Songs For My Father: Blue Note Classic Series (Vinyl) Jamie xx Wild Strawberries dramatises one man’s

Wild Strawberries dramatises one man’s remarkable voyage of self-discovery

PLUS: An essay by critic and poet Robert Polito

tender & prolific songwriters of our era

with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building

” and “Half a Person

Songs For My Father: Blue Note Classic Series (Vinyl) Jamie xx Wild Strawberries dramatises one man’sA 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 Val Gelder Studio again with a new band featuring Carmell Jones, Joe Henderson, Teddy Smith,