Hot Flutes

Ray Brown died in 2002, yet his name still appears in the credits of the 2021 album Deciphering the Message — a record built not from new sessions but from re-edited vintage Blue Note tape, so a half-century-old bass take turns up on a release dated almost two decades after the player's death.

Somethin' Else (1958) carries Cannonball Adderley's name, and it is one of the few dates where Miles Davis shows up as a sideman. The piano chair went not to anyone from Miles's own band but to Hank Jones, then largely a studio hand.