In San Francisco by Cannonball Adderley Quintet

26 Oct

Written by Mark Keresman
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Yeah, yeah, yeah - like a good meal, one consumed at leisure with friends and w/ out guilt, this reissued Cannonball Adderley classic album hits the spot. Of all the "children" of Charlie Parker that came of age in the 1950s, Adderley was The One who was perhaps the most blues-drenched and the most gregariously accessible (yet without compromise). He was what he was, a serious saxophonist with no serious artistic pretenses -- he played like he was giving jazz and the world a great big bear-hug. This set, recorded in The City By The Bay (@ the legendary Jazz Workshop) in 1959 is a soul-jazz classic, rollicking hard bop with stomping gospel- and jump-blues-inspired grooves and greasy, sizzling, funky-but-clean, strutting-w/-some-BBQ soloing. If you seek jazz with plenty of jaunty joie de vive and no axe to grind (or dark inner psychic depths to plumb), straight-up jazz that you could play at a party, In San Francisco is unreservedly for you. [This 20 bit K2 super-cosmo-dynamic remastered version is limited to 10,000 copies, so act fast, collectors!]

Additional Info

Artist / Group Name: Cannonball Adderley Quintet
CD Title: In San Francisco
Genre: BeBop / Hard Bop
Year Released: 2000
Reissue Original Release: 1959
Record Label: Riverside / Fantasy
Musicians: C.A.: alto sax; brother Nat: cornet; Sam Jones: bass; Louis Hayes: drums; Bobby Timmons: piano.
Label Website: http://www.fantasyjazz.com
Rating: Five Stars