Artist:Cannonball Adderley
Song:Fiddler On The Roof
Album:Money In The Pocket
When Riverside Records went bankrupt in 1963, jazz sax legend Julian "Cannonball" Adderley signed with Capitol Records. They did commercialize his music and Adderley had a huge pop hit in 1966 with Mercy Mercy Mercy. A lot of Adderley's success can be credited to Austrian pianist arranger Joe Zawinul. He wrote Mercy Mercy Mercy. Zawinul went on to greater success on Miles Davis' ground breaking jazz fusion album Bitches Brew and as co-founder of Weather Report. The Mercy Mercy Mercy album was supposedly recorded live at "The Club" in Chicago. In fact, producer David Axelrod set up a nightclub setting at the Capitol Records studio in Los Angeles. The recordings were severely edited for release. Money In The Pocket is a 2005 restoration of this session with previously unreleased extra tracks including this great version of Fiddler On The Roof. Musicians are Nat Adderley on trumpet, Joe Zawinul on keyboards, Herbie Lewis on bass and Roy McCurdy on drums. This CD is a must for Cannonball Adderley fans. Adderley left Capitol for Fantasy Records in 1970 and died suddenly of a stroke on Aug. 8, 1975 at age 47. Here's Cannonball Adderley performing on the Jazz Scene USA TV show in 1962 with Nat Adderley, Yusuf Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones & Louis Hayes. There are clips of this show floating around on the internet but this is the full 25 minute show.
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