Cannonball Takes Charge

Cannonball Takes Charge is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb with Percy and Albert Heath replacing Chambers and Cobb on two selections.[2]

Cannonball Takes Charge
Studio album by
Cannonball Adderley
ReleasedAugust 1959[1]
RecordedApril 23, 27 & May 12, 1959
GenreJazz
LabelRiverside
ProducerOrrin Keepnews
Cannonball Adderley chronology
Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago
(1959)		 Cannonball Takes Charge
(1959)		 The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
(1959)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
Allmusic[4]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz said "Cannonball Takes Charge is perhaps only ordinary".[3] The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 4 stars and states: "Cannonball Adderley is in top form on this 1959 release."[4]

Track listing
All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated
  1. "If This Isn't Love" (Burton Lane, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 5:32
  2. "I Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 5:34
  3. "Serenata" (Leroy Anderson) – 4:16
  4. "I've Told Ev'ry Little Star" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:39
  5. "Barefoot Sunday Blues" – 7:03
  6. "Poor Butterfly" (Raymond Hubbell, John Golden) – 5:10
  7. "I Remember You" (Victor Schertzinger, Johnny Mercer) – 6:55
  8. "Barefoot Sunday Blues" [alternative take] – 7:48 Bonus track on CD
  9. "I Remember You" [alternative take] (Schertzinger, Mercer) – 6:52 Bonus track on CD
  • Recorded at Reeves Sound Studio in New York City on April 23 (track 4), April 27 (tracks 1-3) and May 12 (tracks 5-9), 1959

Personnel

References
  1. Billboard Aug 31, 1959
  2. Cannonball Adderley discography accessed 19 October 2009
  3. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (1994). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (2nd ed.). London: Penguin. p. 10. ISBN 0-14-017949-6.
  4. Dryden, K. Allmusic Review, accessed October 19, 2009.
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