Cannonball Adderly - Know What I Mean

rjduncan

Jazz is a wonderful journey!

Happy Listening!

Fantastic album and a great recommendation. Bill Evans and the MJQ rhythm section are peerless.

I can highly recommend the Milestone twofer titled "What I Mean" which packages this album with The Cannonball Adderly Quintet Plus, another marvelous outing with Wyn Kelly, in addition to some bonus alternate takes. Remastered by David Turner in 1979. Milestone M-47053.

@rjduncan   I got it - thank you.  Music is great and sound is good.

When I was a very young drummer, like most very young drummers I suppose, I was star struck by guys like Buddy Rich and Joe Morello, but today, 77 years old and having done a lot of listening and thinking, I much prefer Connie Kay.  Listen to the way he fits into ensemble.  He was just so musically in congress with all the other players he engaged with.  Not just with MJQ, with every player on every record he ever made.  The Cannonball Adderly things are classic examples.  He did a lot of other things too.  If memory serves look for sides with Paul Desmond for other examples and he did many things for John Lewis outside of MJQ.

Great album. I'm listening to it know. I got into jazz in the 1980s and still have only scratched the surface. 

Fantastic album for sure and an old favorite of mine!

While Julian (Cannonball) Adderly is best known, his brother Nat played trumpet & cornet in his band for years.  Nat also released some fine LPs of his own.  

Growing up I hated Jazz but the dearth of decent offerings over the past five years I began to listen critically ... now I am hooked.

Particularly smitten with Art Pepper and Bill Evans ... but new artists are beyond resplendent ala Moses Yoofee Trio.  The drummer is insane ...

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/search/albums/moses%20yafee%20trio

Thanks for the impression/tip.

I admit that, after 20+ years of trying, I dislike most Jazz (like Opera, it is not for everyone), but you tip keeps me trying...  I will find a copy and give it a listen.

Best,

That's a great record. Also try "Somethin' Else", an Adderly classic with Miles Davis.

Inagroove, I hear you.  It wasn't my jam for most of my life.  I'm mid 50s now and always looking for new stuff to listen to.  So I've picked up jazz (which I find most enjoyable in vinyl vs streaming) and more classical.  I've always been very eclectic in my music tastes.  Being a kid of the 80s in the south, it was hair metal, country and new wave.  But over my life I've rounded it out to include lots of 60s/70s classic rock, grunge of the 90s, some rap, singer songwriter stuff throughout the ages, classical and even current pop.  I love how some of the recent stuff by people like Sabrina Clark, Lorde or even Taylor Swift sound.  About all I don't do is opera (just don't have a taste for the singing, although I do like the classical music underneath it) and hard core death metal.  So jazz is the style I'm currently listing to the most and am enjoying it!

@blackbag20 +1 same, same. Still love my R&R, but find myself listening to Jazz more often. 

For anyone just starting into Jazz, or has gained an appreciation for the music, I highly recommend Chick Corea's TRILOGY, a 3 CD set.  Being lazy, I'll just cut and paste:

Product description

On September 9, 2014, Stretch RecordsConcord Jazz will release Trilogy a recording to rank with the landmarks of Corea's career. Trilogy is a triple-CD set recorded live around the world with his spectacularly virtuosic trio featuring bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade, both star leaders in their own right (and previously the rhythmic backbone in Corea's Five Peace Band). A marvel of live recorded sound, particularly for having been captured in multiple stops on the road, Trilogy sees the trio reinvent classic Corea compositions (such as 'Spain'), as well as previously unreleased originals ('Piano Sonata: The Moon'). The group also performs an array of jazz standards (including two Thelonious Monk tunes) and even re-imagines a Prelude by fin-de-siècle Russian composer Alexander Scriabin ('Op. 11, No. 9'). The recordings were made live in Washington, D.C., and Oakland, CA; in Spain, Switzerland and Austria; and in Slovenia, Turkey and Japan. Corea, McBride and Blade are joined by special guests on three tracks: flutist Jorge Pardo and guitarist Nin o Josele in Madrid ('My Foolish Heart' and, aptly, 'Spain') and vocalist Gayle Moran Corea, the pianist's wife, in Sapporo ('Someday My Prince Will Come').

 Don't be put off that it's a live recording.  It will bring your system alive.  Cheers.

Also explore the music of Gene Ammons. Gentle Jug.... Its a delight as is so much of his music.

@bigtwin  I bought it (Presto Music download with booklet $15) - thank you.  I was hesitant at first since samples sounded muddy, but it was only effect of strong compression.  Sound quality is very good and performance is fantastic.
 

@kijanki   Glad you like it.  It's always satisfying when someone follows up on a recommendation and likes what they hear.  Christian McBride has several terrific LPs of his own.  "Gettin' To It" is a personal favorite of mine.  Cheers.

@bigtwin  I listen to samples and I'm Gettin' It  

Not only good Jazz but super sound quality.  It sound like there is no compression at all.  Brass instruments have huge dynamics in treble.  Great performance and sound - thanks again.

I have few CDs with fantastic sound, showing that CD media is not a problem.  I can even understand need for some compression (for small speakers and nervous neighbors), but a lot of music is poorly recorded and/or mixed.  Digital recording brought a lot of problems.  With unlimited number of channels they placed microphones if front of almost every instrument in symphony orchestra resulting in poor sound.    Some instruments don't sound well that way.  I've read that cello start projecting sound to the back in certain frequency range (around 300Hz).  Over time numbers of microphones dropped and now they use only few (often just one).
I'm surprised, that older Jazz recordings sound so good in comparison to rock/pop music from the same years.