Jazz for aficionados


Jazz for aficionados

I'm going to review records in my collection, and you'll be able to decide if they're worthy of your collection. These records are what I consider "must haves" for any jazz aficionado, and would be found in their collections. I wont review any record that's not on CD, nor will I review any record if the CD is markedly inferior. Fortunately, I only found 1 case where the CD was markedly inferior to the record.

Our first album is "Moanin" by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. We have Lee Morgan , trumpet; Benney Golson, tenor sax; Bobby Timmons, piano; Jymie merrit, bass; Art Blakey, drums.

The title tune "Moanin" is by Bobby Timmons, it conveys the emotion of the title like no other tune I've ever heard, even better than any words could ever convey. This music pictures a person whose down to his last nickel, and all he can do is "moan".

"Along Came Betty" is a tune by Benny Golson, it reminds me of a Betty I once knew. She was gorgeous with a jazzy personality, and she moved smooth and easy, just like this tune. Somebody find me a time machine! Maybe you knew a Betty.

While the rest of the music is just fine, those are my favorite tunes. Why don't you share your, "must have" jazz albums with us.

Enjoy the music.
orpheus10

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pjw,
I have that 2CD set by Monk also.  Monk always plays his stuff and it always sounds fresh and interesting.  He seems to be the only guy in Jazz  able to pull that off.  Truly a unique player.  I served with one of his kin folk in Korea.

Cheers


Today's Listen:

Thelonious Monk  --  THE LONDON COLLECTION VOLUME THREE
minimum packaging, no notes.  1201 music label, originally on Black Lion

Solo Monk.

the man I love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqjChhKAXcg

nutty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQbKfKuyor0

something in blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJY5yjOxpQA

Cheers
Today's Listen:

Hampton Hawes  --  ALL NIGHT SESSION  VOLUME ONE
with / Jim Hall(guitar), Red Mitchell(bass), Bruz Freeman(drums)

Notes require electron microscope.  Recorded 1956

groovin' high
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHXDPqKi0bY

broadway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAwmYB_Va7Y

takin' care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r41J8Z0oZQ

jordu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-tCXuA__go

Cheers
Today's Listen:

Harry Belafonte  --  BELAFONTE SINGS THE BLUES
RCA Victor   1958

"I've always had a feeling for the basic blues, but it took several years of removing myself from that predominantly Modern Jazz environment and finding myself and my own set of values before I had the courage to attempt an album like this.  Here I can just step out and sing wholly the way I feel." -- Harry Belafonte

Did he pull it off?  Not really. First, I think he needed a real blues band, although Eldridge and Webster can't help but be great.  He also seems to try too hard to display knowledge of the Blues vernacular, that he does not have or understand.
Nice tune selection.   We just need brother Ray to perform them.

Losing Hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QE-yW3dFL0

A Fool for You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAa_hXWLaAE

Sinner's Prayer   (ouch!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWLm0stRxcA

Mary Ann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5pGM31r7bw

In the Evening Mama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd1wZN8jg0w

Cheers


Me Moved by Inside Moves! :--))

The Queen Lives!!!
A famous heart surgeon in Houston, Texas, had this tune piped into the OR while he performed some groundbreaking heart surgery. Possibly a transplant. After reading that, I had to have the CD.

The Doctors later formed a Jazz band called, the ’Heartbeats’.

I really enjoyed the JALC slow take on Lenny Kravits’ ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY!

I have found that Jazz musicians make ALL music sound better and more interesting. Motown is a prime example.

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Questions to Aficianados: What do you make of all this. From the "Masterpiece" to the "incapacitated" Bird?

From the ’BIRD’ book:

Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes (verve, 1947-52)
"Still controversial, still growing in critical statue, still among his best-loved recordings. The arrangements by Joe Lipman and Jimmy Carroll are problematic, but the Bird flights are often gratifying and "Just Friends" is a Masterpiece."

Just Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmRkZeGFONg


Miles Davis: Collector’s Items (Prestige, 1953)
"Bird, near the end, pickled in vodka, returned to the tenor saxophone for Davis’s launch session at Prestige, also involving Sonny Rollins; they barely got through three tunes."

