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Somethin' Else is a jazz album by alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, his only album on the Blue Note label, recorded and released in 1958. Also on the session is trumpeter Miles Davis in one of his handful of recording dates for Blue Note. Adderley was a member of Davis' group at the time, and the album was recorded shortly after Davis' own landmark album Milestones. The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected Somethin' Else as part of its suggested "Core Collection."[6]

Somethin' Else
Studio album by Cannonball Adderley
Released	August 1958 (1958-08)[1]
Recorded	March 9, 1958
Studio	Van Gelder (Hackensack)
Genre	Jazz, hard bop, bebop
Length	38:44
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Alfred Lion
Cannonball Adderley chronology
Cannonball's Sharpshooters (1958) Somethin' Else (1958) Portrait of Cannonball (1958)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
Tom Hull	A−[4]
Jazzwise	[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[6]

Background

The album was recorded during Adderley's membership in the Miles Davis' First Great Quintet, and it also marks one of the few recordings Davis made as a sideman after 1955. Indeed, Davis plays several of the first solos, composed the bluesy title track and, according to the liner notes, chose most of the material.[7] "Autumn Leaves" would remain in the Davis book, and "Love for Sale" would be recorded by the Davis Sextet a little over two months later.[8] In the original liner notes for album, Miles is quoted as follows: "All my inspiration today comes from Ahmad Jamal, the Chicago pianist. I got the idea for this treatment of "Autumn Leaves" from him."

The twelve-bar blues "One for Daddy-O" was written by Adderley's brother Nat for Chicago radio DJ Holmes "Daddy-O" Daylie. At the end of that track, Davis can be heard addressing producer Alfred Lion, saying "is that what you wanted, Alfred?" Adderley and Davis would also play together on the 1958 Columbia Records release Milestones, as well as the 1959 landmark Kind of Blue, one of the most universally acclaimed jazz albums.

Reissue bonus tracks

In the 1980s, the album was re-issued with a bonus track from the recording session that was listed as "Alison's Uncle" and credited to Cannonball Adderley. The track appeared as "Alison's Uncle" on compact disc releases in the U.S. and Japan in 1986, and it continued to appear under this title, or as "Bangoon (aka Alison's Uncle)", on reissues into the 21st century. The composition is actually Hank Jones' "Bangoon", and first appeared on Gigi Gryce's 1957 Jubilee Records album Jazz Lab, with Jones playing piano. (Gryce also recorded a second version of the tune with Jones on his Gigi Gryce album.) The title "Alison's Uncle" was created by Nat Adderley in the 1980s when he was asked by reissue producers to name a track that they could not identify. Nat Adderly's alternate title refers to the fact that the session took place shortly after Nat's daughter Alison had been born.

An alternate take of "Autumn Leaves" was released as a bonus track on a 2013 CD release in Japan.

Track listing

Side one

Side two

1986 Blue Note CD bonus track (U.S. and Japan releases)

2013 Blue Note SHM-CD edition (Japan)

Personnel

References

External links

• Blue Note 1595 - List of reissues

На других языках

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[de] Somethin’ Else

Somethin’ Else ist ein 1958 aufgenommenes und veröffentlichtes Jazz-Album von Cannonball Adderley.

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- [en] Somethin' Else (Cannonball Adderley album)

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[ru] Somethin’ Else

Somethin’ Else — студийный альбом американского джазового музыканта Джулиана «Кэннонболла» Эддерли, выпущенный в 1958 году на лейбле Blue Note.

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