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    It really is somethin' else......

    Been listening lately to Cannonball Adderley's SOMETHIN' ELSE..............
    (1999 RVG Edition Remaster).
    Good stuff, all around.
    Miles Davis -- Hank Jones -- Sam Jones -- Art Blakey
    Original cut on Blue Note, 1958...................nice !
    One of the all-time great jazz albums.
    Highly recommended for self-purchase or Christmas gift.

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    Totally agree. In fact, I'm gonna go put it on right now.
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    I've been on a 1959 kick of late:

    Miles - Kinda Blue
    Brubeck - Time Out
    Mingus - Ah Um
    Coltrane - Giant Steps
    Getz - Imported From Europe
    Bill Evans Trio - Portrait In Jazz
    Chet Baker - Milan
    Curtis Fuller - Blues-ette
    Horace Silver - Blowin The Blues Away
    Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come

    I have two others on order:

    Oscar Peterson - plays Cole Porter Songbook
    Ben Webster - Meets Oscar Peterson

    and, what the hell - I ordered Something Else as well. Wow, was the late '50s a great era for jazz or what?
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    Nice list. It more than blankets my collection of 1959...except for


    I just love the first track. :-)

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    Good choice. I'm sitting here spinning my wheels. Listen to music, watch TV, read the paper. That made my mind up. I have it on DVD-A. Not much going on in the rear speakers on this one, but across the front is a huge soundstage. Now I'll open one of the wines I picked out this evening. Smooth.
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    There is a legend that this was really a Miles date that had to be issued under Adderley's name due to contractual considerations, Miles being on Columbia at the time, of course.

    It's a great album any way you slice it, but the point is that some consider this to be an album best thought of as part of Miles' catalog--and legacy, at least in terms of what he was doing at the time.

    Considering that he had been doing Milestones & Porgy & Bess, and then of course Kind Of Blue followed by Sketches of Spain (plus the French movie soundtrack & live stuff that ended up on 'The '58 Sessions'), it's almost inconceivable to add another record into that time frame, especially one as good as Somethin' Else.

    I don't like others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MindGoneHaywire
    There is a legend that this was really a Miles date that had to be issued under Adderley's name due to contractual considerations, Miles being on Columbia at the time, of course.

    It's a great album any way you slice it, but the point is that some consider this to be an album best thought of as part of Miles' catalog--and legacy, at least in terms of what he was doing at the time.

    Considering that he had been doing Milestones & Porgy & Bess, and then of course Kind Of Blue followed by Sketches of Spain (plus the French movie soundtrack & live stuff that ended up on 'The '58 Sessions'), it's almost inconceivable to add another record into that time frame, especially one as good as Somethin' Else.
    I've heard this info before............good stuff.
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