Condition: Used
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Label: Blue Note
Catalog#: Blue Note 1595
Format: Vinyl, LP,
Blue Note 1595 USA 47 west 63rd address on labels and 47 west 63rd st on sleeve Deep groove,ear,rvg, no R on labels.
Record is VG+ VG++ light scuff marks ( listen)
Cover VG spine is split and damged 11 inches cornerwear and ringwear
Record
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Jazz
Style: Bop, Hard Bop
Credits: Bass - Sam Jones
Drums - Art Blakey
Engineer [Recording] - Rudy Van Gelder
Piano - Hank Jones
Producer - Alfred Lion
Saxophone [Alto] - Cannonball Adderley
Trumpet - Miles Davis
Notes: Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder.
Tracklisting:
A1 Autumn Leaves
A2 Love For Sale
B1 Somethin' Else
B2 One For The Daddy-O
B3 Dancing In The Dark
Cut in 1958 for the Blue Note Lable, Somethin' Else is one of the all time great jazz albums. The personnel features Cannonball on alto, Miles Davis on Trumpet, Hank Jones on piano, Sam Jones on bass, and the great Art Blakey on drums. It may say Cannonball Adderly on the album cover, and have Miles Davis listed as a sideman, but this has the feel of a Miles Davis album all the way.
The selection of material and the musician's laid back approach, tempered by the contrast of Mile's simmering mute with an expressive firey second horn, here the exuberant Adderley, are trademarks from this era of Davis' career.
Regardless of who led the session, it is one any fan of jazz simply must have.
It is one of those rare albums that is immediately accessable, and you can tell you will be listening to repeatedly from the first note.
Every track's performance is a highlight, but Cannonball's playing is particularly inspired, especially his soulful blues soaked soloing on Dancing in the dark, and boppish flight on One For Daddy-O. Miles is dramatic, soulful, vulnerable, and sultry all at once. His muted playing on the first two tracks is simply sumptuous, with his open horn solo on One For Daddy-O and his "call and response" exchange with Adderley at the end of the title track being truly inspired.
Hank Jones contributes a flawless hard swinging piano. Taking every note he is given and making it count, Hank makes his accompaniment as well as his solos sound as if he is playing them the only way they possibly could be.
Art Blakey and the underrated Sam Jones are water tight in support, with Blakey unusually restrained throughout the album, his only solo space on the album's final track. At the end of One For Daddy-O we hear a puckish Miles ask producer Alfred Lion, "Is that what you wanted, Alfred?", and then some I'll wager.
This is an album that will appeal to the jazz novice and the aficionado alike,
Cannonball Adderley - Love for Sale
Cannonball Adderley feat. Miles Davis - Autumn Leaves
1958
Blakey is the real thing. And Davis' trumpet just takes away my breath, and drops my jaw to the floor.
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