SOMETHIN ELSE/VINYLE COULEUR AUDIOPHILE 180GR

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With: Cannonball Adderley (alto sax.), Miles Davis (trumpet), Hank Jones (piano), Sam Jones (bass), Art Blakey (drums).
Tell us about a legendary partnership and an album that is just as legendary. Tell us about Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and Miles Davis. Tell us about "Somethin' Else", which has always left us wondering if it was a record by the altoist that makes us feel the blues in a way that overwhelms us with happiness – or like a "big motherfucker," as Miles says in his unfiltered autobiography – or by the trumpeter who had never invested himself so deeply in another's 33 RPM (if we set aside the 78s recorded a decade earlier with Cannonball's hero, Charlie Parker). To be honest, it doesn't matter, since the intoxicating flavors of one and the brassy zest of the other work wonders. Never again did we hear Les Feuilles Mortes or Love For Sale in the same way after this record, this masterpiece from the late 1950s that, at the dawn of the 2020s, has still not aged a bit. Yes, "Somethin' Else" is truly something else.