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Accent on Africa

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Released
  
1968

Release date
  
1968

Label
  
Parlophone Catalogue

Recorded
  
June 13 & 14 1968

Producer
  
David Axelrod

Genre
  
Jazz

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Accent on Africa (1968)
  
Country Preacher (1969)

Artists
  
Cannonball Adderley, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet

Similar
  
Cannonball Adderley albums, Jazz albums

Accent on Africa is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded in 1968 for the Capitol label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley and unidentified percussion section, vocalists, and big band.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3½ stars and states "this is one of the best and most overlooked of the Cannonball Adderley Capitols, a rumbling session that bursts with the joy of working in an unfamiliar yet vital rhythmic context".

Track listing

All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated

  1. "Ndo Lima" (Joe Zawinul) – 3:48
  2. "Hamba Nami" – 3:32
  3. "Khutsana"  – 3:58
  4. "Up and At It" (Wes Montgomery) – 3:36
  5. "Gumba" – 5:25
  6. "Marabi" – 2:50
  7. "Gun-Jah" – 4:16
  8. "Lemadima" – 3:38
  9. Recorded in San Francisco, CA on September 23 (tracks 2-4) & October 7 (tracks 1 & 5-8), 1968

Personnel

  • Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone (3, 4, 6), soprano saxophone (1, 3, 7, 8), varitone (2, 5)
  • Nat Adderley – cornet
  • H.B. Barnum – arranger, conductor
  • Unidentified brass, reeds and vocals
  • Unknown – piano, harpsichord
  • Unknown – guitar
  • Unknown – bass
  • Earl Palmer - drums
  • Unknown – percussion

    • Songs

    1Ndo Lima3:51
    2Hamba' Nami (Walk With Me)3:40
    3Khutsana (The Orphan)4:05

    References

    Accent on Africa Wikipedia
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