So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

This is the first time I have spun this since Rev. Jackson passed.

Cannonball Adderley Quintet “Country Preacher” Capitol cd

I forget how powerful this disc is. This Quintet had paid its dues and their funkiness here comes right from the expertise in jazz performance they amassed working together. It’s blues, jazz, all music out of one source according to Cannon here.

Cannonball’s playing is so gut and flow but always, on soprano or alto, has a beauty of its own, an inevitablity from his skill, that sort of melodic beauty and inevitability of Bird, or the Rabbit on alto. . . .

Great stuff. Zawinul really shines here.