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Song For My Father (Cantiga Para Meu Pai)
| Recorded | Oct 31, 1963 & Oct 26, 1964 |
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| Label | Blue Note |
| Catalog | BLP 4185 |
| Released | 1963 |
| Personnel | 9 credited players |
| Discogs | master 155008 |
The record
That bossa-tinged vamp on the title cut became Silver's signature, a bridge between hard bop and the Latin rhythms his father's Cape Verdean roots carried into the music. Two working quintets pass through this date, with Henderson and Cook trading tenor duties over Silver's own unmistakable, gospel-inflected comping.
Session personnel
- Gene Taylor — bass
- Teddy Smith — bass
- Roger Humphries — drums
- Roy Brooks — drums
- Horace Silver — piano
- Joe Henderson — tenor saxophone
- Junior Cook — tenor saxophone
- Blue Mitchell — trumpet
- Carmell Jones — trumpet
Contemporary reception
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Pressings
The earliest on file is the 1964 Blue Note BLP 4185 in mono, carrying deep groove, RVG stamp, Plastylite ear and laminated sleeve; the stereo BST 84185 of the same year lists all four as well. Copies also turn up with no deep groove or a groove on one side only, so look at both faces before paying for the description. 1966 brought NY USA-label repressings of 84185. For a modern cut, Music Matters did MMBST-84185 at 45 RPM in 2010 and again on SRX in 2019.
Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 82 pressings on file.
| 1964 | Blue Note · BLP 4185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, DG Side 1 Only earliest on file · deep groove (one side); RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
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| 1964 | Blue Note · BLP 4185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · deep groove; RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
| 1964 | Blue Note · BST 84185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · deep groove; RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
| 1964 | Blue Note · BLP 4185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, No DG · RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
| 1964 | Blue Note · BST 84185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · deep groove; RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
| 1964 | Blue Note · 4185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, No DG, Printed in U.S.A. · RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
| 1966 | Blue Note · 84185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1966 | Blue Note · 84185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1966 | Blue Note · 84185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, NY USA Label · deep groove; Plastylite ear |
| 1966 | Blue Note · BLP 4185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, No DG, No "P" · RVG stamp |
| 1966 | Blue Note · BST 84185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo · RVG stamp; laminated sleeve |
| 1966 | Blue Note · BST 84185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo · deep groove; RVG stamp |
| 1977 | Blue Note · GXF-3017 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1977 | Blue Note · 84185 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp |
Follow the players
Gene Taylor also plays on
Teddy Smith also plays on
Roger Humphries also plays on