Black Messiah was the first or second Cannonball Adderley LP that I ever bought. It’s a double album recorded live at the Troubadour Club in L.A. featuring Cannonball…
Soul Zodiac is not to be confused with Adderley’s later Love, Sex And The Zodiac LP. Out of the two, Soul Zodiac is the jazzier, while Love, Sex And The Zodiac…
Happy People came out the same year as Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra, but couldn’t have been more different in styles. While the latter was a mix…
Country Preacher was a live album recorded in Chicago to support Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket, a program run by Martin Luther King’s Southern…
Cannonball released several live albums and this is another one. As usual David Axelrod did production and Lou Rawls and Nancy Wilson each sing a song. The majority…
Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra features three songs, each penned by different authors. Joe Zawinul wrote Experience In E, Tensity is by David Axelrod…
One of the few 1970s records of Adderley’s that Axelrod did not produce, Phenix is a double LP featuring 13 studio recorded tracks. The selections are a mix…
The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free was another live Cannonball Adderley LP, this time a double LP featuring 19 songs. The album begins with one of Adderley’s…
Inside Straight was recorded at the famed Fantasy Studio in Berkeley but with a live audience in attendance. The title track is a pure jam with its forceful beat.…
Music, You All was one of Adderley’s later recordings. He was still working with Capitol, David Axelrod, and his usual group of supporting musicians (brother Nat,…
Soul Of The Bible is one of the hardest to find titles by Cannonball Adderley. I actually picked this up over the summer and then completely forgot about it. I was…
Not to be confused with Adderley’s Soul Zodiac LP on Capitol released two years beforehand, this record is the funkier of the two. The concept is the same, Cannonball…
