Theme music for Daddy-O Daylie, a long-time rhyming jazz radio show host in Chicago.
"Can't sleep? Don't count sheep - Count Basie!" I used to listen to Daddy-O's noon show every day while at college. It was sad to hear this Cannonball Adderley record each day while he was in a coma in 1975, never to recover.
"Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll never meet some of our most interesting citizens!"
Ooo, pa, pa doo. Had this 1958 side in high school. Such simplicity and yet such extraordinary musicianship. Skill with difficult instruments has almost totally disappeared from jazz. Now we got poets with drums and a few guys playing jazz lite on the radio. The appreciation for this kind of soaring skill has dwindled at our peril. Miles is so good here. I like how he took sideman status on the Adderley bro's date.
I don't agree that 'skill ...has disappeared from jazz' . What about Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Craig Taborn, Chris Dave, Robert Glasper, Ambrose Akinmusire, Jason Moran, Vijay Iyer, Wynton, Tim Berne, Roy Hargrove? I do agree that the younger musicians aren't getting the exposure that they need but that starts from us listening and supporting them.