Somethin Else (Hybr) [Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import]

Cannonball Adderley (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 8, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import
• Label: Apo
• ASIN: B002LB6EJM
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,079 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 [AKA Bangoon]

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Somethin' Else by name, Kind of Blue by nature, April 16, 2011

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Archer Books "Archer Books" (Dubai UAE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Somethin Else (Hybr) (Audio CD)

If you know and love Miles Davis from the late 1950s `Kind of Blue' period but haven't heard anything recorded under Julian `Cannonball' Adderley's own name, you're likely to love and appreciate `Somethin Else.' It's the perfect Blue Note companion to KoB and in the same groove, with superlative playing throughout from Adderley on alto sax and Miles on trumpet together with Hank Jones on piano, and a rhythm section made up of Art Blakey on drums and Sam Jones on bass.

It's difficult to pick out highlights on a collection so uniformly excellent, but the 11-minute opener `Autumn Leaves' is a true jazz classic which you'll think you've always known, so recognisably familiar is the melody. The title track, showcasing the horn interplay between Miles and Cannonball chasing each other all over the scales in an exuberant and up-tempo duet sounds like a cut which escaped from the KoB sessions, and `One for Daddy-O' with its slower tempo and stand-out uncomplicated melody also shines. In the sparse, clean and bluesy `Dancing in the Dark' we hear Cannonball at his soulful best, his horn soaring with a long, slow-tempo solo over a perfectly understated rhythm.

The music here is instantly accessible, with nothing unnecessarily complex or jarring. You can listen to the album again and again, no matter what you're doing, though one or two of the numbers are perhaps a little up-tempo for dinner-party background ambience. Overall `Somethin Else' is an indispensable jazz classic which stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the very best of Miles, Trane or Charlie Parker.

The nickname `Cannonball' BTW came from a corruption of `Cannibal' due to Adderley's huge appetite for food and habit of eating absolutely everything available at every opportunity, the result manifest in his generously proportioned, rotund and substantial physique. But boy, can he play that horn.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic!, August 28, 2010

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Music lover "Camel" (Qc, Canada) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Somethin Else (Hybr) (Audio CD)

Excellent!
One of the best jazz music of this era!
Amazing sound!

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Quite His Best, January 13, 2011

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unclejef - See all my reviews

This review is from: Somethin Else (Hybr) (Audio CD)

Good recording to work with in the first place so the SACD can be great, but this isn't as lively and fun as Cannonball's "Things are Getting Better. If you don't get happy feet listening to that you're in trouble. Still, "Somethin' Else" is borderline "must have".