“2010 NEA Jazz Masters Recipients Announced”
The National Endowment For The Arts has announced the 2010 Jazz Masters Fellowship recipients. They include Bobby Hutcherson (pictured above), Cedar Walton and Yusef Lateef.
From their website:
"The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowships are the highest honors that our government bestows upon jazz musicians. These fellowships are given in recognition that this magnificent art form, so profoundly based in American culture, is one of America's greatest gifts to the world."
All the recipients can be seen here.
Listening Room – “Dizzy’s Business”
Cannonball Adderley - "Dizzy's Business"
Cannonball Adderley - "Jive Samba"
From "Dizzy's Business" : 1990 (Recorded 1963) : Milestone Records
These tracks by the Cannonball Adderley Sextet were recorded in Tokyo and San Francisco in 1963, but were not released until 1990. This was a great group playing at top form, with Joe Zawinul on piano (before he revolutionized the synthesizer playing with Miles Davis just a few years later) and Yusef Lateef on flute, oboe and tenor sax.
Players:
Cannonball Adderley - Alto Sax
Yusef Lateef - Tenor Sax, Flute, Oboe
Nat Adderley - Cornet
Sam Jones - Bass
Louis Hayes - Drums
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