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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 ...
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.
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 Penguin Guide to Jazz states: " 'Work Song' is the real classic, of course, laced with a funky blues feel but marked by some unexpectedly lyrical playing." [8] In a musical analysis of Adderley's improvisational bebop style, Kyle M. Granville writes that the song is "connected to the soul-jazz style that Nat Adderley and his brother Cannonball Adderley immersed themselves into during the ...
The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "At the Lighthouse, which marked Vic Feldman's arrival in the group, is a near-classic, opening on the immortal version of 'Sack O' Woe' and steaming through a vintage Adderley set in front of a cheering and fingersnapping crowd".
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at "The Club" is a 1967 live in-studio album by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, the jazz group formed by musician Cannonball Adderley. [2] It received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance – Group or Soloist with Group in 1967, [3] and was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2021.
"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" is a jazz song written by Joe Zawinul (lyrics by Gail Fisher) in 1966 for Cannonball Adderley and which appears on his album Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at "The Club" . The song is the title track of the album and became a surprise hit in February 1967. [ 1 ] "