The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco

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The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
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Live album by
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Released1959
RecordedOctober 18 & 20, 1959
The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco
Genre Jazz
Length60:32excluding alt. takes
Label Riverside
RLP 12-311
Producer Orrin Keepnews
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet chronology
Cannonball Takes Charge
(1959)		The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
(1959)		 Them Dirty Blues
(1960)

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco is a 1959 album by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet.

Contents

The groundbreaking album launched "soul jazz", according to NPR, bridging "the gap between bebop and funk". [1] [2] Originally released by Riverside Records, the album has been reissued on CD several times since 1991 by Riverside and OJC. Remastered versions of the album include extended cuts of several of the songs on the original, including the retitled "(A Few Words by Cannonball...And) This Here". [3] [4]

Background

The album was recorded at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco before an appreciative standing-room only crowd. [5] The album broke new ground as a live recording taped in noisy club environments, [5] creating a formula that not only the Cannonball Quintet but other jazz ensembles would follow. [6] Producer Orrin Keepnews reflected that it "was such a phenomenal success that not only did I do a lot of such recordings afterwards, but I think that virtually all jazz producers felt that it was a good thing to do". [1] Also unusual for the time was Keepnews' decision to retain Adderley's comments to the crowd. [7]

Reception

Producer and jazz critic Orrin Keepnews described the album as "the birth of contemporary live recording" [1] and in May 1960, Time noted that the album's then 50,000 copies sold was "phenomenal for a jazz record", raising the album to the bestseller charts. [8] Music critic Scott Yanow describes the album as a "gem [...] essential for all jazz collections." [9] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3 stars, stating: "In San Francisco is a little overstretched, with four tracks nudging the 12-minute mark and some of the solos running out of steam too soon". [10]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [9]
DownBeat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]

Track listing

  1. "This Here" (Bobby Timmons) – 12:29 [12]
  2. "Spontaneous Combustion" (Cannonball Adderley) – 11:55
  3. "Hi-Fly" (Randy Weston) – 11:09
  4. "You Got It!" (Cannonball Adderley) – 5:10
  5. "Bohemia After Dark" (Oscar Pettiford) – 8:06
  7. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) – 11:43 (2000 Bonus Track; 2007 Bonus Track)
  8. "This Here [Alternate Take]"– 11:40 (2007 Bonus Track)
  9. "You Got It! [Alternate Take]" – 6:11 (2007 Bonus Track)

Personnel

Musicians

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Sidran, Ben. Jazz Profiles from NPR: Nat Adderley (1931–2000) NPR. Accessed June 15, 2021.
  2. ↑ See also Herrmann, Zachary. (April 2, 2007) "Concord releases Orrin Keepnews Collection", JazzTimes Magazine. Accessed December 13, 2007.
  3. ↑ Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (Remastered Bonus Track) at AllMusic.
  4. ↑ Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (Remastered Bonus Tracks) at AllMusic.
  5. 1 2 Rickert, David. (June 13, 2007) "The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco", All About Jazz. Accessed December 13, 2007.
  6. ↑ Chell, Samuel (June 16, 2007). "The Cannonball Adderley Quintet In San Francisco". All About Jazz. Retrieved December 13, 2007.
  7. ↑ Dryden, Ken (August 5, 2007). "Louis Hayes: Maximum Firepower and The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco". All About Jazz. Retrieved December 13, 2007.
  8. ↑ Time staff. (May 30, 1960) Cannonball. Time in partnership with CNN. Accessed December 13, 2007.
  9. 1 2 The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco at AllMusic.
  10. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. p.  9. ISBN   978-0-141-02327-4.
  11. ↑ Gitler, Ira (26 May 1960). "Cannonball Adderley: Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco". DownBeat . Vol. 27, no. 11. p. 27.
  12. ↑ Original track listing source Billboard . The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco billboard.com. Accessed December 13, 2007.
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