The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco

Infobox Album
Name = The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
Type = live
Artist = The Cannonball Adderley Quintet


Released = 1959
Recorded = Oct 18 – Oct 20, 1959
Genre = Jazz
Length = 59:58
Label = Riverside
Producer = Orrin Keepnews
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wc07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gzfixqegldje link]
Last album = ""
(1959)
This album = "The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco"
(1959)
Next album = "Them Dirty Blues"
(1960)

"The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco" is a 1959 album by jazz band The Cannonball Adderley Quintet. The groundbreaking album launched "soul jazz", according to NPR bridging "the gap between bebop and funk".Sidran, Ben. [http://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/adderley_n.html Jazz Profiles from NPR: Nat Adderley (1931-2000)] NPR. Accessed December 13 2007.] ["See also" Herrmann, Zachary. (April 2 2007) [http://jazztimes.com/columns_and_features/news/detail.cfm?article=11067 Concord releases Orrin Keepnews Collection] "JazzTimes Magazine". Accessed December 13 2007.] Producer and jazz critic Orrin Keepnews described the album as "the birth of contemporary live recording". In May 1960, "Time" noted that the album's then 50,000 copies sold was "phenomenal for a jazz record", raising the album to the bestseller charts. [Time staff. (May 30 1960) [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939674,00.html Cannonball] . Time in partnership with CNN. Accessed December 13 2007.] American jazz commenter Scott Yanow describes the album as a "gem [...] essential for all jazz collections." [allmusicguide|id=10:gzfixqegldje~T1|label=The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco]

Originally released by Riverside Records, the album has been reissued on CD several times since 1991 by Riverside and OJC. Several remastered editions released by Riverside and JVC Victor have included various bonus tracks.

Background

The album was recorded at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco before an appreciative standing room only crowd.Rickert, David. (June 13 2007) [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=25874 The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco] . All About Jazz. Accessed December 13 2007.] The album broke new ground as a live recording taped in noisy club environments, creating a formula which not only the Cannonball Quintet but other jazz ensembles would follow. [cite web|last=Chell|first=Samuel|date=2007-06-16|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26033|title=The Cannonball Adderley Quintet In San Francisco|publisher=All About Jazz|accessdate=2007-12-13] Producer Keepnews reflected that it "was such a phenomenal success that not only did I do a lot of such recordings afterwards, but I think that virtually all jazz producers felt that it was a good thing to do". Also unusual for the time was Keepnews' decision to retain Adderley's comments to the crowd. [cite web|last=Dryden|first=Ken|date=2007-08-05|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26303|title=Louis Hayes: Maximum Firepower and The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco|publisher=All About Jazz|accessdate=2007-12-13]

Track listing

#"This Here" (Bobby Timmons) – 12:22 [Original track listing source Billboard. [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/discography/index.jsp?pid=6141&aid=102827 The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco] billboard.com. Accessed December 13 2007.]
#"Spontaneous Combustion" (Cannonball Adderley) – 11:49
#"Hi-Fly" (Randy Weston) – 11:03
#"You Got It!" (Adderley) – 5:05
#"Bohemia After Dark" (Oscar Pettiford) – 8:01

Bonus tracks

Remastered versions of the album include extended cuts of several of the songs on the original, including the retitled "(A Few Words by Cannonball...And) This Here". [allmusicguide|id=10:jnfixq8kldhe|label=Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (Remastered Bonus Track)] allmusicguide|id=10:3zfpxzq5ldke|label=Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (Remastered Bonus Tracks)]

Remastered versions also include some of the following:
#

"Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonius Monk) – 11:38 (2000 "Bonus Track"; 2007 "Bonus Tracks")
#"This Here (alternate take)" (Timmons) – 11:37 (2007 "Bonus Tracks")
#"You Got It! (alternate take)" (Adderley) – 6:11 (2007 "Bonus Tracks")

Personnel

*Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Performer
*Cannonball Adderley – Alto saxophone, performer
*Nat Adderley – cornet
*Paul Bacon – design
*Ken Braren – design
*Kirk Felton – digital remastering
*Ralph J. Gleason – liner notes
*Reice Hamel – engineer
*Louis Hayes – drums
*Sam Jones – bass
*Orrin Keepnews – producer
*Harris Lewine – design
*Bobby Timmons – piano

References