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Cannonball Adderley. Know What I Mean? Riverside/Original Jazz Classics RCD-9433-2, 1961; reissued 1987, 2001.
Originally recorded and released in 1961, then reissued in 1987 as part of Fantasy's Original Jazz Classics series, this recording was something of a summit meeting among three of the most significant jazz entities of the time: Adderley himself, already a hugely influential alto saxophonist in the hard bop style; pianist Bill Evans, whose lyrical, impressionistic playing was changing the way people thought about jazz piano; and the bass and drums duo of Percy Heath and Connie Kay, whose work with the Modern Jazz Quartet was bringing jazz to wider audiences with its dignified, classically-influenced approach. The combination may not be an obviously felicitous one, but it works wonderfully, thanks primarily to Adderley's ability to ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Cannonball Adderley. (Sound Recording Reviews).