What Are You Listening To?

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Mmmm. Interesting...

The CD cover has Adderley's name in a different colour on the front, and it's listed as Adderley on the spine.

The text in the booklet talks about him being the band leader, and states that this was recorded "nearly a month before the saxophonist made his first studio session under Davis's leadership".

It seems his previous recording had been "made with the Davis Sextet minus its' leader".

Don't know how these things worked, but there is also discussion of Adderley's considerable debts at the time, & I wonder if Miles gave him the credits to help him out financially.

It is strange, indeed!
On his Wikipedia Discography page he is listed as a leader and not as a sideman but, the album is shown as with Miles Davis and it comes between Cannonball's Sharpshooters and Portrait of Cannonball.

Prior to joining the Miles Davis band, Adderley formed his own group with his brother Nat after signing onto the Savoy jazz label in 1957. He was noticed by Miles Davis, and it was because of his blues-rooted alto saxophone that Davis asked him to play with his group.
Adderley joined the Miles Davis sextet in October 1957, three months prior to John Coltrane's return to the group. Adderley played on the seminal Davis records Milestones and Kind of Blue. This period also overlapped with pianist Bill Evans's time with the sextet, an association that led to recording Portrait of Cannonball and Know What I Mean?.