Phenix (album)

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Phenix
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Studio album by
Cannonball Adderley
Released1975
RecordedFebruary–April, 1975
Studio Fantasy (Berkeley)
Genre Jazz
Length71:45
Label Fantasy
Producer Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Nat Adderley, and Orrin Keepnews
Cannonball Adderley chronology
Pyramid
(1974)		Phenix
(1975)		 Lovers
(1975)

Phenix is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded in 1975 at the Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California, featuring performances by Adderley's Quintet with Nat Adderley, keyboardist Michael Wolff, bassist Walter Booker and drummer Roy McCurdy with guest percussionist Airto Moreira and past Quintet members keyboardist George Duke, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Louis Hayes guesting on select tracks. The program essentially consists of energetic new arrangements of the Quintet's best known pieces from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, including Nat Adderley's “Work Song”. [1]

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states: "Adderley's next-to-last recording (cut just four months before he died of a stroke at age 46) was ironically a retrospective.... A recommended set with plenty of excellent music, it serves as a fine overview of Cannonball Adderley's career." [2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated

  1. "Hi-Fly" (Randy Weston) - 6:04
  2. "Work Song" (Nat Adderley) - 6:28
  3. "Sack O' Woe" - 5:06
  4. "Jive Samba" (Nat Adderley) - 5:19
  5. "This Here" (Bobby Timmons) - 7:12
  6. "The Sidewalks of New York" (James W. Blake, Charles B. Lawlor) - 5:37
  7. "Hamba Nami" - 5:24
  8. "Domination" - 6:55
  9. "74 Miles Away" (Joe Zawinul) - 5:58
  10. "Country Preacher" (Zawinul) - 4:26
  11. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) - 5:48
  12. "Walk Tall/Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Queen Esther Marrow, Jim Rein, Zawinul/Zawinul) - 7:28

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Cannonball Adderley discography, accessed November 4, 2009.
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic review, accessed November 4, 2009.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 11. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  5. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
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