Sunday Music Muse Day - Cannonball Adderey Sextet, Jazz Instrumentals

Today's Sunday Music Muse Day, finds me in "old school" mood. First up, the Cannonball Adderley Sextet Dizzy's Business.  This is live recordings from two concerts in 1962 and 1963.  The stellar lineup includes Joe Zawinul (pre-Weather Report) on piano, and Yusef Lateef on flute, Oboe, and tenor saxophone.  (Lateef's oboe playing on "Love Theme from Spartacus" on his Eastern Sounds is a favorite of mine)  Even the cover photo has a classic feel. The liner notes nails it: "...(The CD) captures one of the outstanding jazz groups of the '60s at it's scorching, soulful best."  This CD is worth seeking out.

Next is The Very Best of Jazz Instrumental.  The title of this 3-disc anthology collection say it all. It's  "45 Original Jazz Classics".  I personally prefer instrumental music most of the time.  Also, I like to recommend anthologies to new jazz fans to get a good sampling of jazz tunes, and styles, they might like, before diving to specific artists.  Almost everyone offers Miles Davis' Kind of Blue as the starting point for a novice jazz listener, a good choice, but variety is the spice of life, in music.  A cool packaging touch, is the CDs looking like vinyl records.

I think you can find a lot of music to enjoy in these two choice.  Have great day.