Cannonball Adderley – In The Land of HiFi (180g LP)

Label : Mercury MG 36077 ( Speakers Corner Records)
Just a glance at the list of musicians participating in the recording session in June 1956, is enough to send your blood racing through your veins..This recording fulfils all expectations and offers undiluted, swinging jazz of the very best order, the very best of its day! The glorious music-making of this “condensed” big band offers an ideal background for “Cannonball’s” on the whole carefree, racy solo passages, the solo contributions from Jimmy Cleavland on the trombone, Jerome Richardson on the flute, and of course Junior Mance on the piano are sheer joy. Not to forget “Cannonball’s” brother, Nat Adderly, who was often left in the shadows, whose brilliance on the cornet is heard loud and clear on this recording.