Cannonball In Europe!

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Between 1962 and 1963, Cannonball Adderley played with a sextet that included bassist Sam Jones, drummer Louis Hayes, pianist Joe Zawinul, trumpeter Nat Adderley, and flautist, oboe, and tenor saxophonist Yusef Lateef. This excellent live CD, recorded at the International Jazz Festival in Belgium in 1962, captures the sextet's dynamic dazzle. The audience at the festival--some thirty to forty thousand people--was the largest the musicians had played before, and the excitement and energy is palpable in the performance. The band really stretches out on the opener, Lateef's "P. Bouk," an ambitious post-bop workout. Jimmy Heath's "Gemini" receives a tense, swinging, extended treatment, with driving solos all around. Stylistically, the music is quite exciting, drawing on elements of cool, bop, hard bop, and some of the more advanced ideas coming to prominence in early '60s jazz. Nat and Cannonball peel off agile, witty, blues-inflected solos at every turn, but Lateef steals the show with his changing arsenal of instruments and reservoir of distinctive ideas. This is an excellent representation not only of the quality of Adderley's work with this sextet, but of high caliber post bop from the era.