''Back Door Blues'' is an album by the American saxophonist/vocalist

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr.; December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was ...

with the

Cannonball Adderley Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Adderley is perhaps best remembered for the 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", whi ...

Quintet recorded in Chicago in late 1961 and New York in early 1962 and released by the

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label. The album was partially rereleased with additional recordings and alternate takes as ''Cleanhead & Cannonball'' on CD by

Landmark Records Landmark Records was an American jazz record company and label founded in 1985 by Orrin Keepnews. Landmark's releases included music by Donald Byrd, Jack DeJohnette, Jimmy Heath, Vincent Herring, Bobby Hutcherson, Mulgrew Miller, Buddy Montgome ...

in 1988 and the complete recordings issued on

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in 2013.Blue Sounds: album details
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Reception

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reviewer Thom Jurek stated: "Cleanhead sings his ass off and plays some alto with Cannonball. These dates reveal an anomaly in jazz at the time: The recordings are the place on the map where jazz and R&B meet head on, bringing the full force of their respective traditions and neither giving an inch. And it works so well ... Cannonball is excellent throughout; the R&B and blues idioms are all meat and potatoes for him, and he feels confident settling inside the groove without the need to push the boundary. Ironically, it's Vinson who compensates in that way. And the anchor in all of this is Zawinul, leading the rhythm section, condensing both musics to their most essential harmonics and tonalities, and building them out with a swinging style and cadence that are nothing short of remarkable ... Highly recommended". ''

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'' wrote that "the Adderley band of that period was very well suited to accompanying a blues singer like Vinson, and its approach is an elegant alternative to the jump-blues setting of his earlier recordings".

Track listing

All compositions by Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson except where noted # " Bright Lights, Big City" (

Jimmy Reed Mathis James Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His particular style of electric blues was popular with blues as well as non-blues audiences. Reed's songs such as "Honest I Do" (1957), " ...

) − 2:14 # "This Time" (Vinson, Ollie Jones) − 2:32 # "Hold It" − 4:15 Edited to 2:23 on original LP # "Arriving Soon" − 6:27 # "Kidney Stew" (Vinson, Leona Blackman) − 4:15 # "Back Door Blues" − 2:16 # "Person to Person" − 2:44 # "Just a Dream" (

Big Bill Broonzy Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley; June 26, 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s, when he played country music to mostly African American audiences. In the 1930s ...

) − 2:59 # "Audrey" − 4:41 # "Vinsonology" − 3:59 # "Cannonizing" − 6:28 Additional track on CD reissue # "Bernices Bounce" − 6:18 Additional track on CD reissue # "Kidney Stew" lternate Take #3− 4:13 Additional track on CD reissue # "Back Door Blues" lternate Take Unedited− 3:33 Additional track on CD reissue # "Vinsonology" lternate Take #2− 4:03 Additional track on CD reissue *Recorded on September 19, 1961 at Ter Mar Studios, Chicago (tracks 3-6 & 9-15) and February 14, 1962 at Bell Sound Studios, New York City (tracks 1, 2, 7 & 8)

Personnel

− alto saxophone, vocals *

− alto saxophone *

Nat Adderley Nathaniel Carlyle Adderley (November 25, 1931 – January 2, 2000) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was the younger brother of saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, whom he supported and played with for many years. Adderley's composition " ...

− cornet *

Joe Zawinul Josef Erich Zawinul ( '; 7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to bec ...

− piano * Sam Jones − bass *

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– drums

References

{{Authority control Riverside Records albums 1962 albums Eddie Vinson albums Cannonball Adderley albums Albums produced by Orrin Keepnews Landmark Records albums