Song for My Father is a 1965 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label in 1965. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil.
The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver’s father, John Tavares Silver, to whom the title song was dedicated. “My mother was of Irish and Negro descent, my father of Portuguese origin,” Silver recalls in the liner notes: “He was born on the island of Maio, one of the Cape Verde Islands.
Allmusic reviewer Steve Huey praised the album:
One of Blue Note’s greatest mainstream hard bop dates, Song for My Father is Horace Silver’s signature LP and the peak of a discography already studded with classics…it hangs together remarkably well, and Silver’s writing is at his tightest and catchiest