Cannonball Adderley

[Mark Stryker]

74 Miles Away

Experience In E

The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free

The Black Messiah

Inside Straight

Pyramid

These are five post-Mercy sides that have plenty of meat, although none of them are "perfect".

There's also the Cannoinball Plays Zawinul compilation released not that long ago. Fine stuff to be had there.

And truthfully, the Mercy Mercy Mercy album minus the title cut could pass muster as a Riverside side. Really.

Also, Peter mentioned the sextet sides w/Yusef. I love that stuff too, and I think that the Alive set w/Charles Lloyd is almost at the same level.

A lot of people also swear by Phenix, but that one's never really gelled with me, mainly becuase of how it's mixed. But his playing on that is pretty much wide open over some frieghteningly tame grooves.

Really, there's no Cannonball on Capitol that is not worth exploring depending on the price you have to pay, and the same goes for any regular (i.e. - no "concept") Fantasy album.

Thanks for the shopping list.

[Rosco]

I'd love to shop for Black Messiah, but it only seems to be available as a download. Bah!

[jazzbo]

I have a feeling that Stateside (UK EMI) will release it on cd. They've put out "Soul Zodiac" and a great two cd anthology of the funkier Capitol work. . . . I think it's likely they'll do more releases soon.

[Shawn]

The longer I've listened to Cannonball the less I'm impressed with the 50's era recordings, at this point in time my interest really starts with the Adderley Sextet w/Lateef (which is my personal favorite) and goes from there.

Another case of time changing perspective...

As for Somethin' Else, I've always considered that a Miles Davis album...the arrangement of Autumn Leaves and the title track have his stamp (or possibly Gil Evans stamp) all over them.

Edited August 10, 2008 by Shawn