Coverage limited to news reporting as of May 2020. From it’s opener, “Autumn Leaves” to it’s penultimate track, “Dancing in the Dark” Somethin’ Else strolls along with a slow, cool groove that emphasizes the quintet’s confidence and style. There is an energy on this album that is all but yelling from the rooftops that something big is about to happen. although he first brought his vibraharp onto the scene In the
Adderley teamed back up with Bill Evans for this 1961 soul jazz monster. 3. to be a fairly likely result of indiscriminately throwing big
Those drivers were behind the wheel of an Audi A8 equipped with aftermarket fuel tanks strapped to the interior. The previous record holders remain anonymous, and traveled from the Red Ball Garage[16] on the east side of Manhattan to the Portofino Hotel[17] in Redondo Beach, California, a total of 2,825.3 miles (4,546.9 km) in 26 hours 38 minutes in April 2020. The joy and pain and fear and elation. One of the great things about jazz is the collaborative nature of the art form. The musicianship is as fierce as ever, but the band has a little more time to explore their ideas. Ashmore was able to achieve approximately 12 mpg with a moving average of 109 miles per hour, recorded on the GPS app Glympse as opposed to using dedicated tracking software like previous record holders.[23]. Delphi engineers covered 3,400 miles, San Francisco to New York City, over a span of nine days. "Unit 7"
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Adderley was a fun-loving guy who liked the audience to have a good time, but he was also a thought-provoking artist and he addressed that with every genre that he played in. 10 of the best jazz saxophone players in history, Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley (1962), Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Live at “The Club” (1966), The Black Messiah: Live at the Troubador (1971), The Best Guitar Amps For Jazz (2020 guide), Art Pepper | 10 Great Albums From the Alto Saxophone Legend. Things Are Getting Better (Adderley-Langdon)
[22][2], In early June 2020, as reported by Road and Track, Fred Ashmore, completed a solo run in 25 hours and 55 minutes. That’s how we ended up with a bit of a hoax here. "Ease It"
Things kick off with Cannonball telling the audience that they are actually hip and not merely pretending to be and that is appreciated. Orpheum MusicBMI 8:10 go to the Solo
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The story goes that Adderley was friends with the manager of a Chicago venue called The Club and he wanted to give his friend a little help. era, Groovin' High. Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley got the New York jazz world talking the second he took the stage in 1955. Produced, and notes written by,
What makes this album significant is that these musicians came from varied musical backgrounds that created a vibrant, colourful yet organic musical experience. Coltrane and Adderley were very different in their approaches to jazz and the tension created by juxtaposing those divergent styles are on display on Quintet in Chicago. (Time included 60 hours, 8 minutes driving, and 15 hours, 57 minutes charging. Where did Cannonball Adderley’s nickname come from? Spellman, NPR’s Basic Jazz Record Library commentator, noted that the solo exchange between Adderley and Davis on Autumn Leaves was the “kind of antiphony, that call and response that was at the very root of jazz.”. The Portofino Hotel is located at 260 Portofino Way, Redondo Beach, CA 90277, Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-22-sp-214-story.html, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOWn1WSYhVQ&t=351s, "NY to LA. The main function of this album,
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Released 1961 on Riverside Records this album featured Bill Evans on piano, Cannonball on alto saxophone, Percy Heath on bass, and Connie Kay on drums. After his split from Davis’ group, Cannonball went on to help pioneer soul jazz, post-bop and a number of other subgenres. date." The song is absolutely at home with the rest of the album even if it is above all else a party record. There are tons of books that feature transcribed solos, but why should… reflect the critical attitudes and technical
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[1] As of August 2020, the record is 25 hours 39 minutes, with a top speed of 175 mph and an average speed of 110 mph, driven by Arne Toman and Doug Tabbutt.[2]. He passed away from stroke complications in 1975 aged just 46. The New York-to-Los Angeles Cannonball driving record has been broken yet again, according to former coast-to-coast record holder and insider Ed Bolian. Interestingly, the band did record some tracks at The Club the same year, 1966, they recorded this album. After a few measures, he drops into a repeating figure and the band jumps in with a bass heavy funk groove. It was entirely possible that a combo would be made up entirely of luminaries who had their own stable of musicians that they recorded their own albums with. The list also includes solos for flute, clarinet and EWI. Contemporary record-setting runs are typically driven by a team of drivers and copilots in a high-performance, but unsuspecting car.