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Things Are Getting Better is the eleventh album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his second release on the Riverside label, featuring performances with Milt Jackson, Wynton Kelly, Percy Heath, and Art Blakey.[1] The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer awarded the album 4 stars and states "This disc can be recommended without hesitation to all manner of jazz enthusiast, as it quite literally offers something for every taste".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated
  1. "Blues Oriental" (Milt Jackson) - 5:03
  2. "Things Are Getting Better" - 7:13
  3. "Serves Me Right" [Take 5] (Buddy Johnson) - 4:48
  4. "Serves Me Right" [Alternate Take 4] (Johnson) - 4:38 Bonus track on CD reissue
  5. "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 5:23
  6. "The Sidewalks of New York" [Take 5] (Eubie Blake, Charles B. Lawlor) - 7:00
  7. "The Sidewalks of New York" [Alternate Take 4] (Blake, Lawlor) - 5:15 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Sounds for Sid" - 6:27
  9. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) - 6:45
  • Recorded at Reeves Sound Studio in New York City on October 28, 1958

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Cannonball Adderley discography accessed 19 October 2009
  2. ^ Planer, L. Allmusic Review accessed 19 October 2009
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