Cannonball Adderry

This CD contains private recordings of Cannonball Adderley's groups during 1967-68 playing at the Half Note in New York City. The music is quite worthy with altoist Cannonball Adderley featured in a quartet setting on "Stars Fell on Alabama," performing three songs with his quintet (including "Fiddler on the Roof") and playing three other pieces (highlighted by "Work Song" and "Unit Seven") with the sextet he had that featured Charles Lloyd on tenor. This music is generally superior to Adderley's commercial Capitol recordings of the period. ~ Scott Yanow

By the time of the Somethin' Else session, Cannonball's sound had considerably more nuance, with darker tones and more brooding solos. Nonetheless, the Parker influence continued to shine, and the whole session has a sense of relaxation that results in music that is truly joyous.

1973's INSIDE STRAIGHT is one of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley's last studio recordings–he was dead within two years of its release. But unlike some recordings made toward the end of a jazz innovator's career, it's as exciting and impassioned as most of the albums that precede it. Despite a somewhat suite-like structure–the first and last tracks are called "Introduction" and "The End," and themes recur throughout the eight tracks–this is a relaxed, swinging album…

De cd Cannonball Adderley: One For Daddy-O is de elfde in de serie Jazz at the Concertgebouw, die het Nederlands Jazz Archief sinds 2007 uitbrengt. De nieuwe cd in onze serie Jazz at the Concertgebouw presenteert twee optredens van altsaxofonist Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley in kwintetbezetting.

This is Cannonball's little big band with three horns out front performing compositions of Oscar Pettiford, Ernie Wilkins, and Quincy Jones, among others. Multi-instrumentalist and superbly talented Yusef Lateef is featured throughout these concert performances along with the band's brass section - to quote Cannonball Adderley - , cornetist Nat Adderely. The classic and most highly celebrated Cannonball Adderley rhythm section of bassist Sam Jones, drummer Louis Hayes, and pre-Weather Report pianist Joe Zawinul is on full display throughout these performances.