The Serpent’s Tooth (take 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M0s29RhR5E
solo order, Miles, Sonny then Bird.

Compulsion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb-O7dhTRI
Miles, Bird then Sonny

’Round about Midnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8neYV9uIkg
The notes attribute sections to Bird that were actually played by Rollins, according to Hentoff.

The second session was recorded in 1956, by which time Bird was dead.
"The 1956 date is as mellow and relaxed as the 1953 session was tense and neurotic." -- Nat Hentoff

Apparently no one thought the 1953 session went well. Was the only time Rollins and Bird recorded together. Btw, Bird bought his tenor sax the same day of the session, and this was the first time he played it. There is always some silly stuff with him.

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One of my favorite pastimes watching ’Urban walkers’, guys who walk around major cities while holding video cameras. My favorite city is London, and quite often these guys pass by Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. Not very impressive from the outside, and not in a particularly nice area of the city. But, that may be the norm for Jazz clubs.

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I assume this is meant to be tonque-in-cheek. . .


Actually, it was meant to be a statement of fact.

Cheers

Btw, When did I say this?
The OP is correct.  Think of the photo, 'Great day in Harlem', taken in 1958.  Think of trying to do that photograph today.

Jazz seems to be on a similar trajectory as Boxing.   Once, Great fighters were every where, now they are few and far between.

But, Boxing didn't have Wynton!! :)

Cheers
"Where the f--k am I".
 The great society, or the results thereof.

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Am I erroneously attributing this quote to you?

No, not at all.  It's me, I just think it was some time ago.  Just curious.  Like you, I will fight no more forever, on these threads.

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'State of the art' sound comes very low / early on the price ladder.  Speaking of amplification, I would say around the mid-level ranges of Marantz, Yamaha, Denon, Onkyo etc....   All above this price range  is hype, voodoo, delusion, exotic design and materials, exclusivity, or all of the above.  All of which have zero to do with sound.  The most important component remains, as always, the room.

For my purposes, State of the Art means just that, the best it can currently be done.

Analog:   I agree, if you're out, stay out.   I would add, if you're in, get out!!

Cheers
Ahmed Abdul-Malik

JAZZ SOUNDS OF AFRICA

Ahmed Abdul-Malik(bass, oud), Tommy Turrentine(trumpet), Andrew Cyrille(drums) and a bunch of unknowns.

Two LPs on one CD.  'The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik' & 'Sounds of Africa'.
Recorded by Rudy van Gelder   1961-62  /  2003 remaster

hannibal's carnivals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQvJU3gGps

la Ibkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDh7uwMag78

don't blame me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWEX0uFdHLY

nights on saturn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC9qyV_RV9A

Cheers

Pepper Adams Quintet

10 TO 4 AT THE 5 SPOT

Riverside / Original Jazz Classics   1958 / 1993

Notes: "One of the very earliest of Riverside's many noted on-the-job recordings.  The limited technology of the fifties made such "live" efforts risky, but the vibrant energies of young stars-to-be like Donald Byrd, Elvin Jones, and Pepper Adams turn this session into a forceful example of the values of capturing the sound of Jazz in its natural habitat."

hasting street bounce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O3LXGK3SI8

yourna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG7oqxSlAxY

you're my thrill 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp2wRyGxCuA

Cheers
The Adderley Brothers

THE SUMMER OF '55

Nat Adderley(cornet), Donald Byrd(trumpet), Jerome Richardson(flute & tenor sax), Julian Adderley(alto sax), Horace Silver(piano), Paul Chambers(bass), Kenny Clarke(drums)
Savoy / Atlantic Compilation  2CD set   1955 / 1995

Excellent account of the Adderley brothers journey from Florida to NYC.
"We didn't know what the hell we were doing.  We were just going to New York."  Nat Adderley is talking about the summer of 1955, when he was 23 and his brother Julian was 26.  They were on vacation, Nat from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Julian from his teaching job at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, where he was director of the band.

As they say, the rest is history.

with apologies to oscar, take 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjBbVyJRKis

willow weep for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uopF-nx92fA

still talkin' to ya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP5JVDK6soA

caribbean cutie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjag8JUav1A

flamingo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsUeyvzMNWA

Cheers

FYI, go to 29:10.  A little known Jazz factoid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_1cLBobCUc
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
and his orchestra. 21 strong!

