Released August 1959 Release date 1959 Label Riverside Records | Artist Cannonball Adderley Producer Orrin Keepnews Genre Jazz | |
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Recorded April 23, 27 & May 12, 1959 Cannonball Takes Charge
(1959) The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
(1959) Similar Cannonball Adderley albums, Jazz albums | ||
Cannonball Takes Charge is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb with Percy and Albert Heath replacing Chambers and Cobb on two selections. The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 4 stars and states: "Cannonball Adderley is in top form on this 1959 release."
Contents
Track listing
All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated- "If This Isn't Love" (E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Burton Lane) – 5:32
- "I Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 5:34
- "Serenata" (Leroy Anderson) – 4:16
- "I've Told Ev'ry Little Star" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:39
- "Barefoot Sunday Blues" – 7:03
- "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell) – 5:10
- "I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) – 6:55
- "Barefoot Sunday Blues" [alternative take] – 7:48 Bonus track on CD
- "I Remember You" [alternative take] (Mercer, Schertzinger) – 6:52 Bonus track on CD
Personnel
Songs
1If This Isn't Love5:32
2Poor Butterfly5:10
3I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry5:20
References
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