Primitivo/Jive Samba/Lillie/Jessica’s Birthday/Marney/Mello Bruno
Jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley made the US album chart top twenty for the first time with this spirited live recording from the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco. Featured musicians include his brother Nat Adderley on coronet and Yusef Lateef on flute and oboe. (US:11)
"The exotic, ominous one-chord vamp Primitivo makes effective use of Lateef's evocative flute and oboe touches. Another highlight is Jive Samba, a bossa nova based groove."
"Every track on this album is very good or better, and most are better. The music was recorded when Cannonball had expanded his group to a sextet by adding Yusef Lateef."
"Group made the most of their size by adopting a big band sound with horns playing figures under the soloist. Jive Samba is a classic and listening to Jessica's Birthday, you can feel the band swinging off the bandstand."
"Cannonball made many good LP's but this is absolutely the one I would start with."
"This is a jazz masterpiece. There is not a dull moment, everyone performs wonderfully."
"Out of the albums recorded by the Yusef enhanced line up of the Cannonball Adderley group, this one is probably the most popular, largely on the strength of the hit Jive Samba."
"Recorded in the lively, if noisy, Jazz Workshop of San Francisco, mecca to those of us who grew up musically in the Bay Area of the 60s. Jive Samba is the best-known cut, but Primitivo is not to be missed."
"Travel into a magic world, it brings tears into your eyes."
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