One of the better tracks from "Cool Struttin'" by Sonny Clark, one of those jazz albums I bought years ago but haven't listened to nearly enough. Hard bop is the term for it, according to Wikipedia.
Fun Wiki-fact: trumpeter Art Farmer, who plays on this track, rented his trumpet out to Miles Davis who had had to sell his own for drugs. Not-so-fun-fact: Miles Davis died in Santa Monica, not so far from where I live. I'm going to have to go pay my respects some time, In a Silent Way. The thought makes me Kind of Blue--he really was Somethin' Else!*
*Somethin' Else is a great album, and he plays on it, but it's Cannonball Adderley's claim to fame, so I'm only including this in the Groaner-Title-Drop-fest because I couldn't think of a better third without using one of the albums with the word 'Miles' in the title.
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