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The Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Them Dirty Blues
by Jim Santella
Quite familiar to the world’s jazz audience, “Dat Dere," “Work Song" and many more were brought to us by the Adderley brothers. This reissue brings together two sessions, recorded February 1 and March 29, 1960 in New York and Chicago. The New York date features Bobby Timmons, while the later, Chicago date substitutes Barry Harris. Originally ...
Chet Baker: This Time The Dream's On Me
by AAJ Staff
Completists! Documentarians! While it's necessary to get things straight, especially for an artistic form as historically nebulous as jazz, let's not let the analysis and sorting of dates and places lead us astray from the reason we listen to the music itself. James A. Harrod does a fine job of describing the ...
Don Ellis: Live In 3 2/3 /4 Time
by Jim Santella
Don Ellis wrote and arranged in unusual meters, and yet was able to make each composition swing. He’d drive home the time signature to his audience by providing for congas, timbales, cowbell and three double basses to repeat the meter in an ostinato fashion. And of course the whole band would get into the action, accenting ...
Jumpin' With Jonah Jones: Jonah Jones
by Jim Santella
Swing trumpeter Jonah Jones was quite popular in the late 1950s when this recording was made. He had begun his professional career performing on Mississippi riverboats in the 1920s with smaller trad jazz ensembles and had moved into the big band arena early. From 1941 to 1952 Jones performed with the Cab Calloway orchestra. That exciting ...
