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{{Infobox album
| name         = Somethin' Else
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Cannonball Adderley]]
| cover        = Somethin’ Else.jpg
| alt          =
| released     = {{Start date|1958|8}}<ref>''American Record Guide'', September 1958</ref>
| recorded     = March 9, 1958
| venue        =
| studio       = [[Van Gelder Studio]]<br>[[Hackensack, NJ]]
| genre        = [[Jazz]], [[hard bop]], [[bebop]]
| length       = {{Duration|m=38|s=44}}
| label        = [[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]]<br>BLP 1595
| producer     = [[Alfred Lion]]
| prev_title   = [[Cannonball's Sharpshooters]]
| prev_year    = 1958
| next_title   = [[Portrait of Cannonball]]
| next_year    = 1958
}}
'''''Somethin' Else''''' is an album by American [[jazz]] saxophonist [[Cannonball Adderley|Julian "Cannonball" Adderley]], recorded on March 9, 1958 and released on [[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]] in August later that year—his only album for the label. Also on the session is [[trumpet]]er [[Miles Davis]] in one of his handful of recording dates for Blue Note. Adderley was a member of [[Miles Davis Quintet#First Great Quintet/Sextet (1955–58)|Davis' group]] at the time, and the album was recorded shortly after Davis' own landmark album ''[[Milestones (Miles Davis album)|Milestones]]''.
==Background==
The album was recorded during Adderley's membership in the [[Miles Davis Quintet#First Great Quintet/Sextet (1955–59)|Miles Davis' First Great Quintet]], and it also marks one of the few recordings Davis made as a [[sideman]] after 1955. Indeed, Davis plays several of the first solos, composed the bluesy title track and, according to the liner notes, chose most of the material.<ref>''Somethin' Else'', [[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]] 95329-2, [[liner notes]].</ref> "[[Autumn Leaves (1945 song)|Autumn Leaves]]" would remain in the Davis book, and "[[Love for Sale (song)|Love for Sale]]" would be recorded by the Davis Sextet a little over two months later.<ref>''[[Kind of Blue]]'' deluxe edition, [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] 27105-2, liner notes.</ref> Miles, as quoted in the original liner notes, recounted, "All my inspiration today comes from [[Ahmad Jamal]], the Chicago pianist. I got the idea for this treatment of 'Autumn Leaves' from him."
The [[twelve-bar blues]] "One for Daddy-O" was written by Adderley's brother [[Nat Adderley|Nat]] for Chicago radio DJ Holmes "Daddy-O" Daylie. At the end of that track, Davis can be heard addressing producer [[Alfred Lion]], saying "is that what you wanted, Alfred?"
=== "Bangoon" ===
In the 1980s, the album was re-issued with a [[bonus track]] from the recording session that was listed as "Alison's Uncle" and credited to Cannonball Adderley. The track appeared as "Alison's Uncle" on [[compact disc]] releases in the U.S. and Japan in 1986, and it continued to appear under this title, or as "Bangoon (aka Alison's Uncle)", on reissues into the 21st century. The composition is actually [[Hank Jones|Hank Jones']] "Bangoon", and first appeared on [[Gigi Gryce|Gigi Gryce's]] 1957 Jubilee Records album ''[[Jazz Lab (Jubilee album)|Jazz Lab]]'', with Jones playing piano. (Gryce also recorded a second version of the tune with Jones on his ''[[Gigi Gryce (album)|Gigi Gryce]]'' album.) The title "Alison's Uncle" was created by [[Nat Adderley]] in the 1980s when he was asked by reissue producers to name a track that they could not identify. Nat Adderley's alternate title refers to the session having taken shortly after his daughter Alison had been born.{{Fact|date=March 2023}}
== Reception ==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r134300|label=Somethin' Else}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Jazzwise]]''
| rev4score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Cannonball Adderley – Somethin' Else ★★★★★ |url=https://www.jazzwise.com/review/article/cannonball-adderley-somethin-else |website=[[Jazzwise]] |access-date=30 July 2020 |language=en |date=August 26, 2015}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]''
