Nat Adderley - For Duke & Cannon (Sextet Live at Sweet Basil) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Ultimate series presents Best of collections with a difference - today's top jazz artists select and share their thoughts on their favorite performances by Verve jazz giants. Before he died at the age of 46, Julian InchCannonballInch Adderley created a tremendous legacy of work, the influence of which is still heard today. In the liners here, his longtime pianist, Joe Zawinul, reflects on Cannonball's talent. Adderley is featured here with Nat Adderley, John Coltrane and Wynton Kelly among others. Album Tracks 1. Jubilation 2. What's New? 3. Hoppin' John 4. Sam's Tune 5. I'll Never Stop Loving You 6. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 7. I'm Glad There Is You 8. Casa de Marcel 9. I've Never Been in Love Before 10. Little Girl Blue 11. Broadway at Basin Street 12. Cannon Bilt 13. Limehouse Blues 14. Wabash 15. Grand Central 16. The Sleeper

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Live In Montreal May 1975 / One of the Cannonball Adderley Quintet's final performances recorded in Montreal on May 3, 1975 three months before his untimely passing. The great Julian InchCannonballInch Adderley rose to prominence in the hard-bop era of the 1950's and 60's. After a successful stint with Miles Davis's sextet, including being featured on the seminal Davis records 'Milestones' and 'Kind of Blue', Adderley formed his own quintet with brother Nat on trumpet and cornet, and soon became the driving force behind the soul-jazz movement of the 1960's and 70's. No one would have guessed that the 46-year-old DownBeat Jazz Hall of Famer was in the last few months of his life when he stepped on stage at Montreal's In Concert Club on May 3, 1975. And nothing about the performance suggests that the hard bop sax legend was anything but at the top of his game. The 6-track set includes the Grammy Hall of Fame inductee hit tune InchMercy Mercy Mercy, Inch with Adderley's brother Nat on trumpet. The lineup for the quintet here is Cannonball Adderley (alto and soprano sax); Nat Adderley (trumpet); Michael Wolff (piano); Roy McCurdy (drums, percussion) and Walter Booker (bass). Originally released in 1977 on Dobre Records this LP has been unavailable on vinyl for over 40 years and makes it's return pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Features liner notes by music historian Cary Ginell who wrote the book InchWalk Tall The Music and Life of Cannonball AdderleyInch. Notes include interviews with quintet members Michael Wolff and Roy McCurdy. Album Tracks 1. Five of a Kind (Live in Montreal May 3, 1975) 2. First Trip (Live in Montreal May 3, 1975) 3. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Live in Montreal May 3, 1975) 4. The Scene (Live in Montreal May 3, 1975) 5. Cannonball Intro to Waban (Live in Montreal May 3, 1975) 6. Waban (Live in Montreal May 3, 1

The first attempt went awry. When Nat and his older brother Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley tried to start a quintet in the mid-fifties, hardly anyone was interested in the newcomers from Florida. And that, in retrospect, was good. Because the trumpeter Nat landed in this way in the bands of Jay Jay Johnson and George Shearing, and there refined, under expert guidance, his art of elegant blues-bopping ensemble playing. The alto saxophonist Cannonball in turn became Miles Davis' counterpart to tenor saxophonist John Coltrane for a good four years, a time he later described as the most artistically important of his life. When the brothers came together again in 1959, they had both matured and were ready to lead one of the most successful jazz bands of the 1960s. Unlike experimental colleagues who tested the limits of music, but more and more lost their audience, the Cannonball Adderley Quintet managed to reach a large audience with hits like InchThis HereInch, InchWork SongInch, InchJive SambaInch and above all InchMercy, Mercy, MercyInch. No wonder, then, that a wave of applause greeted the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in the Stuttgart Liederhalle in 1969. Completed by bassist Victor Gaskin and drummer Roy McCurdy, they had brought with them just the right repertoire. Album Tracks 1. Rumpelstiltskin 2. Sweet Emma 3. Somewhere 4. Oh Babe 5. Walk Tall 6. Work Song