Cannonball Abbrey's "Know What I Mean" Album review

Hello once again viewers. I bring once again, yet another album review. Though, to be honest, I'm not as much of a fan of doing an album review than a average but what more can I say? I may have myself no choice but I don't mind. Anyway, let's get on with the review!

This album (created in 1961), is a jazz album with a total of ten songs featuring Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on Alto saxophone, Bill Evans on Piano, Percy Heath on Bass, and Connie Kay on Drums. These ten songs are called "Waltz for Debbie", "Who Cares?" (Take 5), "Who Cares?" (Take 4), "Venice", "Toy", "Elsa", "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)", "Know What I Mean?" (Re-take 7), and "Know What I Mean?" (Take 12).

I've got to say that my favorite songs in this album would have to be Waltz for Debbie, take 5 of Who Cares?, and Toy. Mainly because they're songs I felt like I could either dance to (like with Toy) or because I thought the song itself sounded interesting in every way that caught my attention all the way.

I however didn't enjoy the song Venice as much since it was a quiet song to me, the beginning was so quiet I could barely recognize it as music being made. But that probably means I have hearing problems or something so don't criticize just because I can't hear it well enough. Then there's also Elsa that I didn't enjoy as much since the beginning was a bit bad in my opinion and it just suit my tastes in music among the jazz genre. In other words, it wasn't as upbeat. I'm not saying the song was bad, it's just that it wasn't my style of jazz. Nancy (with the laughing face) also didn't catch my attention as much because it too wasn't upbeat and it sounded a bit depressing at the beginning in my opinion. It's also a rather slow song for a while and for some parts.

I sort of found the beginning of re-take 7's Know What I Mean until somewhere in the middle where it changed its transition. I didn't like the fact that it felt long and slow but after the transition it made the song much better. But around the end, it changed back. I'd probably leave this as an in-between for a like and dislike, mainly because there's some parts I like and others I don't. The same goes for the twelfth take of this song. I didn't like the beginning but once the transition came up that was when I had my attention on it. I give my remarks for this song the same as the seventh re-take. An in-between.

That's all that I've got for this review, if you like it or have anything nice to say about it feel free to add a comment below. If you want to hear the album yourself then feel free to check out the link below. Anyway, that's all I have to say. So see you guys in the next future post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmFfy56nSzY