| rev5Score = {{rating|4|4}}<ref name="Penguin Guide"/>
| rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|edition=5th|isbn=978-0857125958|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
| rev3 = [[Tom Hull (critic)|Tom Hull]]
| rev3Score = A−<ref>{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=n.d.|url=http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/nm/shop/jazz-40s.html|title=Jazz (1940–50s) (Reference)|website=tomhull.com|access-date=March 4, 2020}}</ref>
| rev6 = [[DownBeat]]
| rev6score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Cerulli">{{cite magazine|last=Cerulli|first=Dom|date=27 November 1958|title=Review of Somethin' Else|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/DownBeat/IDX/50s/Down-Beat-1958-11-27-25-24-IDX-30.pdf|magazine=DownBeat|access-date=20 November 2023}} </ref>
}}''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]'' selected ''Somethin' Else'' as part of its suggested "Core Collection."<ref name="Penguin Guide">{{cite book |last=Cook |first=Richard |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |author2=Brian Morton |publisher=Penguin |year=2006 |isbn=0-14-102327-9 |edition=8th |series=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]] |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/9 9] |chapter=Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley |author-link=Richard Cook (journalist) |author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/9 |orig-year=1992 |chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref>
==Track listing==
=== Original release ===
{{tracklist
| headline = Side 1
| title1 = [[Autumn Leaves (1945 song)|Autumn Leaves]]
| writer1 = [[Joseph Kosma]], [[Johnny Mercer]], [[Jacques Prévert]]
| length1 = 10:55
| title2 = [[Love for Sale (song)|Love for Sale]]
| writer2 = [[Cole Porter]]
| length2 = 7:01
}}{{tracklist
| headline = Side 2
| title1 = Somethin' Else
| writer1 = [[Miles Davis]]
| length1 = 8:15
| title2 = One for Daddy-O
| writer2 = [[Nat Adderley]]
| length2 = 8:26
| title3 = [[Dancing in the Dark (Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz song)|Dancing in the Dark]]
| writer3 = [[Arthur Schwartz]], [[Howard Dietz]]
| length3 = 4:07
}}
===CD reissues===
{{tracklist
| title1 = [[Autumn Leaves (1945 song)|Autumn Leaves]]
| writer1 = [[Joseph Kosma]], [[Johnny Mercer]], [[Jacques Prévert]]
| length1 = 10:55
| title2 = [[Love for Sale (song)|Love for Sale]]
| writer2 = [[Cole Porter]]
| length2 = 7:01
| title3 = Somethin' Else
| writer3 = [[Miles Davis]]
| length3 = 8:15
| title4 = One for Daddy-O
| writer4 = [[Nat Adderley]]
| length4 = 8:26
| title5 = [[Dancing in the Dark (Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz song)|Dancing in the Dark]]
| writer5 = [[Arthur Schwartz]], [[Howard Dietz]]
| length5 = 4:07
| title6 = Bangoon
| writer6 = [[Hank Jones]]
| note6 = aka "Alison's Uncle"
| length6 = 5:05
| title7 = Autumn Leaves
| note7 = Alternate Take; 2013 Blue Note SHM-CD Japan bonus track
| writer7 = Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert
| length7 = 9:33
}}
==Personnel==
=== Musicians ===
* [[Cannonball Adderley]] – alto saxophone
* [[Miles Davis]] – trumpet
* [[Hank Jones]] – piano
* [[Sam Jones (musician)|Sam Jones]] – bass
* [[Art Blakey]] – drums
=== Technical personnel ===
* [[Alfred Lion]] – producer
* [[Rudy Van Gelder]] – recording engineer
* [[Reid Miles]] – design
* [[Francis Wolff|Frank Wolff]] – photography
* [[Leonard Feather]] – liner notes<ref>{{Cite web |last=Havers |first=Richard |date=March 9, 2021 |title='Somethin' Else': Cannonball Adderley And Miles Davis' Musical Discourse |url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/rediscover-cannonball-adderley-somethin-else/ |access-date=July 14, 2021}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/1595.htm Blue Note 1595 - List of reissues]
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