Vinyl Wednesday: The Cannonball Adderly-Nat Adderly Quintet:Live in Europe
Soulful uplifting hardbop, excellent band, one of the best alto sax players ever. This recording is one of the reasons I love listening and playing jazz so much. Cannonball always makes me happy. I love his energetic phrasing and his tone is marvellous. One of my absolute favourite saxophone players. Funky and smooth, agile working his way through the chords and blending with his brother on cornet. It's smart music and at the same time played with a lot of feeling and joy, something I miss in a lot of modern contemporary jazz. It may sound simple, but it's not. Musicians challenging each other and themselves and play melodic, grooving and entertaining, all at the same time without sounding arty-farty.
Here's the whole record, just found it on Youtube..
This is a tune called Jonesin', from my latest album Dark Horse, order it here or buy it at a concert. See agenda for the upcoming dates!On the album, this tune features Willie Jones III on drums, and in Bimhuis we had Yoràn Vroom with an also incredible drum solo.More info:Susanne Alt: sax, Matthijs Geerts and Ike van Bergen: keys, Thomas Pol: bass, Yoràn Vroom: drums, Helene Jank: percussion Performed at 16th of January 2026 at Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Recorded by Onno Prillwitz Filmed by Robert Glass and Albert Nooij. - Soulful uplifting hardbop, excellent band, one of the best alto sax players ever. This recording is one of the reasons I love listening and playing jazz so much. Cannonball always makes me happy. I love his energetic phrasing and his tone is marvellous. One of my absolute favourite saxophone players. Funky and smooth, agile working his way through the chords and blending with his brother on cornet.It's smart music and at the same time played with a lot of feeling and joy, something I miss in a lot of modern contemporary jazz. It may sound simple, but it's not. Musicians challenging each other and themselves and play melodic, grooving and entertaining, all at the same time without sounding arty-farty.Here's the whole record, just found it on Youtube..
