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Later in 1975, he was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame. [6] [19] Joe Zawinul's composition "Cannon Ball" on Weather Report's Black Market album is a tribute to his former leader. [6] Pepper Adams and George Mraz dedicated the composition "Julian" on the 1975 Pepper Adams album of the same name days after Cannonball's death. [20]
Cannonball Takes Charge: Riverside 1959 1959-10-18, -20 The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco: Riverside 1959 Live 1960-02-01 1960-03-29 Them Dirty Blues: Riverside 1960 1960-05-21 1960-06-05 Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners – with Wes Montgomery: Riverside 1960 1960-10-16 The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse ...
1960s in jazz: Music: 1960 in music: ... 16 – The Cannonball Adderley Quintet records At the Lighthouse at the ... This list of songs or music-related items is ...
The AllMusic review by Al Campbell awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "Recorded in early 1960, Them Dirty Blues contains two classic jazz compositions." [2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3⅓ stars, noting: "Them Dirty Blues debuts Nat's 'Work Song' in the band's book, as well as Bobby Timmons's 'Dat Dere'."
Nat and Cannonball Adderley at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 1961. During the 1960s, Adderley acted as cornetist, composer, and manager for the quintet. [3] While he kept the band in order, he also composed some of the group's most successful songs. His most successful song was "Work Song" (January 1960), a hard bop tune.
The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars stating "The Poll Winners session was a typical all-star meeting of the day, and if it seemed artificial at the time, how good it is to be able to hear, nearly 50 years on, Adderley, Montgomery and Brown in the same band. If there's nothing which could be called surprising, the opportunity ...
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.
The song was first recorded by Bobby Timmons in his debut album This Here Is Bobby Timmons (January 1960), and shortly thereafter by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet on the album Them Dirty Blues (February 1960) and by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers on the album The Big Beat (March 1960), with Timmons as pianist on both recordings.