From Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else [1958] Cannonball Adderley on alto sax Miles Davis on trumpet Hank Jones on piano Sam Jones on bass Art Blakey on drums Listen to it here .
Author, photographer and radio host Dennis Owsley will teach another series of jazz history classes beginning at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, November 5 at the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd.Owsley's topic this time is "The Great Jazz Soloists," and the course will cover the work of jazz grea...
Washington, DC, correspondent John Birchard ventures into the jazz wilds of the US capital in search of live music and reports to Rifftides readers on what he hears. This time, the event was a tribute concert. CANNONBALL REVISITED By...
Miles and Trane make rainy days better. "So What" is the first track on the 1959 Miles Davis and John Coltrane album Kind of Blue and is often credited as one of his best works. It is one of the most well-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D minor7, followed by eight bars of Eb minor7 and another eight of D minor7. This AABA structure puts it...
Will Shade; Bass Face Retrieved by Pat Darnell and The Living Ends In MooPig Fashion, here is our tribute to Bassists everywhere. These fantastic images are obsconded from a very cool blog site, "If Charlie Parker was a Gunslinger,..." [HERE] Click and Go over there for more photos. And in keeping with copycat we get our "Face" idea from Pribek dot net, [ HERE ] "Guitar Face."...
where the hell have i been ? spinning this cd on a constant loop in the player that’s where. for the last few weeks any resemblance of 80s electro (original or revival), 90s indie, crusty industrial dub, noughties whatever, has been banished while i pretend to be a part of the rat pack and expose [...]
Started in his parent's living room by Rudy Van Gelder in the early 1950's, it became the place where Alfred Lion started recording Blue Note artists in 1953. A proper studio opened in 1960, Van Gelder became a mecca for...
Recorded in 1966, produced by David Axelrod. Maybe Cannonball's most popular LP. Though the title says "Live at The Club" and the liner notes even say it is recorded at the Club DeLisa in Chicago, in reality the show took place at Capitol's Hollywood studio with an invited audience (and a bar). Cannonball did this for publicity as a favor for the owner of The Club, a friend of his. A more...
I spent some time today working on tracks for an instrumental/electronic album and got in quite a musical mood. So much so, that I felt compelled to buy some tunes off Amazon that I'd wanted for a while. An eclectic mix... Christina Aguilera, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Cannonball Adderley. Music must be some kind of special blessing from God. It's just sound structured in a certain way, but it can convey so...
Members of Miles Davis Sextet come together with Cannonball, recorded at Universal Studios in Chicago. Liner notes are here . "Wabash" is an Adderley tune while "Grand Central" and "The Sleeper" are Coltrane compositions. This was rereleased as Cannonball & Coltrane . Look for more Cannonball in the next couple of days. 1. Limehouse Blues - 4:40 2. Stars Fell on Alabama...
Jimmy Cobb could hardly imagine he would be making history when he arrived at Columbia Records' 30th Street Studio 50 years ago for the first of two recording sessions with Miles Davis.
Happy Founders Day to my brothers in Sinfonia , a fine collection of men of music; we're 111 years old today and going strong. I look forward to celebrating with a lot of you in the area at Sunday's concert. At the moment, I'm listening to a tune by Brother Branford Marsalis, but, if you were so inclined, you could also fire up some Count Basie, Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, Herb...
The journey from the beginning of Joe Zawinul’s life in 1932 to its end in 2007 is a short Viennese stroll. Certainly no more than the briefest of tram-rides. His first home was in a council flat in the 3rd, Landstrasse, district of Vienna; his grave is in the Zentralfriedhof in the adjacent 11th district. Where, incidentally, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, J . Strauss I [...]