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,

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and it is now regarded as a cult masterpiece that pairs perfectly with Gene Clark’s No Other

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largely upbeat record that showcases a new sophistication in Neil’s lyrics while sounding much more like Neil Young

raw landscapes of the American West that has been the setting for much of his previous work

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delivered with a newfound clarity that brings his surreal