Cannonball Enroute

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Released 1957 Release date 1957 Genre Jazz		Artist Cannonball Adderley Label Mercury Records

Recorded February 7, 8, 11, & March 6, 1957 Cannonball Enroute(1957) Cannonball's Sharpshooters(1958) Similar Cannonball Adderley albums, Jazz albums

Cannonball Enroute is the sixth album by the jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his first released on the Mercury label, featuring performances with Nat Adderley, Junior Mance, Sam Jones, and Jimmy Cobb.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars and states "Cannonball Adderley's Mercury albums (most of which, like this LP, are long out-of-print) find the youthful altoist trying to unsuccessfully keep his quintet with brother Nat together. Despite the powerful bop-oriented music they consistently recorded, the band would break up in a year, only to regroup with great success in 1959."

Track listing

All compositions by Nat Adderley except as indicated

"A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:49
"Hoppin' John" - 4:37
"18th Century Ballroom" (Nat Adderley, Ray Bryant) - 3:55
"That Funky Train" - 5:51
"Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) - 3:56
"I'll Remember April" (Gene DePaul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 5:33
"Porky" (Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley) - 3:58
"The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 4:27

Recorded at Capitol Studios in New York City on February 7 (tracks 1-3 & 5), February 8 (tracks 7 & 8), February 11 (track 4), and March 6 (track 6), 1957