Jazz Articles about Cannonball Adderley

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet: The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco

by Jim Santella
May 15, 2007

Reissued as part of Concord's Keepnews Collection, this classic Riverside album has stood the test of time. Brothers Julian “Cannonball Adderley and Nat Adderley had a terrific quintet going when they hit San Francisco in 1959 for a four-week run at The Jazz Workshop. They had soul, they had rhythm, and they had blues. This is straight-ahead jazz the way we like to remember it. Cannonball Adderley expressed it best, as he spoke to his audiences about the feelings deep ...

Cannonball Adderley: In New York, In Europe, Domination

by George Kanzler
May 27, 2006

Cannonball Adderley In New York OJC 2005 Cannonball Adderley In Europe Blue Note 2005 Cannonball Adderley Domination Blue Note 2005 Alto saxophonist Julian “Cannonball Adderley led one of the most popular groups in jazz in the early '60s. So popular, in fact, that for three-and-a-half years ...

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley: Why Am I Treated So Bad!

by Chris May
May 18, 2006

By the time Why Am I Treated So Bad! was recorded over three sessions in March and July 1967, Cannonball Adderley's joyous soul jazz had begun to develop a rictus. Things could still get greasy, but the music was starting to get formulaic around the edges. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!, recorded by the same lineup in 1966, is arguably the last Adderley album to slow-cook righteously from start to finish. At its best, this recording is almost as good, but there ...

Cannonball Adderley: Great Sessions

by Chris May
April 23, 2006

A less cohesive and chronologically compact collection than the others in Blue Note/Capitol's new budget priced Great Sessions series, Cannonball Adderley's set offers a potpourri of three albums recorded for Blue Note, Riverside and Capitol between 1958 and 1966, charting the saxophonist's trajectory from blues-drenched Charlie Parker disciple to soul-jazz pioneer.

The cream in the coffee, of course, is Somethin' Else, recorded for Blue Note in 1958 and here in its RVG remaster edition. The greatest of Adderley's early albums, ...

Cannonball Adderley: Domination

by Chris May
August 27, 2005

Domination is a curious curate's egg of an album, not previously available on CD, and some of it bears considerable historical interest. Tracks 1-8, recorded in '65 and originally released as Domination, feature Cannonball and Nat Adderley over big band charts arranged by Oliver Nelson. The twenty-minute closing track, recorded in '70, features the two Adderleys and Joe Zawinul performing Zawinul and William Fischer's early fusion suite “Experience In E" over an almost symphonic orchestra arranged by Fischer. Somewhere along ...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

by Jim Santella
March 12, 2005

Columbia's latest release of this essential album includes the original liner notes by Bill Evans, a new liner note essay by Robert Palmer, a bonus track alternate take of “Flamenco Sketches," a 25-minute documentary DVD on Kind of Blue, and the original music itself. It sounds as good today as it did 46 years ago. In the words of television journalist and jazz devotee Ed Bradley, “It's as strong today as it was for me in ...

Cannonball Adderley: Live Session

by Andrew Rowan
October 3, 2004

The two sessions that comprise this reissue were recorded live in Los Angeles at the Lighthouse ('64) and Memory Lane ('62), offering a snapshot of the era's mainstream offerings. Not as well known as Adderley's work with Nancy Wilson, this session is nonetheless a worthy companion. Eschewing the standards route with the sleek and responsive Adderley quintet, Andrews--in fine voice--sings a program of jazz originals, blues ballads and a well-worn warhorse or two. In fact, some songs were ...