Record Store Day was good to me. I spent a few hours around noon at the Artform Studio in DTLA & came up on some joints that the big homie Forest brought. (You might know him from his international heat at the Beat Swap Meet) It was a good time, a lotta heavyweights in the [...]
Ray Brown With The All-Star Big Band
This is a summit meeting that builds from the bass up.
That Ray Brown and Julian Adderley have joined forces to produce one of the most pre possessing big-band albums of recent years is scarcely surprising. Their qualifications made the success of this alliance a foregone conclusion
Musically their genes are the same. Both [...]
The Reverend Jesse Jackson gives an inspiring brief speech to open the festivities, and the Quintet begins with "Walk Tall," a lively jazz/R&B number. Named in honor of Jackson "Country Preacher" and written by keyboardist Joe Zawinul, the changing tempo tribute has two contrasting grooves: one's sad and reflective, the other happy and boisterous. The [...]
Cannonball Adderley – The Sextet
Late in 1961, while riding a crest of soulful success, Cannonball Adderley proceeded to make a good thing even more so. First he hired an extremely funky young Austrian pianist named Josef Zawinul, and shortly thereafter he expanded his group by adding the unique multi-reed talents of Yusef Lateef. This powerful [...]
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet – "In Person" With Special Guests Nancy Wilson & Lou Rawls
ELOQUENT is the word for Julian Adderley, and it may be applied with equal accuracy to two areas of his public personality. Eloquent, according to Webster, mean “expressing oneself with moving force and fluency” or “vividly or movingly expressive or revealing.” [...]
