Cannonball Adderley - The Soul Zodiac

Artist:

Adderley, Nat

UPC:

5099920851521

See Also:

Booker, Walter Kelly, Wynton Jones, Sam Adderley, Cannonball Blakey, Art Lateef, Yusef

Description:

Personnel: Nat Adderley (trumpet, cornet).
Audio Remasterer: Ian Jones .
Liner Note Author: Dean Rudland.
Photographer: Richard Allen Rankin.
A few seconds of spacy echo loops and you know where this album is coming from -- the early jazz/rock era, the Age of Aquarius and all that. Yet this crazy amalgam of jazz, rock, electronics, and spoken astrological advice by the popular Los Angeles DJ Rick Holmes actually works, for the music behind the soulfully intoned words is very inventive and Holmes plays effectively off its rhythms. Basically this is the Cannonball Adderley group (Nat, cornet; George Duke, electric piano; Walter Booker, bass; Roy McCurdy, drums), with the young eloquent Ernie Watts sitting in for Cannonball (who appears only on "Libra" and "Aries") on tenor and flute, and Mike Deasy contributing wild psychedelic guitar at times. Indeed Nat seems like just the nominal leader of the session -- Cannonball actually gets top billing as co-producer -- though he plays spiritedly at all times. The music is very eclectic, ranging from mainstream jazz to free-form freak-outs and even hilarious heavy metal rock on the stomping 14-minute "Taurus." Actually these were expansions of the directions the Adderley group was exploring at the time, and one wonders how they determined the idiom for each sign. Whether or not you accept astrology, this double set is a lot of fun. ~ Richard S. Ginell

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Introduction
2. Aries
3. Libra
4. Capricorn
5. Aquarius
6. Pisces
7. Sagittarius
8. Gemini
9. Leo
10. Virgo
11. Scorpio
12. Cancer
13. Taurus

Album Information

Release Date:

05/26/2008

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Jazz Instrument

Subgenre:

Soul Jazz

Label:

EMI

Producer:

David Axelrod; Cannonball Adderley

Catalog Number:

2085152

Original Release Year:

1972

# of Discs:

1

Runtime:

66 : 55

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