Search results for "Cannonball Adderley"

Cannonball Adderley: Bohemia After Dark (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Cannonball Adderley's "Bohemia After Dark" is one snazzy tune. Free-flowing in its conception, the track kicks off a...

Cannonball Adderley: Chasm (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Chasms are defined as wide open spaces, but Cannonball Adderley's "Chasm" is filled with vibrancy and sound. The tun...

Cannonball Adderley: With Apologies To Oscar (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

"With Apologies to Oscar" is not the most precisely performed track on Cannonball Adderley's Spontaneous Combustion, ...

Cannonball Adderley: Spontaneous Combustion (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

Regardless of its conventionalism, Cannonball Adderley's "Spontaneous Combustion" is a treble-toned display of his ea...

Cannonball Adderley: Caribbean Cutie (Rating: 74/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

The melody of "Caribbean Cutie" is lilting, but after it plays out, the structure of the cut is too conventional to s...

Cannonball Adderley: Limehouse Blues (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

A friend of mine summed up The Cannonball Adderley Quintet In Chicago as "the Miles Davis band without Miles". True e...

Cannonball Adderley: This Here (Dis Here) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

At the beginning of this live performance at San Francisco’s Jazz Workshop, Cannonball Adderley introduces pianist Bo...

Cannonball Adderley: Still Talkin' To Ya (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Cannonball Adderley's "Still Talkin' To Ya" can be considered an authentic blues tune. Its slow burn utilizes the st...

Cannonball Adderley: Fiddler on the Roof (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

An album of Broadway hits could easily become a lackluster commercial concession, but Adderley’s Fiddler on the Roof ...

Cannonball Adderley: A Little Taste (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

A mid-tempo cooker, "A Little Taste" commences with a mellow tone and underneath grey skies. Sounding like it was re...

Cannonball Adderley: Stars Fell on Alabama (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Featuring members of the Miles Davis sextet minus Miles, this session was recorded as an aside from an engagement at ...

Cannonball Adderley: Azule Serape (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

This crystal-clear live recording from the long-running West Coast Lighthouse club puts the listener up close to the ...

Nat Adderley: Blues for Bohemia (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 01, 09

Introducing Nat Adderley, though a worthy occurrence in its own right, accomplished more than what its title decreed....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ROY HAYNES

The century mark is a uniquely exciting time in the development of a major musical style. History is unearthed, co...

Cannonball Adderley: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

During a 1964 Playboy panel discussion, Cannonball Adderley contemplated jazz's economic predicament. "There is an au...

Cannonball Adderley: Sticks (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 03, 09

Amazingly, this was the only song Julian "Cannonball" Adderley composed on this groundbreaking album. This song does...

Cannonball Adderley: Hippodelphia (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 09

What can be said about Cannonball Adderley? Many things, his larger than life tone, his ability to play rapid solos...

Cannonball Adderley: Waltz For Debby (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 18, 09

The transitional Know What I Mean? is too often overlooked when assessing the résumés of Cannonball Adderley and his ...

Cannonball Adderley: Love for Sale (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Cannonball Adderley joined Miles Davis’s band a few months before this session, and Davis played a major part in the ...

Cannonball Adderley: Autumn Leaves (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Because Somethin’ Else was recorded not long after Cannonball Adderley joined the Miles Davis Sextet, there was specu...

Cannonball Adderley: One For Daddy-O (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music February 16, 09

Flying down a freeway of clear skies and very little traffic, all systems are set to "go" as the sax revs the engine ...

Previous Page | Next Page