Cannonball Adderley - Cannonball in Europe
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Artist: Cannonball AdderleyEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- P. Bouk
- A Few Words from Cannonball
- Gemini
- Work Song
- More Words from Cannonball
- Trouble in Mind
- Dizzy's Business
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Free Music Review: Among the finest Cannonball I've heard
Hit: 5 Stars
There are so many Cannonball quintet/sextet albums out there that each one must have at least a few advocates giving it #1 status. While I'm not quite sure I would call this specific album Cannonball's best, it has a pretty strong case. Overall, I like it better than the more popular Mercy Mercy Mercy or Quintet in San Francisco.
While Cannonball's earlier albums were great fun, there was always the sense that his music didn't quite have the depth of that recorded by his former associated, Miles and Coltrane. The addition of Yusef Lateef to the group changed that. Not only was Lateef a superb soloist and composer, but under his influence Cannonball's playing began to grow into new areas. Furthermore, Joe Zawinul's appearance at the piano gave the band a stability for the first time in 2 years; at this point, though, Joe was just another great bebop pianist, not the musical visionary he would become.
This set kicks off with Lateef's modal "P. Bouk". In this intense performance, both Cannonball and Yusef's solos show the influence of jazz's early 60s avant-garde. Superb. Jimmy Heath's "Gemini" also evokes Coltrane at times.
"Work Song" was a staple of Cannonball concerts during this period - there are many different versions, and it's tough to pick a favorite, though most of them easily exceed the somewhat tepid studio debut on Them Dirty Blues. This is a really good version, though.
"Trouble in Mind" - the idea of a really down-home, gospel-infused blues featuring an oboe solo sounds crazy, but it really works.
Out of the 3 albums I've heard by this sextet - Jazz Workshop Revisited and Nippon Soul are the other two - this one is definitely the best. It may not be funky enough for fans of Cannonball's "populist" side, but it is nevertheless first-class no-holds-barred live jazz.
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Cannonball In Europe! was recorded live on August 5, 1962 at the International Jazz Festival in Comblain-La-Tour, a small town in Belgium. The recent addition of legendary reedsman Yusef Lateef pushed Adderley?s combo to a powerful sextet. With three horns blazing (Lateef, brother Nat Adderley on trumpet and Cannonball on alto sax), the band charged through a stunning concert in front of the largest audience it had ever played. The five song, 50 minute set blasts off with Lateef?s complex "P.Bouk" and never lets up. Favorites "Gemini" and "Work Song" are played with fire and passion. And Lateef?s soulful, moving oboe on the blues standard "Trouble in Mind" is stellar. But, it?s the frisky call and response between the reeds and horn, underpinned by Sam Jones? sturdy bass, Louis Hayes? energized drums and an understated Joe Zawinul on piano, that creates the fireworks that blasts this gig into the stratosphere. The reissue doesn?t unearth any extra tracks, but the sound has been improved and newly penned liner notes describe the historical background to this superb show. --Hal HorowitzJazz Music CDs
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