frogman Thanks for the clarification, Maybe if I can find the time I can delve a little deeper into the article and it might change my assessment of the author. When one looks at it from the perspective of the many labels and recordings that van Gelder engineered You do get a sense of how important He was in the documentation Of the jazz music of that time. And We should feel lucky that these smaller labels flourished at that time and the music was made available.
In research regarding the lp
"Somethin Else" I found a recording date of March 9th 1958. BTW Cannonball did not write any of the tunes On the album. Of the six Tunes miles wrote won the title song, Hank Jones another and Nat Adderley a third one. . The other three were standards.
Your points are well taken. It's an intriguing question. Obviously miles was signed to Columbia Records by this time. ? And probably wouldn't have received permission to be the leader on another labels album. Miles also did not take a backseat to anyone at this point in his career And would not have taken well To receiving directions about how to "play" on an album.
Not that that would have happened because I have never seen anything in writing Or a video interview with a jazz musician where they were told What or how to play. In fact, the opposite is true.
But it still is Cannonballs name at the top And until someone close to the recording / production says otherwise, I guess we'll have to accept that.
In research regarding the lp
"Somethin Else" I found a recording date of March 9th 1958. BTW Cannonball did not write any of the tunes On the album. Of the six Tunes miles wrote won the title song, Hank Jones another and Nat Adderley a third one. . The other three were standards.
Your points are well taken. It's an intriguing question. Obviously miles was signed to Columbia Records by this time. ? And probably wouldn't have received permission to be the leader on another labels album. Miles also did not take a backseat to anyone at this point in his career And would not have taken well To receiving directions about how to "play" on an album.
Not that that would have happened because I have never seen anything in writing Or a video interview with a jazz musician where they were told What or how to play. In fact, the opposite is true.
But it still is Cannonballs name at the top And until someone close to the recording / production says otherwise, I guess we'll have to accept that.