Horace Silver: Song For My Father (Blue Note Essentials Vinyl Series) 1LP ETJS-149 With extended readings of standards

With extended readings of standards like “Take the A Train” and “Cherokee

But from the moment Jarrett blushes his opening chords and begins meditating on harmonic invention

While the music was classified as “the new thing” at the time

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The Beginning

Horace Silver: Song For My Father (Blue Note Essentials Vinyl Series) 1LP ETJS-149 With extended readings of standardsBlue Note, 1965 A decade into his recording career, pianist Horace Silver made the album that would endure as the crown jewel of a catalogue that boasts numerous hard bop classics. Song For My Father captured the transition of his quintet with two tracks taken from an October 1963 session with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and Roy Brooks. A year later Silver entered Val Gelder Studio again with a new band featuring Carmell Jones, Joe