Remedy du Jour -- February 16, 2013

1958 was a golden year in the Jazz Age, which would be all but over a decade later. Nobody exemplified that classic time more than Miles Davis, who would release the seminal Kind of Blue a year later.

Today we'll revisit Miles in 1958. The Something Else album quoted below was a Cannonball Adderly session in name only. Every musician listed below is a jazz legend.

This is beautiful stuff, the finest flowering of American culture. I was 5 years old in 1958. Miles would record the best-selling jazz album of all time in 1959. Although there would be many fine musical moments to come, some would argue that by the 1960s the best had already come and gone.

• On Green Dolphin Street — from the "58 Sessions", personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet), Cannonball Adderley (alto saxophone), John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Bill Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums)
• Milestones — the title tune from the 1958 album, personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet), Cannonball Adderley (alto saxophone), John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums)
• Love For Sale — from the "58 Sessions", same personnel as above
• One For Daddy-O — from Cannonball Adderly's Something Else, personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet), Cannonball Adderley (alto saxophone), Hank Jones (piano), Sam Jones (bass), Art Blakey (drums), released on Blue Note's Miles Davis Ballads And Blues
  
• Autumn Leaves — from Something Else, same personnel as above

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Julian Bond]

2 years old in '58! I suspect that Sketches Of Spain is actually his finest work despite being some strange side project. My favs are actually "In a silent way" and "Get up with it" but that's probably to do with how I came to his work.

[Oliver]

Nice to chill out to, thanks.