Somethin 'Else
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Somethin 'Else is a jazz album recorded and released in 1958 by Cannonball Adderley .
The album
The album, one of the few recordings on which Miles Davis appeared for Blue Note Records , is considered a milestone in hard bop . Many critics and jazz fans consider it one of the best jazz albums of all time.
Art Blakey on drums, Hank Jones on piano and Sam Jones on bass on the album.
The extent of Miles Davis' influence has long been debated. It has been speculated that it was a Miles Davis recording that was released under Adderley's name for contractual reasons only. Davis himself said: Cannonball asked me to play on the date, which I did as a favor. The record was called Somethin 'Else and was very nice .
Davis plays some of the early solos and, according to the liner notes, picked out most of the material. The album opens with what is definitely considered a recording of Autumn Leaves . The piece has a relatively long introduction in minor, followed by solos by Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis and Hank Jones, and ends with an arrangement in minor. Love for Sale begins with a piano improvisation by Hank Jones, Davis plays a muted trumpet. Charlie Parker's influence can be felt in the Adderley game . Somethin 'Else is played in the 12-bar blues scheme, although the complex harmonic structure means it is not a blues in the conventional sense. One for Daddy-o is a simple, catchy blues, Dancing In the Dark is a ballad.
Davis played the pieces Autumn Leaves and Love for Sale for many years and also composed the title track. At the end of One for Daddy-O , Davis asks producer Alfred Lion: “ Is that what you wanted, Alfred? “The collaboration between Davis and Adderley continued in 1959 on Davis' iconic Kind of Blue .
reception
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Music magazine Jazzwise picked it 58th on The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World list . Keith Shadwick wrote:
"Adderley was about to push into the soul-jazz era when he made this one-off for Blue Note. In a sense it was a vale to what had passed between the altoist and Miles Davis during the time they shared the bandstand in the Miles Davis Sextet, complete with Miles' compulsive borrowings from Ahmad Jamal and the delicate balance struck between the beautiful simplicity of the emerging modernist simplicity and Cannon's natural ebullience. Miles got the altoist to shine through ballads and burnished blowing throughout, complementing in fine style while the rest of the crew kept a discreet distance. "
“Adderley was entering the soul-jazz era when he made this one-off album for Blue Note. In a sense, it was a farewell to what was going on between the Altoist and Miles Davis at the time they shared the stage in the Miles Davis Sextet, completed with Miles obsessive borrowing from Ahmad Jamal and the delicate balance between the beautiful simplicity that between the emerging modernist simplicity and Cannon's natural exuberance. Miles made the Altoist shine with ballads, complemented by fine style with a thoroughly polished game, while the rest of the team kept a discreet distance. "
Rolling Stone magazine voted the album at number 13 in its 2013 list of The 100 Best Jazz Albums .
Track list
Page 1:
- Autumn Leaves ( Joseph Kosma , Johnny Mercer , Jacques Prévert ) - 11:01
- Love for Sale ( Cole Porter ) - 7:06
Page 2:
- Somethin 'Else ( Miles Davis ) - 8:15
- One for Daddy-O ( Nat Adderley , Sam Jones ) - 8:26
- Dancing in the Dark ( Howard Dietz , Arthur Schwartz ) - 4:07
Bonus track (CD):
- Bangoon (Originally published as Alison's Uncle ) ( Hank Jones ) - 5:05
production
- Producer: Alfred Lion
- Sound engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
- Design: Reid Miles
Others
The CD contains the bonus track Bangoon ( Allison's Uncle ), which is a composition by Hank Jones. The song owes its title Allison's Uncle to the fact that Cannonball's brother Nat Adderley became the father of a girl named Allison.
The album was also released as a double CD Somethin 'Else / Di Battista by Blue Note . The second album is from Stefano Di Battista .
Web links
- Somethin 'Else on the Internet Archive
- Somethin 'Else at Allmusic (English)
- Somethin 'Else - The Cannonball Adderley Rendez-Vous
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review at Jazzitude ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dis Here , by Chris Sheridan (as Google Book)
- ↑ Review by Rovi Staff on allmusic.com (accessed May 17, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Daniela Reichert on RollingStone.de (accessed on May 17, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Marc Davis on allaboutjazz.com (accessed May 17, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Roy Carr on JazzwiseMagazine.com (accessed May 17, 2018)
- ↑ a b The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World on jazzwisemagazine.com (accessed May 17, 2018)
- ↑ Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Jazz Albums . Retrieved November 16, 2016.
