Cannonball Adderly - Know What I Mean

rjduncan

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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.