Cannonball Adderley

Featuring: Bill Evans

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Insert and obi included.

1958, the Riverside debut: Cannonball Adderley with Blue Mitchell's singing trumpet and a rhythm section anchored by Bill Evans - a fascinating pairing on paper, the most exuberant altoist of the era over the most introspective of pianists, and in practice it works beautifully: Evans's harmonic shading gives Cannonball's sunshine unexpected depths of field. "Nardis" receives its first recording here, beginning that composition's long strange journey through Evans's career - a piece of history hiding inside a blowing date. Around it, blues and standards dispatched with the generosity that made Cannonball beloved by musicians and audiences alike: every chorus a gift, nothing hoarded, the joy structural rather than decorative. This session opens the great Riverside run that would carry him through the quintet years to genuine stardom, and it repays close listening as much as casual pleasure.

Japanese mono pressing, clean and present - the connoisseur's route into fifties Riverside, as ever.