R S on ALLMusic sums up Adam’s Apple better than I can, and I agree with his sentiments, so here it is:
The mid-60’s was the peak of the post-bop era in modern jazz history and it’s greatest ever musicians, which included Miles Davis Quintet members Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, shone brightly either as sidemen for Miles or as leaders on their own records (and in Hancock’s case, a sideman for Shorter as well). Wayne Shorter’s Adam’s Apple, which features Hancock on piano was recorded before his amazing work on Miles Davis’s Miles Smiles and Sorcerer yet after Hancock’s famed Empyrean Isles and Maiden Voyage albums and both his record with Miles Quintet on Columbia, ESP and his own Speak No Evil, which had yet to be released when this album was recorded. Adam’s Apple is something of a subdued, late night post-bop affair compared to the relaxed but more energetic evening feel of Speak No Evil and it’s more centered around Shorter since he’s the only horn, but he gives plenty of room for the band as a whole shine. Hancock in particular with his trademark light, lyrical, playful, and groovin’ sound, is great as always, especially on the albums finest tracks, 502 Blues (Drinkin’ and Drivin’) (one of the album’s best ballads), Footprints (the first recorded version) and Teru, one of the prettiest jazz ballads ever created, easily up there with Coltrane’s Naima.
Luckily that set is available to be streamed…I’ve enjoyed his new ‘ZIM’ compositions via qobuz…I don’t have a Blu-ray player. I don’t know why Firehouse 12 went with that format.
I don’t think they thought it through, and figured one disc would be a convenience. I had not thought to investigate Qobuz for it, good idea. Better than playing mine on a Blu-ray player. By the way, Chad just emailed me and the Ivo Perelman Reed Rapture in Brooklyn is planned for a CD box set release, no firm date yet.
Great, If you get further info on the box set, please post to the thread.
I’m thinking of getting a Reavon universal disk player and a Geerfab breakout box. This will allow me to play the dsd layer from sacd disks and pcm from Blu-ray disks. Ripping sacd disks is a pain.
“Lady in Satin” makes me so sad though. . .I can hardly play it. I have a European CBS 3 cd set that is interesting . . .but it’s even more sad to listen to.
Now playing:
Perhaps an appropriately named June Christy album. (I’m actually listening to this on cd, the second half of the two-LPs-on-one-cd that is the Capitol cd “The Song is June.”)
The interplay between Ikue Mori, Erik Friedlander, and Sylvie Couvoisier on this introspective release Claws and Wings is most delicate, verging on a sad but in the end reconciled mood.
I need the boost that comes from Slim Gaillard’s competent silliness. A bonafide master musician . . .and natural entertainer. I never tire of his music.
This just came in from amazon. It completes my collection of all 25 of the AudioWave XRCD24 Blue Note titles.
Now I can work on finishing off my Japanese RVG editions of Blue Note titles. Only need about 40. . . but it may take the rest of my life–a lot of these are expensive.
Freddie Hubbard “Open Sesame” Blue Note/Audio Wave XRCD24
