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The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra aka Experience in E: Capitol 1970 1970 Love, Sex, and the Zodiac: Fantasy: 1974 1970-09-19 1970-10-05, -06
Julian Edwin Adderley was born on September 15, 1928, in Tampa, Florida, to high school guidance counselor and cornet player Julian Carlyle Adderley and elementary school teacher Jessie Johnson. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Elementary school classmates called him "cannonball" (i.e., "cannibal") after his voracious appetite.
Nat and Cannonball Adderley at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 1961. During the 1960s, Adderley acted as cornetist, composer, and manager for the quintet. [3] While he kept the band in order, he also composed some of the group's most successful songs. His most successful song was "Work Song" (January 1960), a hard bop tune
"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" is a jazz song written by Joe Zawinul (lyrics by Gail Fisher) in 1966 for Cannonball Adderley and which appears on his album Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at "The Club". The song is the title track of the album and became a surprise hit in February 1967. [1] "
In the 1980s, the album was re-issued with a bonus track from the recording session that was listed as "Alison's Uncle" and credited to Cannonball Adderley. The track appeared as "Alison's Uncle" on compact disc releases in the U.S. and Japan in 1986, and it continued to appear under this title, or as "Bangoon (aka Alison's Uncle)", on reissues into the 21st century.
My current music collection has a lot of Blues, jazz, soul music, old school rock music, everything from Bob Dylan to Otis Redding to Led Zeppelin to Cannonball Adderley to Van Morrison to Bob Marley.
The AllMusic review by Al Campbell awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "Recorded in early 1960, Them Dirty Blues contains two classic jazz compositions." [2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3⅓ stars, noting: "Them Dirty Blues debuts Nat's 'Work Song' in the band's book, as well as Bobby Timmons's 'Dat Dere'."
Things Are Getting Better is the 11th album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his second release on the Riverside label, featuring performances with Milt Jackson, Wynton Kelly, Percy Heath and Art Blakey. [2] Recorded in October 1958, the album was released in early 1959.