''Why Am I Treated So Bad!'' is an album by the
Cannonball Adderley Quintet, recorded at the
Capitol Studios in Hollywood in 1967.
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The song "I'm on My Way", was written by his nephew
Nat Adderley Jr.
Nathaniel Adderley Jr. (born May 23, 1955) is an American pop and rhythm and blues music arranger and pianist who spent much of his music career arranging as music director for Luther Vandross tours and contributed as co-songwriter on most of ...
, who at the time was an 11-year-old living in
Teaneck, New Jersey
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.
[Stewart, Zan]
"Born to swing: Nat Adderley Jr. returns to his roots"
''The Star-Ledger
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'', September 10, 2009. Accessed September 10, 2009.
Track listing
(CD re-issue)
# "Introduction" – 0:13
# "Mini Mama" (
Curtis Fuller
Curtis DuBois Fuller (December 15, 1932May 8, 2021) was an American jazz trombonist. He was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributed to many classic jazz recordings.
Early life
Fuller was born in Detroit on December 15, 1932. ...
) – 6:41
# "I'm on My Way" (Nat Adderley Jr.) – 7:49
# "Why Am I Treated So Bad" (
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Animals
*Roe buck or roebuck, a male roe deer
People
* Alvah Curtis Roebuck (1864–1948), American businessman, co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company
* Daniel Roebuck (born 1963), American television film actor, writer ...
) - 7:47
# "One for Newk" (
Josef Zawinul) – 5:15
# "Yvette" (Josef Zawinul) – 2:21
# "The Other Side" (
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 ...
) – 9:04
# "The Scene" (Josef Zawinul) – 2:39
# "Heads Up! Feet Down!" (
Jimmy Heath
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Biography
Heath w ...
) – 7:00
# "The Girl Next Door" (
Hugh Martin
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,
Ralph Blane
Ralph Blane (July 26, 1914 – November 13, 1995) was an American composer, lyricist, and performer.
Life and career
Blane was born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He attended Tulsa Central High School. He studied singing with ...
) – 12:07
Personnel
*
Julian "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", wh ...
– alto sax
*
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 – piano
*
Victor Gaskin
Roderick Victor Gaskin (November 23, 1934 – July 14, 2012) was an American jazz bassist.
Gaskin was born in The Bronx, New York and moved to Los Angeles in 1962. He started playing with Paul Horn and Red Mitchell and went on to become one of m ...
– bass
*
Roy McCurdy – drums
References
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1967 live albums
Capitol Records live albums
Cannonball Adderley live albums
Albums produced by Cannonball Adderley
Albums recorded at Capitol Studios