Cannonball Adderley And The Poll Winners [Remastered] - Cannonball Adderley

Advantages: Outrageously good! Music, playing, production, booklet - everything is great!
Disadvantages: I honestly can't think of one thing.

...'Milestones' is just that - a landmark in jazz. Recorded the year before the classic 'Kind Of Blue', this is the record that started it all. It is remembered as Miles' first conceptual use of modal jazz, despite the fact that the blues dominate the album. However, this is no kind of blue - this is a frenzy of white hot hard bop action. The personnel list for the album is similar to 'Kind Of Blue', with Coltrane on tenor sax, Cannonball Adderley on alto sax and Paul Chambers on bass all joining Miles on both albums. However, Red Garland on piano and Philly Joe Jones, who appear on 'Milestones', were replaced by Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans on piano, and Jimmy Cobb on drums by the time 'Kind Of Blue' was recorded. Track listing 1. Dr. Jackle, 2. Sid's Ahead, 3. Two Bass Hit, 4. Milestones, 5. Billy Boy, 6. Straight, No Chaser. Bonus... Read review

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Advantages: moody bass
Disadvantages: nothing lyrics

...Cannonball is probably the breeders most famous, most well known, and possibly their most financially and commercially successfull record. Its very much a moody rock song with the moodiest bass line you are lickley ever to hear. Backed up by scathing guitars and whispering vocals by Miss Kim Deal the former bass player from the pixies. Typically it sounds like one she wrote for the pixies but thought Im keeping this one for later. It certainly took the breeders to new heoights and made them bigger than the pixies, althought with nirvana name dropping things might have changed.... Read review

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...Kind of Blue might have received most of the acclaim but Milestones, the recorded debut of the Miles Davis Sextet, is in the same league. This remarkable super group (featuring Davis's trumpet, tenor-saxophonist John Coltrane, altoist Cannonball Adderley, pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones) was arguably the greatest one Miles Davis ever led. "Two Bass Hit" features the two saxes trading off with fire and "Billy Boy" showcases the Red Garland trio (showing what they learned from Ahmad Jamal), but "Straight No Chaser" really demonstrates what a powerhouse band this was.... Read review

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