Nippon Soul

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Nippon Soul
Studio album by Cannonball Adderley

Publication
(s)

1963

Label (s) Riverside Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

6 LP, 7 CD

running time

46:42

occupation

Studio (s)

live at Sankei Hall in Tokyo, Japan

chronology
Autumn Leaves
(1963) 		Nippon Soul Live!
(1964)

Nippon Soul is a 1963 Japan recorded Jazz - Live album by Cannonball Adderley .

The album

Nat and Cannonball Adderley (1961 in Amsterdam)

The album was recorded on July 9, 14 and 15, 1963 during concerts at Sankei Hall in Tokyo. The sextet, which in addition to Cannonball Adderley himself consisted of his brother at the cornet, the multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef , the bassist Sam Jones , the drummer Louis Hayes and Joe Zawinul , who was still at the beginning of his international career , is considered one of the best Adderley's -Bands.

Lateef contributed two pieces, including Brother John (for John Coltrane ), which contains an extended oboe solo by Lateef. The standards, Easy to Love by Cole Porter and Come Sunday from the Black, Brown and Beige suite by Duke Ellington were arranged by Zawinul. The CD was released with the bonus track Work Song by Nat Adderley , which was recorded the previous week with the same line-up and was originally released on the 1975 album The Japanese Concerts .

Japan was open to many Western influences, including jazz, in the early 1960s. Before Cannonball Adderley, however, only a few American jazz musicians had given concerts in Japan, such as Art Blakey and Horace Silver . The Adderley Sextet tour was a complete success. The concert halls were mostly sold out. The Sankei Hall , where the concert was recorded, has about the same capacity as Carnegie Hall . Two more albums were released from the tour, Autumn Leaves 1963 and Japanese Concerts 1975. On later tours, the Adderley Quintet appeared in Sankei Hall , albeit without Lateef and with Victor Gaskin on bass and Roy McCurdy on drums. From an appearance in 1966, the album Cannonball was released in Japan .

reception

Allmusic awarded four stars out of five for the album. Stewart Mason wrote about the album:

"... a solid live set that showcases one of Cannonball Adderley's finest groups ... Often overlooked, this is one of Adderley's finest albums,"

"... a solid live set featuring one of Cannonball Adderley's best groups ... Often overlooked, it is one of Adderley's best albums."

The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave the album three stars and wrote:

"Zawinul is still no more than a good bandsman, and Lateef's touches of exotica - such as the oboe solo on Brother John or his fury Roland Kirk-like flute improvisations - are an awkward match for the sunnier disposition of the customary material."

"Zawinul is still nothing more than a good musician and Lateef's touch of the exotic - like the oboe solo on Brother John or his boisterous, Roland Kirk-esque flute improvisations - are an awkward counterpart to the sunnier attitude of the usual material."

Track list

  1. Nippon Soul (Nihon No Soul) (Julian "Cannonball" Adderley) - 9:34
  2. Easy to Love (Cole Porter) - 3:49
  3. The Weaver (Yusef Lateef) - 10:50
  4. Tengo Tango (Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Nat Adderley) - 2:40
  5. Come Sunday (Duke Ellington) - 7:03
  6. Brother John (Lateef) - 13:03
  7. Work Song (Nat Adderley) - 9:06 bonus track on CD

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nippon Soul Liner Notes. Retrieved May 30, 2013 .
  2. ^ Nippon Soul - Cannonball Adderley. Retrieved May 30, 2013 .
  3. ^ Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 978-0-14-102327-4 , pp. 10 .

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