Horace Silver - Song For My Father (Blue Note Essentials)

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,

A distinctive meditation on sound

Records unplayed

 Tangerine Reef is a visual tone poem consisting of time-lapse and slow pans across surreal aqua-scapes of naturally fluorescent coral and cameos by alien-like reef creatures (note: no CGI or artificial enhancement was used in this film)

Lisa Lowell

They are often noted as being one of the most influential and original bands of the 90s

Demos and rehearsals taped between formation and the recording of their seminal ‘Days Of Wine And Roses’ album

some really good ones did get through

It is a collection of stunningly beautiful moments when everything lined up in a moment in time that's still here to be treasured

yet there's an energy to them which surely comes from the man and his band being back from the brink

The human addiction to languishing in anguish

sung from surroundings the band has known their whole lives

They have now been playing together for almost 40 years