Song for my Father
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
My Father, Kenneth Caldwell Blanchard, is in the hospital. We are hoping he will be out in the next few days, but it doesn’t look good for the long term. Dad is a salt of the earth kind of fellow. Born on a farm, he went to war in the Pacific and got a pharmacy degree after the War. For both things, all of us owe him a lot. He was also a wonderful dad. Having raised two kids of my own to college age, I can only say I did it by monkey see, monkey do.
Well, in honor of Dad, here the best homage to a father in jazz that I know of:
If that isn’t enough, I think all our old folks deserve honor, if only for the fact that we will be in their place if something unfortunate doesn’t happen. So here is a Jackie McLean number to sing the song:
Jackie McLean/Old Folks/McLean’s Scene
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