''Country Preacher'' is a live album recorded by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1969. Recorded at an unidentified church meeting of the Chicago chapter of the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., who had a large role in the American civ ...

's Operation Breadbasket, the album spent two months in the '' Cash Box'' R&B charts in 1970. Described by discographer and Adderley biographer Chris Sheridan as "an audible sociological record",Sheridan, Chris ''Dis here: a bio-discography of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley''
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000 the introduction is by the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Hamilton, Andrew. Review at allmusic/ref> The liner notes, written by Adderley, give some background to Operation Breadbasket and the Country Preacher. The album is the first with bassist Booker as a member of the Quintet. Adderley, in his introduction to the title track, mentions fellow saxophonist Ben Branch, the director of the Operation Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir.Thomas, Lorenzo & Lynn Nielsen, Aldon ''Don't deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition''
University of Michigan Press, 2008 , 9780472068920

Track listing

Introduction by the Reverend Jesse Jackson # " Walk Tall" (Zawinul, Marrow, Rein) 5:03 # "Country Preacher" (Joe Zawinul) 4:30 # "Hummin'" (Nat Adderley) 6:32 # "Oh Babe" (Nat Adderley, Julian Adderley) 4:50 # "Afro-Spanish Omlet"
a. Umbakwen (Nat Adderley) 4:30
b. Soli Tomba (W. Booker) 3:03
c. Oiga (Joe Zawinul) 4:23
d. Marabi (Julian Adderley) 3:47 # "The Scene" (Joe Zawinul, Nat Adderley) 2:01

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 and soprano saxophones *

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 and vocals on "Oh Babe" * Joe Zawinul - keyboards *

Walter Booker Walter Booker (December 17, 1933 – November 24, 2006) was an American jazz musician. A native of Prairie View, Texas, Booker was a reliable bass player and an underrated stylist. His playing was marked by voice-like inflections, glissandos and ...

- bass * Roy McCurdy - drums

References

1970 live albums Cannonball Adderley live albums Albums produced by David Axelrod (musician) Capitol Records live albums {{1960s-jazz-album-stub