This is Cannonball's little big band with three horns out front
performing compositions of O 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. This collection is a reminder that Cannonball
Adderley was one of the most outstanding and highly respected
alto saxophonists in the history of jazz, a blues-based jazzman
who could play anything in superb fashion.
Review
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Cannonball Adderley: Live In '63 is a wonderful rtunity for
those of you familiar with the better known names in jazz to
begin to broaden your horizons to include this multi-talented
musician. Be amazed at his virtuosity and wonder at the breadth
of his understanding of music. Yet, perhaps, most of all, wonder
why you may not have heard him play before, because he's just too
good to have been missed for so long. -- Blog Critics Magazine,
Written by Richard Marcus, Sept. 3, 2008
Jazz Icons is doing for jazz what the Criterion Collection has
done for classic and important films. -- Jazz Times Magazine
The sound quality is first rate, and the performances are
extraordinary. -- Newsweek Magazine
What is the greatest hard bop jazz standard? Some might argue for
Bobby Timmons' "Moanin'" as performed by the composer and Art
Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Others may hold out for Joe
Zawinul's "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" or Richard Carpenter's "Walkin'"
as perfomed by Miles Davis. Still others are attached to Horace
Silver's "The Preacher" while yet another group is equally
adamant in its devotion to "The Sidewinder" by Lee Morgan. Well,
I place my vote for "Work Song," on which composer-cornetist Nat
Adderley incorporates all of the elements of funk, church, soul,
gospel, and grease that one could possibly cram into a single
hard-bop composition. What a pleasure to see the Cannonball
Adderley Sextet in Switzerland and Germany performing the
standard at the top of their game in 1963. -- AllAboutJazz.com,
C. Michael Bailey, October 2008
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From the Contributor
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This is Cannonball's little big band with three horns out front
performing compositions of O 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. This collection is a reminder that Cannonball
Adderley was one of the most outstanding and highly respected
alto saxophonists in the history of jazz, a blues-based jazzman
who could play anything in superb fashion.
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