Ray Brown All-Star Big Band, Cannonball Adderley – With The All-Star Big Band (VG/VG+) – LP, US 1962

With The All-Star Big Band is an LP by Cannonball Adderley, Ray Brown All-Star Big Band from 1962 released on the Verve Records label.

About this album

A lively, hard-swinging big-band session, With The All-Star Big Band pairs Cannonball Adderley’s bright, blues-leaning alto with Ray Brown’s muscular ensemble sound. Recorded in 1962, it draws on jazz standards and taut original writing to balance swagger, melody and tight sectional interplay. Brown, already one of the defining bassists of his era, frames the band with groove and drive, while Adderley brings the bite and warmth that made him a major post-bop voice. The result is a polished but unfussy album that captures the energy of early-1960s jazz when big bands were still a vital setting for solo fire and orchestral punch.

Genre: Jazz