AFRICAN WALTZ

Riverside / Original Jazz Classics   1961 / 1993

Notes: "In the spring of 1961, the pop music world was treated to one of the rarest experiences--an instrumental record conceived and executed by Jazz musicians, climbing into the Top 40 on the Billboard chart of top-selling singles. That was "African Waltz," arranged by Ernie Wilkins for Cannonball Adderley and big band."

west coast blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjWqkG24J3w

Stockholm Sweetnin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiyQhVejmlg

this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihHC_8E4_S0

african waltz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em8mbNTxhPY

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Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET AT THE LIGHTHOUSE

cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Nat Adderley(cornet), Victor Feldman(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)

One of the Iconic Jazz album covers
Landmark 1960

Notes: Cannonball’s third album. "One of the few Eastern groups to have played at The Lighthouse. They became the first non-cool group to record there.."

Cannonball, "non-cool"???  Even the cover photo is the definition of COOL.

sack o’ woe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N45hYXNu12o

azule serape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j44fKJ-A6hs

exodus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DUplYvYLl8

our delight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCuuR6iHeR0

Cheers
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY AND THE POLL-WINNERS

Cannonball(alto sax), Wes Montgomery(guitar), Victor Feldman(piano, vibes), Ray Brown(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)
The 'Poll Winners' refers to Brown and Montgomery.  Playboy, Downbeat  etc....
Riverside / Capitol Jazz       1960 / 1999

the chant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdxRHctXxM

never will I marry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmyx41ld4Ko

au privave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFG13Cqz5g

Cheers
pjw,
Great stuff by Cannonball and Lateef, from the Fatherland.  The uber-mensch went from goose-stepping to be-boping without missing a beat.   Amazing!

Cheers
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Sextet
Cannonball(alto sax), Nat Adderley(cornet), Yusef Lateef(Tenor, flute, oboe), Joe Zawinul(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)

CANNONBALL IN EUROPE

Notes: "The international Jazz festival in Comblain-La-Tour was the first big open-air Jazz festival in Europe and one of the few to ever be broadcast on television.  Joe Napoli, a Brooklyn-born soldier who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, wandered into town in December 1944 looking for a little comfort and relief.  He never forgot the kindness extended to him by strangers and revisited Comblain-La-Tour in 1955.  Joe had become a manager and booking agent; when he learned the town needed funds in 1959 to rebuild its church, he came up with the idea of creating a Jazz festival."

Comblain-La-Tour is in Belgium.  The 1962 festival drew 42,000 people.


gemini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pUKEqpHGA8

trouble in mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq-kHVq0TVM
I kept waiting for "Cleanhead" to start singing.

work song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lukMc2WDFds

dizzy's business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4JFB7cIA3E

Yosuf Lateef makes it an entirely different group.

Cheers

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Cannonball(alto), Sergio Mendes(piano), Durval Ferreira(guitar), Octavio Baily Jr(bass), Dom Um Romao(drums)

CANNONBALL'S BOSSA NOVA

Capitol Jazz    1962 / 1999

Notes:  "Adderley's approach here is to deal entirely with Brazilian material---he swiftly rejected as artificial any thought of twisting either pop standards or Jazz originals into a Bossa Nova format."

He and his playing style fit this music perfectly.

corcovado (alternate take)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyGxszkDgiY

clouds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Zoa1YtPQQ

groovy sambas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSeBbZx1m7I

o amor em paz (once I loved)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B7SCa0bjeE

Cheers


Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Cannonball(alto), Nat Adderley(cornet), Junior Mance(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Jimmy Cobb(drums)

CANNOBALL'S  SHARPSHOOTERS

Mercury / Japanese Remaster     1958 / 1986

Notes:..."from this the talk got to the state of Jazz in general, about which he remarked, "I think we're going to have a recapitulation.  There are some Jazz performers who are trying to lead it to the concert hall and a common ground with Classical music.  However -- the best way I know to say how I feel about it -- I don't think Buddy Bolden would dig that too much."

