Cannonball Adderley Sextet Plays "Jive Samba":
Friday afternoon before a long weekend is a good time for some swinging bossa nova, don't you think? The Cannonball Adderley Sextet of the early 1960s was one of the most swinging jazz groups around, and YouTube has a particularly fun clip of the Sextet playing "Jiva Samba" in 1962. The clip starts with brief interview in which Adderly pokes fun at Dave Brubeck's then-raging commercial success (watch his smile) before introducing the members of the band: Yusef Lateef on tenor and flute, Adderly's brother Nat on trumpet, Joseph Zawinul on piano, Sam Jones on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums. If you enjoyed that, check out the group playing Work Song, too.