CD: Cannonball Adderley

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet In San Francisco (Riverside). This is the 1959 recording that made Adderley and his band famous and the Riverside label a stable enterprise. It is one of five albums inititating a new series of recordings overseen by Orrin Keepnews, now well into his second half-century as a leading jazz producer. It includes previously unissued takes of “You Got It!” and of “This Here,” the hit indelibly associated with Adderley. If you have never discovered the excitement and joy Cannonball generated with his brother Nat, Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes, this welcome reissue is the perfect introduction. The first batch of the Keepnews Collection reissues also has CDs by Thelonious Monk, Joe Henderson, Wes Montgomery and Kenny Dorham. Thoughts about them later. I presume that there will be more to come, from Bill Evans, for instance, George Russell, Jimmy Heath, Yusef Lateef, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Hutcherson, Mulgrew Miller and other beneficiaries of the Keepnews touch.