Horace Silver - Song For My Father (Blue Note Essentials)A decade into his recording career, pianist Horace Silver made the album that would endure as the crown jewel of a catalog 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 Van Gelder Studio again with a new band featuring Carmell Jones, Joe Henderson, Teddy Smith,

"Metal Mickey"

the driving beat of rhythm and blues

moody textures that call to mind his earlier work on The Lioness

Format: Limited Loser Edtion oxblood coloured vinyl LP

and the song has featured many soundtracks including the Scream trilogy and more recently the opening and closing music to Peaky Blinders

a song that feels like it’s been waiting for decades to be heard again

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Something about the dry falsetto vocal of Durand's voice made it feel like he was right in your ear

More than twenty years into his career at this point

A favourite from recent reformation gigs

working with arranger Charles Blackwell

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