straight, no chaser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOnQZ3J2H9c

our delight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmGenUcsx5g

if I love again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1s2TGLTKF0

i'll remember april
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_6xW-D3YgU

Cheers

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Cannonball(alto and soprano sax), Nat Adderley(cornet), Joe Zawinul(keyboard), Walter Booker(bass), Roy McCurdy(drums)

COUNTRY PREACHER

Minimal packaging.  A tribute to 'Operation Breadbasket'.  Zawinul on "keyboards" instead of piano.  Bad sign.  I hope they aren't going Sinbad on us.
Capitol Jazz
Recorded in Chicago 1969

country preacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gByDuEwgE6U

hummin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmgxQDiXIk

oh babe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXWOlGU7Fzo

afro-spanish omlet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fCvXXjRe-M

Cheers

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Cannonball(alto), Nat Adderley(cornet), Yusef Lateef(tenor), Charles Lloyd(tenor), Joe Zawinul(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums), 

THE BEST OF CANNONBALL ADDERLEY THE CAPITOL YEARS

Notes: "Like Horace Silver or Jimmy Smith, Cannonball's brand of funk was never simplistic or condescending.  It was pure and sincere and intelligent.  His vibrant alto saxophone rang true.  And his repertoire never abandoned the qualities that make Jazz varied and great.  
     Here then are the anthems of a man who spread the word of Jazz more than anyone except Louis Armstrong."

the jive samba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxvNeKt4UE

work song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsVZiwxr-Qs

74 miles away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c-CgZFdtDg

fiddler on the roof   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhw22yQnnBo
Victor Gaskin(bass), Roy McCordy(drums)


Cheers
Cannonball Adderley Sextet
Cannonball(alto), Nat(cornet), Charles Lloyd(tenor, flute), Joe Zawinul(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY'S FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

Capitol Jazz   1964

Notes: " 'Fiddler on the Roof', ... opened on Broadway on September 22, 1964 with the larger-than-life Zero Mostel in the title role.  Only a month later, on October 19, alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, a kind of larger-than-life character himself, took his sextet into the studio to record an album of selections from the soon to be world renowned  musical.  Cannonball was prescient -- he had realized not only the social and historical significance of the show but also the fact that it contained some very special music that would lend itself to the kind of appealing improvisations with which he and his band members dazzled audiences and won over new listeners to Jazz."

to life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fChkHmHcU5Y

sabbath prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWY8tyNlzA

chavalah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkIU2-RAiQ

matchmaker, matchmaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlmSDrrwqi4

Cheers

@tyray,

I have The Black Messiah on lp from back in the day.  Cannot find it on CD.  I even checked the Real Gone Music site.  The search continues.
Thanks

Cheers
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET IN CHICAGO
a.k.a. Cannonball & Coltrane
Cannonball(alto), John Coltrane(tenor), Wynton Kelly(piano), Paul Chambers(bass), Jimmy Cobb(drums)

limehouse blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aq5EVhEMnE

stars fell on alabama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eszHPMJkd2s

wabash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJs17NZsgU

Cover art:  The erasure job they did on Coltrane, would do Pravda proud.


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but they do seem to be stuck in a rut lately.


some of us are stuck in Jazz.  Some others have broken free.

Cheers
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Cannonball(alto), Nat(cornet), Lateef(tenor, flute, oboe), Zawinul(piano), Jones(bass), Hayes(drums)

THE CANNONBALL ADDERLEY SEXTET IN NEW YORK

Notes:  "The saga of Cannonball Adderley's band, which has unquestionably been one of the most dazzling success stories in modern Jazz history, has been highlighted by recording sessions of the most "modern" kind--on-the-job, in-the-club albums that have only become possible because of the improved tape-recording and microphone techniques and equipment of recent years. -- Keepnews

Riverside  1962 / 2008

gemini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPv1HnliyPw

dizzy's business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WgxMVWKXx4

scotch and water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-dhZF9HLU

Cheers


For the OP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX8TJbfXFjA

It's on Chesky!!

I bought "Drums of Passion" back in the day, but have not opened it yet.

