Dreaming of the Masters

You know, sometimes we're not prepared for adversity.  When it happens sometimes, we're caught short.  We don't know exactly how to handle it when it comes up.  Sometimes we don't know just what to do when adversity takes over.  Heh, heh.

Here's the  irrepressibly exuberant Cannonball (Cannibal) Adderley, along with his brother Nat, keyboardist Joe Zawinul, Victor Gaskin (bass) and Roy McCurdy (drums), performing Zawinul's composition Mercy Mercy Mercy in 1966 live at Capitol's Hollywood studio with an open bar and quite possibly the best-sounding audience ever.  

The song's a mainstream jazz classic and became a surprise hit for Adderley, reaching #11 on the Billboard charts.  It's far from the avant free jazz or Eastern-influenced spirituality of previous posts here, but it's still a killer song and well worth remembering 52 years later.