Song for My Father
Context
Horace Silver dedicates this theme to his father, John Tavares Silver, whose photograph adorns the album cover, conceived after a trip to Brazil. It is his best-known composition. The track opens the album of the same name on Blue Note, released in late January 1965, and brings together Silver's new quintet around Joe Henderson.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hard bop, Soul jazz, boogaloo. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).