PRE-ORDER: This item will be shipped with the aim to deliver on release day.
Description
The complete LP + bonus track - limited edition 180g audiophile pressing. The Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Quintet featured on Sophisticated Swing was one of the finest bands of the altoist's career. Recorded for EmArcy Records, a sub-label of Mercury Records, the quintet included his brother Nat Adderley on cornet, Junior Mance on piano, Sam Jones on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Despite their brilliance, the band would only record three LPs together, the other two being Cannonball Enroute and Cannonball's Sharpshooters.
Cannonball Adderley and his brother shared lifelong musical empathy, as he explained during a 1972 interview: "Nat and I played together for many years, and we developed lots of things, based on other people's material, and some ideas of our own. We were basically just simple players. We had never been exposed to the blood and guts, dog-eat-dog syndrome. We were just Florida guys. So, we played a lot of blues, a lot of funk, a lot of gospel-sounding stuff, and cute things based on Bird and Dizzy, and Bird and Miles."
Includes the bonus track "A Foggy Day" from the same sessions but not included on the original LP.
Tracklisting
Cannonball Adderley
Chet Baker
Charles Mingus
Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley
Miles Davis
Dorothy Ashby
Dorothy Ashby
Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley
