Cannonball Adderley & Milt Jackson
Blues is certainly the foundation on both of these recordings, as can be heard immediately on Things Are Getting Better. Bags’ “Blues Oriental” is a 5-minute blues with colors suggested by its name. Jackson is first up and delivers a short and sweet lesson in the elegance and eloquence of the form. And what a rhythm section - with the tasteful and swinging Wynton Kelly (with whom Cannonball Adderley was to play in the Miles Davis Prestige group), MJQ bassist Percy Heath and … MORE
