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] The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 4 stars and states "Cannonball Adderley is in top form on this 1959 release".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated

1. "If This Isn't Love" (E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Burton Lane) - 5:32
2. "I Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 5:34
3. "Serenata" (Leroy Anderson) - 4:16
4. "I've Told Ev'ry Little Star" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 3:39
5. "Barefoot Sunday Blues" - 7:03
6. "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell) - 5:10
7. "I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) - 6:55
8. "Barefoot Sunday Blues" [alternate take] - 7:48 Bonus track on CD
9. "I Remember You" [alternate take] (Mercer, Schertzinger) - 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

• Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone
• Wynton Kelly - piano
• Paul Chambers - bass (tracks 1-4)
• Jimmy Cobb - drums (tracks 1-4)
• Percy Heath - bass (tracks 5-9)
• Albert Heath - drums (tracks 5-9)

References