Jazz Music Question


Hi All,

I have been listening to music for 50 plus years and just don't have the jazz styles and artists locked in my mind like I do for rock.

So, anyway, I acquired Cannonball Adderley's "Somethin Else" and I think that it is fantastic.

What style/genre of jazz is this album?

I want more of the same - what artists or albums might you recommend?

Thanks for listening,

Dsper.


dsper
One more for you.  Sony Music released a CD called Chet Baker & Paul Desmond Together.  Contains the 7 studio tracks they recorded together (56 min).  Beautifully recorded and a real treat for listening.  
dsper -- give Hard Bop a try to find stuff similar to the Cannonball Adderley album..
Definitely hard bop.  I'd say he's most similar to Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson, and Dexter Gordon...and listen to Sonny Rollins too.
Since "Something Else is the Miles Davis Quintet with Cannonball as Leader, at least on paper, you might like"Milestone " or the ever popular " Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis.

@dsper,
This genre or era (Basically early1950s to early 1960s) is classified as "Hard Bop". This genre evolved from the "Be Bop" of the mid to late 1940s. There’s a ton of superb musicians and recordings to explore.

Record Labels from this timeframe such as "Blue Note", "Prestige" "Riverside" "Contemporary"
Artists from this era, Saxophonists, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins, Harold Land, Johnny Griffin, Benny Golson, Jackie McLean, Jimmy Heath, Gerry Mulligan , Pepper Adams, Art Pepper.

Trumpeters, Clifford Brown, Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Miles Davis (1950s pre Modal era) Joe Gordon, Chet Baker, Nat Adderley (Cannonball’s brother), Art Farmer.
Vibraphonist Milt Jackson I believe you’d enjoy.
There are many, many more from this fantastic period of jazz.
Charles