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| | Somethin' Else | | | Music Artist : | | Cannonball Adderley | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Blue Note Records | | Release Date : | | 1999-03-09 | | Store Price : | | $8.94 | | Artistopia's Price: $7.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Autumn Leaves
2. Love for Sale
3. Somethin' Else
4. One for Daddy-O
5. Dancing in the Dark
6. Bangoon [#][*]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 RVG is destroying great jazz masterpieces
Submitted on: 2009-09-21 |
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This is a MONO recording ! UPC 2434953292 shows EMI Music Distribution recording mode as STEREO which may actually be the case, however this RVG Edition is remastered in MONO and not a very good one. Presents a narrow sound stage with instruments on top of one another. I have some very well mastered "MONO" recordings but this is not one of them.
Clearly feel cheated on this one, as I have to buy the original Blue Note release.
Please do not buy into the hype about 24 bit analog to digital transfer because the results are borderline amateurish, like someone was messing around with their laptop software.
This is not the only landmark recording RVG has ruined. "Moaning" by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers is another one to be avoided. |
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 A perfect record
Submitted on: 2009-06-20 |
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| I've listened to this album for many years--just perfect, there's no other word. Miles taking out "Love for Sale" is unbelievable. One of the five best jazz albums ever made, imho. |
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Spectacular contributions by Miles Davis
Submitted on: 2009-04-20 |
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| I have been listening to recordings of jazz from this era for 30 years, with particular focus on people like Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and others. I don't know how this gem got past me. I just discovered it about 3 months ago and it's a beauty. Cannonball Adderly is a fine player, of course, but this recording is also indispensable for Miles Davis fans. As others have pointed out, if one just listens to the record without knowing, you'd think it was a Miles Davis record, so prominent is his role and how impeccable his playing. |
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In My Top 3 Miles Albums
Submitted on: 2009-04-05 |
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Somethin' Else is specatacular. Very much in the same category as Kind Of Blue. Miles Davis is a lyrical as he ever was and I think he might just be playing with the best alto player ever...other than Bird.
Autumn Leaves is a Miles track that embodies everything in the career of the greatest Trumpet player ever to live. (along with of course Diz & Pops [Louis Armstrong]). The way the composition transitions from a light hearted tune that you might listen to out in the field under a tall tree on a hot summer day. To the chilling closing phase that begins to bring in the clouds and the reflecting gentle glow of light that passes through them. Miles was ever changing and delivered both beautiful and haunting results.
The other track that really strikes me is Love For Sale. This is Davis at his most spectacular. He sounds just like 2pac ripping through a rhyme. At times 2pac sounded like Miles. This track is just simply awesome. So much bravado and coolness, elegance and completely on point.
The entire album is amazing. The other two tracks Miles plays on, Somethin' Else (Davis Composition) & One For Daddy-O are great!
Cliche and corny to say it, but Somethin' Else is just that! |
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oh yeah...
Submitted on: 2008-12-13 |
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| this album swings like somethin' else, but I don't know what. Like other reviewers have said before me, there isn't anything fancy here; just four grown men playin' swinging, groovy, mellow jazz. For me, this is the jazz equivalent of when a movie buff says to themselves, "Tonight, I just want to watch a movie for Chrissake!" The longer you explore the sounds of jazz, up to the way it sounds - or doesn't - in our time, "Somethin' Else" grooves more mellow each time, like Kentucky bourbon. It's the poor man's "Kind of Blue." Check it out and don't forget your dancin' shoes. |
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