Horace Silver (Born 1928):  SONG FOR MY FATHER (1964)  Serigraph of composer's handwritten manuscript, hand signed.  Numbered 150/925.  Framed.  SONG FOR MY FATHER, dedicated to Horaces' father, John Tavares Silver, combines Jazz and a bossa nova influence with the folk melodies of his father's birthplace, the Cape Verde Islands.  It remains his most famous composition.

Includes photgraph of Horace Silver taken at Randall's Island Jazz Festival, August, 1961.

Pianist-composer Horace Silver was a co-founder, with Art Blakey, of the Jazz Messengers, and has led his own small groups since 1954.  As a composer, he has contribed more classic compositions to the jazz repertory than any other living musician.