Somethin Else

Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B000005H4F
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  DVD Audio  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,330 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Autumn Leaves

2. Love for Sale

3. Somethin' Else

4. One for Daddy-O

5. Dancing in the Dark

6. Alison's Uncle [#][*]

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A little more info about reissues of this CD, February 25, 2006

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Tony NYC "Tony NYC" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Somethin Else (Audio CD)

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.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Fifties" Jazz perfectly realized..., September 25, 2002

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William E. Adams (Midland, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Somethin Else (Audio CD)

This is a lovely, accessible, balanced collection which shows off Miles and Cannonball at their peaks (1958) and is a great companion to the more widely known "Kind of Blue". The ten minutes of "Autumn Leaves" is achingly beautiful, especially via earphones, but all six selections are just fine, including the "Alison's Uncle" number left off the original vinyl release for lack of playing time. One thing to remember about buying jazz through Amazon or other on-line sources is that a one-minute "sample" of a six or ten-minute improvisation can be quite misleading. I was not impressed by the "samples" I heard from this disc, but I found a good price and went ahead and bought it anyway. The totality is so much different, and better, than the sampled portions! The two horn giants here are wonderfully supported by Hank Jones at the keyboard, Sam Jones on bass, and the great Art Blakey on the drums. This is music you'll find it quite hard to get tired of.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't get any closer, April 28, 2000

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Pharoah S. Wail (Inner Space) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Somethin Else (Audio CD)

The first time I heard this cd, what may have struck me most was how "close" the music sounds. I listened to this cd in headphones the first time and I think the only way I could have felt closer to Cannonball, or the only way his tone could have been richer is if I had been there in the studio standing five feet away from him when this music was being recorded.

Now aside from that, the playing is wonderful. I just got this recently and it has become my favorite Cannonball album. Being the standard that it is, AUTUMN LEAVES has been played thousands of times by most every jazz musician at one time or another but the version on this cd is just so special. Even if I disliked every other track I'd still feel as if my purchase of this cd was worth it just because of the beauty of this AUTUMN LEAVES. I's been said that this is a Miles Davis album with Cannonballs name on it. I don't believe that for one minute. This is a great band but I think overall, it will be the beauty and soul in every note that Cannonball plays that will leave the biggest impression on you. No, Cannonball wasn't the most innovative and groundbreaking alto player in history but he was certainly one of the best. He played from the heart and his tone is just indescribably perfect, and it is captured in all it's glory on this cd.