in my music and mind, every day every, every thing i do,i can't help but to think of David Bond's
Here's why my love for jazz/cooking/fishing, reading my love for my children and grandchildrens
And you know my wife Peggy,c . Cary
"pregnant with life" word!
Kenneth, that is beautifully stated and wonderfully apt. Your comment helps me understand why I have him way up on high along with another favorite "just do it right" performer, Bill Withers.
Yes, pregnant with life, what a phrase!
when was the last time you saw pyrotechnics at a jazz show bruh?
Thanks! Merci! We're lucky to have acces to this amazing archive! Nous sommes chanceux d'avoir accès à ces archives inspirantes!
Wow ... this song is amazing ... now that I know the history I appreciate it even more ...
I've called myself a drummer since age five. My DaD made his living as a percussionist. I always loved Billy Cobham's fusion groove. His work on CTI was incredible. When his OWN band played my little college he had the Brecker Brothers with him. I was the photographer for the newspaper so I was back stage a yard or so from Mr. Cobham. After the show I met and interviewed him. What a powerful and serene presence. When I saw this I didn't recognize Mr. Cobham at first. Once I realized who it was I put down the razor blade. One can only celebrate skills and discipline like this. What a champion. (nice bunch of fellas with him too)
just simply, purely, wonderful, inspired, definitive and timeless
Best gift ever. Happy Father’s Day❤️
Mt first time listening oh me oh my why why did I not hear them before this brilliant so playing this on my community radio stint this coming week
Years ago I went to visit my hometown of Galveston, TX. Not what you'd call a jazz city, but I checked out this set and this sister sat in with the band and started playing A Song For My Father. Sister brought the house down!! One of the best renditions of one of my favorite pieces.. Horace Silver, RIP. This classic has lasted over time, so it must be good music.