Cannonball Adderley - Phenix (1975)

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Title: Phenix
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Fantasy[FCD-79994-2]
Genre: Jazz, Soul Jazz, Hard Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 72:55
Total Size: 484 MB(+3%) | 173 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. High Fly (Weston) 6:04
02. Work Song (Adderley, Brown) 6:28
03. Sack O' Woe (Adderley) 5:06
04. Jive Samba (Adderley) 5:19
05. This Here (Timmons) 7:12
06. The Sidewalks of New York (Blake, Lawlor) 5:37
07. Hamba Nami (Adderley) 5:24
08. Domination (Adderley) 6:55
09. 74 Miles Away (Zawinul) 5:58
10. Country Preacher (Zawinul) 4:26
11. Stars Fell on Alabama (Parish, Perkins) 5:48
12. Walk Tall / Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Marrow, Rein, Zawinul) 7:28

personnel :

Cannonball Adderley - soprano & alto saxophones
Nat Adderley - cornet
George Duke - keyboards, synthesizer
Mike Wolff - keyboards
Walter Booker - acoustic & electric basses
Sam Jones - acoustic bass
Louis Hayes, Roy McCurdy - drums
Airto Moreira - congas, percussion

Adderley's next-to-last recording (cut just four months before he died of a stroke at age 46) was ironically a retrospective of his career. While his then-current group (with cornetist Nat Adderley, keyboardist Mike Wolff, bassist Walter Booker, and drummer Roy McCurdy) was featured on half of this two-LP set (highlighted by "Stars Fell on Alabama," "74 Miles Away," and a medley of "Walk Tall" and "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"), on the remainder of this two-fer the Adderleys welcome back several alumni (keyboardist George Duke, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Louis Hayes) for new versions of "High Fly," "Work Song," "Sack O'Woe," "Jive Samba," "This Here," and "The Sidewalks of New York." A recommended set with plenty of excellent music, it serves as a fine overview of Cannonball Adderley's career.