"The Cannonball Adderley Quintet with Nat Adderley Live in San Francisco"

The title here explains it all. Julian "Cannonball" Adderley in 1959 left the Miles Davis Sextet after making music history with the band, especially the album "Kind of Blue" and others of course but Adderley and his cornet playing brother Nat were ready to re-form their quintet. The first one was not too successful financially and Nat joined Woody Herman's band and later trombonist J.J.Johnson and Cannonball went with Miles but by 1959 the time was ripe. The Adderley Brothers settled on a stable personnel in the persons of pianist /composer Bobby Timmons, late of Art Blakey's Jazz messengers, bassist Sam Jones, late of Thelonious Monk's group and young drummer, Louis Hayes, late of Horace Silver's quintet and during an engagement in San Francisco at the legendary Jazz Workshop in October of 1959 the group came together and made this recording. It became a best seller for Riverside Records and put Adderley on the map as a great bandleader. This was the beginning. The premise of this month's 4 Jazz Features are recordings that were dismissed as inconsequential by the "esteemed" Jazz critics. This album was given a poor rating and dismissed. It is now a classic and one of the best loved of Adderley's vast output.We will present one of these types of dates in all the Jazz features in November. So tonight enjoy the warm swinging and funky sounds of Cannonball Adderley and Company at The Jazz Workshop.......a classic!