Cannonball's Sharpshooters

Cannonball's Sharpshooters
Studio album by Cannonball Adderley
Released 1958
Recorded March 4, & 6, 1958
Genre Jazz
Length 52:12
Label Mercury
Cannonball Adderley chronology
Cannonball Enroute
(1957)		 Cannonball's Sharpshooters
(1958)		 Somethin' Else
(1958)
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Allmusic [1]

Cannonball's Sharpshooters is the seventh album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his second released on the Mercury label, featuring performances with Nat Adderley, Junior Mance, Sam Jones, and Jimmy Cobb.[2] The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states "Excellent bebop comes from the great altoist Cannonball Adderley and his original quintet".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated
  1. "Our Delight" (Tadd Dameron) - 4:38
  2. "Jubilation" - 5:25
  3. "What's New" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 5:02
  4. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) - 8:26
  5. "If I Love Again" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 5:27
  6. "Fuller Bop Man" (Curtis Fuller) - 3:43
  7. "Stay on It" (Dameron) - 4:38
  8. "Fuller Bop Man" [alternate take] (Curtis Fuller) - 8:59 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded at Bell Sound Studios in New York City on March 4 (tracks 1-4) and March 6 (tracks 5-8), 1958

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic Review
  2. ^ Cannonball Adderley discography accessed 14 October 2009
  3. ^ Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed 14 October 2009