VINTAGE CANNONBALL ADDERLEY JUMP FOR JOY BILL EVANS PIANO VINYL RECORD ALBUM LP
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Description
VINTAGE
CANNONBALL ADDERLEY
JUMP FOR JOY
1958 VINYL RECORD ALBUM LP
MERCURY EMARCY JAZZ RECORDS # SR 80017 STEREO
LINER NOTES BY LEONARD FEATHER
Something of a companion album to the earlier Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings, Jump For Joy sounds like it could be outtakes from the same sessions in terms of its orchestral-quality arrangements, but this is very much its own album. Jump For Joy is Adderley's reinterpretation, circa 1958, of a Duke Ellington stage musical from 1941. A minor artifact in the Duke's long career, Jump For Joy is nonetheless a marvel, a response to Porgy and Bess that Ellington thought was a more accurate portrayal of African-American life. Adderley and arranger Bill Russo update the tunes into the then-current post-bop jazz vernacular but otherwise leave them alone for the simple reason that they don't need any embellishment. Hearing Adderley's often thrilling, always well-constructed alto sax improvisations over tunes like the standard "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" is reason enough for the album to exist, and although Russo's orchestral flourishes occasionally threaten to overwhelm the soloist (especially on the closing "The Tune of the Hickory Stick"), they're always at the very least charming examples of '50s jazz-pop arrangements.
TRACKS
Two Left Feet Just Squeeze Me I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good Nothin' Jump For Joy Bli-Blip Chocolate Shake If Life Were All Peaches and Cream Brown-Skin Gal (In the Calico Gown) The Tune of the Hickory Stick
Recorded in New York City on August 20 (tracks 3-5 &9) & August 21 (tracks 1-2, 6-8 & 10), 1958
PERSONNEL
Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone Emmett Berry - trumpet Leo Kruczek, Gene Orloff - violin Dave Schwartz - viola George Ricci - cello Bill Evans - piano Barry Galbraith - guitar Milt Hinton - bass Jimmy Cobb - drums Richard Hayman, Bill Russo - arranger
HIGHLIGHTS
Cannonball Adderley's surging solos on Two Left Feet and If Life Were All Peaches and Cream...The almost eerie blend of alto and strings on I Got It Bad...The manner in which Emmett Berry's muted trumpet is used as a lead voice with the strings.
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