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@frogman 

Great Cannonball record, and one that I don't have, yet.  He is never boring or irritating.  I could listen to him all day.  He always has a great supporting cast.

Full disclosure:  I was not intentionally doing a survey of Cannonball.  The truth is,  I had gotten to the point where I couldn't remember what I had and had not posted. (it's been 8 years)  So, I just decided to start from the beginning and post them in the order in which they appear on my shelf.  As you can see I am still in the A's. :)  Can Pops be far behind!   It's also a great way for a person to hear all the music they have on the shelf.

Before the OP can say "we have heard this and that before, let me say, too bad!

Cheers
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Quintet
Cannonball(alto), Nat(cornet), Bobby Timmons(piano), Sam Jones(bass),
Louis Hayes(drums)

THE CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET IN SAN FRANCISCO

Recorded at The Jazz Workshop
Riverside / OJC   1959 / 1989

Notes:  "When Dmitri Shostakovich, the Russian composer, went to hear his first authentic American Jazz, he went to the Jazz workshop and sat for an hour attentively listening to Cannonball's group.  He made no comment whatsoever, which is in itself a comment of sorts.  But he dug.  He smiled appreciatively several times, applauded vigorously on occasion, and leaned forward intently to watch a Louis Hayes drum solo."


this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es8kM8FU6eU

hi-fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSB6dlwHYo

bohemia after dark  (aka birdland after dark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfM5nJI60Vw

straight, no chaser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2kfT8X9Mr8

Cheers



Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Sextet
Cannonball(alto), Nat(cornet), Yusef Lateef(tenor, flute, oboe), Joe Zawinul(piano),
Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)

JAZZ WORKSHOP REVISITED

Notes by Orrin Keepnews in 1963 and again in 1989.  Interesting story of how both dates came about.  Changes to group and label  etc....
Riverside / Capitol / Landmark       1962 /1989 / 2001

Jessica's Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lGhTxE9s2g

Mellow Buno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcAqLjkcFHs

Primitivo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ghhtyypqOE

The Jive Samba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3GGWqXQ278

Cheers


Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Cannonball(alto), Miles Davis(trumpet), Hank Jones(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Art Blakey(Drums)

SOMETHIN' ELSE

Blue Note   1958 / 1986

Notes:  Just routine comments about each tune and other chatter,  from Miles mostly.  I expected more from an album of this importance.  I got the feeling they did not know what a quintessential album it would be.

Somethin' Else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOtqq3E0JNg

One For Daddy-O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYbLEjyrLZc

Alison's Uncle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNdBXe9Nw64

Autumn Leaves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpB7-8SGlJ0

Cheers

Miles and Blue Note!!

"Just hope that you will not decide next to post all J.S. Bach's albums you've got"

Too late.  I have already done that on another thread.   FYI, my next 'survey' will be my 10 CD set of Spike Jones Greatest Hits.  All come highly recommended by The Frogman, so you know it will be good stuff.

Cheers
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Cannonball(alto), Nat(cornet), Barry Harris(piano), Bobby Timmons(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)

THEM DIRTY BLUES

Riverside / Capitol Jazz    1960 / 2000

Them Dirty Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCfXQ6yKjLc

Easy Living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbvbh2lhtDw

Jeannine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAzHD5nSa1M

Soon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfWOgck7QMg

Cheers
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Sextet

DIZZY'S BUSINESS

Cannonball(alto), Nat(cornet), Lateef(flute, oboe, tenor), Joe Zawinul(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)

Milestone     1962-63 / 1992

Notes: "Like Dizzy Gillespie, alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley was one of the select few to be taken seriously as an artist while unfailingly conveying a tremendous sense of fun.  Adderley (1928-1975) spread the good news with a pungent and inviting blend of bebop (both chordal and modal), blues, and gospel.  The performances herein, recorded live in San Francisco and Tokyo in 1962 and '63 are all prime cuts by the powerful sextet..."

Dizzy's Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6SBzd1h3MY

Autumn Leaves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDfZDLx3os

New Delhi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwOf5Xyp5NA

Never Say Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oflNsilJNc

Cheers



Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Sextet

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY SEXTET LUGANO 1963

Cannonball(alto), Nat(cornet), Yusef Lateef(tenor, flute, oboe), Joe Zawinul(piano),
Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)

From the vaults of Swiss Radio.  Found at the Italian speaking Swiss radio in Lugano: Cannonball's sextet from the early sixties.

