Adderley was prominently featured on Davis’s albums Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959), both considered benchmarks of 1950s hard bop and modal jazz. Also significant was Somethin’ Else (1958), a classic album released under Adderley’s own name on which Davis was a guest player...
The resulting album,Somethin’ Elseis one of the classic albums, and upon its release divided opinion on whether the trumpeter dominated the record, and thus taking the shine away from Adderley. The truth is perhaps rather different with the benefit of hindsight, and knowing how the careers of...
11 . Nothin' But de best 6:05 Soul Station sounds like "Porky" ( Cannonnball Enroute Sessions) Recorded in Performance at the 4th Newport Jazz Festival , July 5, 1957 AT NEWPORT is a consequential addition to the prolific and distinguished discographies of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley an...
Adderley achieved immortality in the Miles Davis Quintet withKind of Blue- and hisSomething Elseis possibly the best of the Blue Note albums. That was the late 1950s. Ten years later Adderley was touring Europe with his own quintet and gave a performance at Stuttgart's Liederhalle. Even duri...