Somethin' Else

Artist: Cannonball Adderley
Label: Classics Records Fr
Category: Music

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Media: LP Record
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 601704815916
EAN: 0601704815916
ASIN: B00000JZBW

Release Date: 1999-09-15

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Tracks:

Autumn Leaves
Love for Sale
Somethin' Else
One for Daddy-O
Dancing in the Dark
Alison's Uncle [#][*]

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Customer Reviews:

gentleman,start your engines!.......2007-04-03

all of the previous reviewers are EXACTLY RIGHT ON TIME! with their ascessments of this truly classic jazz album. one of the all-time great effort. this is the album that i would play when introducing this great art form to someone new to this music. this album was played at the village vanguardin n.y.c. back in the early seventies in between sets.
check it out! you will adore it!

LA CREME DE LA CREME (FAR OUT !).......2006-04-15

MILES DAVIS had such a good taste for music! He also recognized the greatness of the song called "Les feuilles Mortes" by Joseph Kosma and did a marvelous version of it.We find again in this cd ,the GEM called "Autumn Leaves", but ...
A la maniere de MILES !
By the way, MILES was a good friend of the great french singer JULIETTE GRECO who also sang the tune with deep,deep feeling...
? SOUL Communication ?
? How can you explain this kind of playing or singing?

DON`T MISS THIS ONE !!! ... TO THE HAPPY FEW.....

A little more info about reissues of this CD.......2006-02-26

There are a few reissues of this absolutely great Cannonball Adderley recording. The first five cuts on all the reissues are the same 5 cuts that make up the original vinyl LP. A few of the reissued CD's have an additional sixth cut. The sixth cut was discovered by Blue Note and initially released in Japan in 1982 and given the name "Allison's Uncle" because Nat Adderley's daughter was born on the day it was recorded. Further research revealed that the mystery tune is a Hank Jones composition that the pianist recorded as "Rangoon" with the Gigi Gryce/Donald Byrd Jazz Lab quintet for a Jubilee label in August 1957. Therefore, please be advised that "Allison's Uncle" and "Rangoon" and the same exact cut, just with a different name for the same song. I got this info from the Rudy Van Gelder Edition footnotes by Bob Blumenthal. Tidbits like this are very important to me and thought it might be valuable to others as well.

A True Classic.......2005-11-04

A friend of mine who's a jazz fanatic turned me on to this recording about twenty years ago, and it remains one of my favorite jazz albums from the late `50s. Recorded on one day in March 1958, this session brought together some of the greatest improvisers of jazz. Just a look at the names says virtually all that you need to know; Cannonball Adderley on alto sax, Miles Davis on trumpet, Hank Jones on piano, Sam Jones on bass, and Art Blakey on drums. "Somethin' Else" finds all players in a relaxed mood, trading riffs on three standards, and (if you include the CD bonus track) three original numbers. The session is noteworthy not only because of the remarkable lineup, but because of the warmth that such disparate stylists were capable of generating. Their instinctive trade-offs are subtle and yet intricate, performed with a poise that that contradicts the energy permeating throughout each track. It is low-key and hot at the same time.
Adderley was in charge of this session, so the tracks here are accredited to him as bandleader, but they could just as easily have been credited to Miles. Davis plays a major role here, and in fact, he is credited with writing the title track. For all the world, "Somethin' Else" sounds like the missing link between Miles Davis' straightforward Prestige recordings and his later, ambitious material for Columbia. Any fan of quality jazz music should put this album on their short list of things to own. A Tom Ryan

An incredible classic jazz album.......2005-08-12

It's all been said before, but I still feel that this is perhaps one of the more underrated of the classic jazz albums, much like Cannonball Adderley is the most underrated sax player in jazz history. I'd put him up there with Trane, Bird, and Sonny Rollins.

Miles Davis' sound is all over this session, and with the familiar combination of Miles and Cannonball, this feels very much like one of the classic Miles quintet/sextet albums. The important difference here is that without Coltrane's titanic presence, Cannonball gets to shine even more. The ballad "Dancing In The Dark" might be the most beautiful alto solo I've ever heard. Also, on the up tempo cuts, the rhythm section of Art Blakey and Sam Jones swings so hard, you might strain your neck muscles to the groove.

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