Showing posts with label Cannonball Adderley. Show all posts
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Friday, April 3, 2009

Know What I Mean? - Cannonball Adderley

Composed by Bill Evans


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Bill Evans, Piano
Cannonball Adderley, Alto Sax
Percy Heath, Bass
Conny Kay, Drums

Know What I Mean? was created in 1961 in the recording studio by Evans, at Adderley's special request. Its modal style suggests the days when he and Bill were with Miles Davis (Kind of Blue), and its title derives from a phrase Cannonball was fond of using (!).

Friday, January 9, 2009

Straight No Chaser

Cannonball Adderley (alto sax)
Nat Adderley (trumpet)
George Duke (piano)
Walter Bocker (bass)
Roy McCurdy (drums)

From the Newport Jazz Festival, the Cannonball Adderley Quintet performs Thelonious Monk's jazz classic, Straight No Chaser: