Reception
The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4 stars noting "This was the recording debut of the Adderley Sextet, with Cannonball waxing eloquently and swingingly on alto, brother Nat charging ahead on cornet, and the versatile Yusef Lateef (who had joined the band only three weeks earlier) adding a bit of an edge on tenor, flute, and unusually for a jazz wind player, oboe on the odd, dirge-like "Syn-Anthesia." There is plenty of talk from Cannonball as well... This group would be Zawinul's springboard to prominence in the jazz world — and already his compulsively funky mastery of bop and the blues has fused tightly with the Sam Jones/Louis Hayes rhythm section."[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 2½ stars stating "'Bringing in Joe Zawinul and Yusef Lateef energised the band anew".[3] When reissued in 2008 All About Jazz called the album "perhaps the single most indispensable recording by the Adderley Brothers".[4]
Track listing
- Introduction by Cannonball – 1:54
- "Gemini" (Jimmy Heath) – 11:46
- "Planet Earth" (Yusef Lateef) – 7:59
- "Dizzy's Business" (Ernie Wilkins) – 6:59
- "Syn-Anthesia" (Lateef) – 7:03
- "Scotch and Water" (Joe Zawinul) – 5:56
- "Cannon's Theme" (Sam Jones) – 3:17
- Recorded at the Village Vanguard in New York City, NY on January 12 & 14, 1962
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- The Complete RCA Victor Recordings of Dizzy Gillespie (1940s)
- Byrd Jazz (Donald Byrd, 1955)
- Autumn Leaves (Cannonball Adderley, 1963)
- Nippon Soul (Cannonball Adderley, 1963)
- That's Right! (Nat Adderley, 1960)
- My Kinda Swing (Ernestine Anderson, 1960)
- 1st Bassman (Paul Chambers, 1960)
- Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960)
- Images of Curtis Fuller (1960)
- Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef (1960)
- Pre-Bird/Mingus Revisited (Charles Mingus, 1960)
- Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960)
- Color Changes (Clark Terry, 1960)
- Soulnik (Doug Watkins, 1960)
- Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
- Grantstand (Grant Green, 1961)
- The African Beat (Art Blakey and The Afro-Drum Ensemble, 1962)
- The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1962)
- Cannonball in Europe! (Cannonball Adderley, 1962)
- Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962)
- Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (A. K. Salim, 1964)
- Invitation to Openness (Les McCann, 1971)
- Homeless Brother (Don McLean, 1974)
- Double Time (Leon Redbone, 1977)
- Something You Got (Art Farmer, 1977)
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