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
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
Thanks for doing the heavy lifting there, @charles1dad . I got bored with straight-ahead stuff that was common audiophile fodder, didn't completely understand "big band" and did not get into fusion after various hard rock.
What got me re-interested in jazz was the post-'70s era, when jazz was really off the map mainstream wise, and all these players were doing it for the music and the community (in the sense of the whole political and cultural movement at the time). What turned me on was "spiritual jazz," now a commercial term though when applied to the records from certain labels, such as Strata-East (with stratospheric prices) was a cool era. 
I just started surfing artists. One I dig-- still alive as of this writing- is Cecil McBee, who appeared on myriad jazz albums, mainly in the '70s and into the '80s. Most are small combo, spare, with improvisation. 
The classics are worth revisiting- current Blue Note reissues can be analog and cheap, ditto the more offbeat Tone Poet (Katanga! is worth buying now, while still in print). 
Read. Listen. Do more research about what you like.
Hell, I got back on to Art Pepper on a record he did late, with Cecil M. in 1979 rendering "Patricia" in a spare, modern style. Pick a lane. It's fun stuff to listen to, and there is a wealth of information accompanying it.