Cannonball, like Monk, made sure at least some of his 'hits' were on every recording.


jessica's birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlSK4l5kDAs

work song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpk6AFwqhQw

jive samba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5YC7N7biTo

trouble in mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew2tnZIodgw

Cheers
Julian "Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson

THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER

Cannonball(alto), Milt Jackson(vibes), Wynton Kelly(Piano), Percy heath(bass), Art Blakey(drums)

Riverside / Original Jazz Classics    1958 / 1988

Notes:  "Bags and Cannonball belong together for several reasons--not the least of which is that both eagerly welcomed the opportunity to get together.  There is also the fact that both are firmly "modern traditionalists": musicians with An awareness of Jazz roots and with, in both cases, a strong rhythmic sense and an emphasis on the beat as a basic part of their playing pattern."  Above all...both are, deservedly, highly regarded as practitioners of the Blues."


things are getting better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlHuww-O89E

the sidewalks of new york (take 5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0OA8QYFLcw

just one of those things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6poRgn8uD0

blues oriental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQgZOQc9oE0

Cheers


From the, Ain’t got it, git it, shelf.  Captivating!!!

Macy Gray

STRIPPED

Macy Gray (vocals), Ari Hoenig(drums), Daryl Johns(bass), Russell Malone(guitar), Wallace Roney(trumpet)
Chesky Records Binaural Series 2016

Notes: "Special thanks to Professor Edgar Choueiri of the 3D Audio and Applied Acoustics (3D3A) lab of Princeton University, for his technical assistance on the 3D audio aspects of this binaural recording."

If you don’t have the Sennheiser HD660s headphones, this CD is the perfect reason to do so.


she ain’t right for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-CddGQtP8c

annabelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu3UakBpWfg

slowly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXONmYZNGZE

the heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEU8Im0QF6s

Cheers
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
with Bill Evans

KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

Cannonball(alto), Bill Evans(piano), Percy Heath(bass), Connie Kay(drums)
Riverside / Original Jazz Classics     1961 / 2011


Know What I Mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vp-Z0odHTM

Toy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrY8GlNdn5U

Waltz For Debby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buP-737sIQY

Who Cares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_pjWPc5e9I

Cheers


Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

SWINGIN' IN SEATTLE (Live at the Penthouse: 1966-1967)

Cannonball(alto), Nat(cornet), Joe Zawinul(piano), Victor Gaskin(bass), Roy McCurdy(Drums)

Recorded from live radio broadcasts at the Penthouse Jazz Club in Seattle, WA on June 15 & 22, 1967 and October 6 & 13, 1966.
Reel to Real Label
19 tracks listed, 11 of which are spoken intros and outros.  There was some music.

Excellent booklet with interviews and pictures and LARGE print!

the morning of the carnival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64f6MIHHE6Y

74 miles away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ptDmyjbztc

back home blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeXgoQP5FdA

hippodelphia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4atPY4lU8GA

Cheers


Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

CANNONBALL TAKES CHARGE

Cannonball(alto), Wynton kelly(piano), Paul Chambers(bass), Percy heath(bass),
Jimmy Cobb(drums), Albert "Tootie" Heath(drums)
Riverside / Capitol Jazz   1959 / 2002

Notes: Recorded in the spring of 1959, this was only the third of some 15 albums featuring cannon that I produced for the Riverside label.  ....I think of this era as Early Cannonball.  Early means the period before stardom.  Before he put together his notable quintet (with his brother Nat on cornet and the funky composer Bobby Timmons on piano) and convinced me to record them in performance at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco late in '59, thereby turning himself into a full-scale major attraction and Jazz household name, and almost single-handedly launching the 1960s phenomenon known as "Soul Jazz." --
Orrin Keepnews

serenata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccl4W_BHZR0

barefoot Sunday blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3hxbW2XYJ0

if this isn't love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtKdT7ER23U

poor butterfly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umlAV-2jDpo

Cheers