''The Happy People'' is a live album by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, a band led by jazz saxophonist

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. It was recorded in 1970 in

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and released in 1972 through Capitol Records. It features contributions from the quintet: Cannonball Adderley on saxophone, George Duke on piano,

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on string bass, Roy McCurdy on drums and

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on cornet, with guest appearances from Airto Moreira, Olga James, Flora Purim, David T. Walker, Chuck Rainey, King Errisson and

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Track listing

Personnel

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet *

– alto saxophone, producer * George Duke –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, electric piano, arrangement (track 2) *

–

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...

* Roy McCurdy – drums * Nathaniel Carlyle Adderley – cornet Additional musicians * Airto Moreira – lead vocals (tracks: 1, 4),

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

* Olga James – lead vocals (track 3) * Flora Purim – vocals * David T. Walker –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

(track 3) * Chuck Rainey –

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

(track 3) *"King" Errisson Pallman Johnson – percussion *

– percussion (tracks 1, 2, 4) * David Axelrod – arrangement (tracks: 1, 3), producer * Nathaniel E. Adderley, Jr. – arrangement (track 4) Technical *John Hoernle – art direction *George Bartell – illustration *Leroy Brooks – photography

References

External links

*
The Happy People on Cannonball Adderley's website
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