Phenix (album)

Phenix is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California in 1975 featuring performances by Adderley's Quintet with Nat Adderley, Michael Wolff, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy with guest percussionist Airto Moreira and sessions featuring past Quintet members George Duke, Sam Jones, and Louis Hayes.^[2] The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states "Adderley's next-to-last recording (cut just four months before he died of a stroke at age 46) was ironically a retrospective... A recommended set with plenty of excellent music, it serves as a fine overview of Cannonball Adderley's career".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated

1. "Hi-Fly" (Randy Weston) - 6:04
2. "Work Song" (Nat Adderley) - 6:28
3. "Sack O' Woe" - 5:06
4. "Jive Samba" (Nat Adderley) - 5:19
5. "This Here" (Bobby Timmons) - 7:12
6. "The Sidewalks of New York" (James W. Blake, Charles B. Lawlor) - 5:37
7. "Hamba Nami" - 5:24
8. "Domination" - 6:55
9. "74 Miles Away" (Joe Zawinul) - 5:58
10. "Country Preacher" (Zawinul) - 4:26
11. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) - 5:48
12. "Walk Tall/Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Queen Esther Marrow, Jim Rein, Zawinul/Zawinul) - 7:28

• Recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA on February, March & April, 1975

Personnel

• Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone
• Nat Adderley - cornet
• George Duke - keyboards, synthesizers (tracks 1-6)
• Michael Wolff - keyboards (tracks 7-12)
• Sam Jones - acoustic bass (tracks 1-6)
• Walter Booker - acoustic and electric bass (tracks 7-10 & 12)
• Louis Hayes - drums (tracks 1-6)
• Roy McCurdy - drums (tracks 7-10 & 12)
• Airto Moreira - percussion, congas

References