Musicina Blender

Finally Together - Steely Dan and Horace Silver

Song For My Father/Ricki Don’t Lose That Number (with guest star Rickie Lee Jones)

This remix has been on my mind for a while; I finally got down to it and “put it in the blender”. Steely Dan’s biggest hit single was a blatant “expropriation” of Horace Silver’s Song For My Father. Both songs are now classics in their respective genres. It just seemed the right thing to do to mash em up together, I tried to give the mix a “live concert” flavor by adding Willis Conover’s introduction to Horace at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. And it wouldn’t be right not to include a little interlude from Rickie Lee Jones to connect those cultural dots.

A few weeks ago I was talking to long-time jazz record guy Dick LaPalm, who told me that Horace is very ill. This mix goes out to him, his wonderful musical spirit, and his great recorded work, which will endure.