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Work Song (Nat Adderley album)

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Released
  
1960

Artist
  
Nat Adderley

Label
  
Riverside Records

Genres
  
Jazz, Hard bop

Work Song (1960)
  
Thats Right! (1960)

Release date
  
1960

Recorded
  
January 25 & 27, 1960

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Nat adderley work song


Work Song is an album by jazz cornetist Nat Adderley, recorded in January 1960 and released on the Riverside label. It features Adderley with Bobby Timmons, Wes Montgomery, Sam Jones, Percy Heath, Keter Betts and Louis Hayes in various combinations from a trio to a sextet, with the unusual sound of pizzicato cello to the fore on some tracks.

Contents

The title tune was given lyrics and covered the following year by Oscar Brown Jr. on his album Sin And Soul...and then some and has become a standard in both vocal and instrumental forms. It has also been covered in French by Claude Nougaro as "Sing Sing song".

Reception

The album is recognised as one of Adderley's finest. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars, calling it a "near-classic" and stating: "Nat Adderley is heard throughout in peak form, playing quite lyrically. Highly recommended". The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "Work Song is the real classic, of course, laced with a funky blues feel but marked by some unexpectedly lyrical playing."

Track listing

All compositions by Nat Adderley except where noted.

  1. "Work Song" – 4:15
  2. "Pretty Memory" (Bobby Timmons) – 3:54
  3. "I've Got a Crush on You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:55
  4. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 5:01
  5. "Fallout" – 4:54
  6. "Sack of Woe" – 4:28
  7. "My Heart Stood Still" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 6:25
  8. "Violets for Your Furs" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 3:50
  9. "Scrambled Eggs" (Sam Jones) – 3:20
  • Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on January 25, 1960 (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 7) and January 27, 1960 (tracks 1, 3, 6, 8 & 9)

    • "I've Got a Crush on You" seems incomplete : no theme played in intro until the end, just chords to support improvisations, may be an accident in mastertape

    Personnel

  • Nat Adderley – cornet
  • Wes Montgomery – guitar
  • Bobby Timmons – piano (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6 & 9)
  • Sam Jones – bass, cello
  • Keter Betts – bass, cello
  • Percy Heath – bass
  • Louis Hayes – drums

    • Songs

    1Work Song4:14
    2Pretty Memory3:52
    3I've Got a Crush on You2:55

    References

    Work Song (Nat Adderley album) Wikipedia
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