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Tom Scott: Cannon Re-Loaded: An All Star Celebration of Cannonball Adderley

AAJ Italy Staff By AAJ Italy Staff

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Folgorato in giovane età dalle performance di Julian Adderley nei classicissimi Milestones e Kind of Blue, Tom Scott rende omaggio alla figura immortale del saxofonista di Tampa con un album raffinato e senza smagliature.

In Cannon Re-Loaded Scott mette insieme una scintillante formazione di all-star composta dal trombettista Terence Blanchard, sugli scudi in più occasioni; l'irreprensibile George Duke al piano; e una ritmica capace di unire tradizione e attualità composta da Marcus Miller e Steve Gadd. Come se non bastasse, a completare una band di caratura assoluta, vanno segnalati gli interventi all'organo B3 di Larry Goldings e soprattutto la voce elegantissima di Nancy Wilson, ospite in due brani.

Oltre che sulla carta l'ensamble si dimostra efficace anche sul campo, ripercorrendo - con enorme piacere da parte di chi ascolta - le vie e gli incroci decisivi della strada artistica di Cannonbal. Ed è un bel passeggiare, dalle iniziali "Jive Samba" e "Work Song," firmate dal fratello Nat, passando per le strettoie zawinuliane di "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" e "Country Preacher" fino alle vette compositive di "Inside Straight," tra momenti di assoluta bellezza e riletture funzionali.

Se proprio volessimo muovere una critica a questo lavoro, potremmo puntare il dito contro un'eccessiva levigatura, una perfezione prossima all'azzeramento dell'imprevedibilità, ma queste sono solo considerazioni che di fronte a tanta meraviglia sono destinate a rimanere note a margine, di quelle scritte in piccolo, quasi invisibili.


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Track Listing

1. Jive Samba; 2. Work Song; 3. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; 4. Save Your Love for Me; 5. Sack O' Woe; 6. Country Preacher; 7. Inside Straight; 8. I Should Care; 9. The Masquerade Is Over; 10. Stars Fell on Alabama.

Personnel

Tom Scott
saxophone, tenor

Tom Scott: alto sax; Terence Blanchard: tromba; George Duke: piano, Rhodes e Wurlitzer; Larry Goldings: organo B3; Marcus Miller: basso; Steve Gadd: batteria; Dave Carpenter: basso (8, 10); Nancy Wilson: voce (4, 9).

Album information

Title: Cannon Re-Loaded: An All Star Celebration of Cannonball Adderley | Year Released: 2009 | Record Label: Concord Music Group


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