The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3½ stars and states: "Cannonball was a populist at heart, and his generosity of spirit shines through this often deliciously diverse album, which ranges wildly from flat-out soul to Brazilian music to a cautious toedip into the avant-garde.... This is a fascinating contemporary snapshot of the Quintet, whose later recordings are too casually dismissed these days."

Track listing

All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated

1. "Soul Virgo" (Walter Booker) - 1:46
2. "Rumplestiltskin" (Joe Zawinul) - 5:11
3. "Inquisition" (Nat Adderley) - 2:25
4. "Devastatement" (Nat Adderley) - 2:55
5. "Pra Dizer Adeus" (Edú Lobo, Torquato Neto) - 2:49
6. "The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free" (Nat Adderley) - 4:40
7. "Some Time Ago" (Sergio Mihanovich) - 4:12
8. "Exquisition" (Nat Adderley) - 4:15
9. "Painted Desert" (Joe Zawinul) - 5:55
10. "Directions" (Zawinul) - 1:35
11. "Down in Black Bottom" (Nat Adderley) - 5:17
12. "1-2-3-Go-O-O-O!" (The Cannonball Adderley Quintet) - 4:41
13. "Lonesome Stranger" (Nat Adderley) - 2:01
14. "Get Up Off Your Knees" - 4:59
15. "Wild-Cat Pee" - 3:22
16. "Alto Sex" - 2:10
17. "Bridges" (Milton Nascimento) - 4:21
18. "Out and In" - 5:48
19. "Together" (Nat Adderley, Jr.) - 6:31
20. "The Scene" (Nat Adderley, Zawinul) - 0:36

Personnel