''The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free'' is an album by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet recorded, in part, at the 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival. A portion of the performance is memorialized in the 1971 Clint Eastwood movie ''

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''. Additional "live in-studio" tracks were recorded the following month at the Capitol Records Tower, in Hollywood, to stretch the Monterey material into a double album. The album features Adderley with brother

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, Joe Zawinul,

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and Roy McCurdy and guest appearances by Bob West and Cannon's 15-year-old nephew

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who wrote and performed the gospel-influenced protest title song.Cannonball Adderley discography
Retrieved October 28, 2009.

Reception

The

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review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3½ stars and states: "Cannonball was a populist at heart, and his generosity of spirit shines through this often deliciously diverse album, which ranges wildly from flat-out soul to Brazilian music to a cautious toedip into the avant-garde.... This is a fascinating contemporary snapshot of the Quintet, whose later recordings are too casually dismissed these days."Ginell, R. S.

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Retrieved October 28, 2009.

Track listing

''All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated'' # "Soul Virgo" ( George Duke,

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, Rick Holmes) - 1:46 # "Rumplestiltskin" (Joe Zawinul) - 5:11 # "Inquisition" (Nat Adderley) - 2:25 # "Devastatement" (Nat Adderley) - 2:55 # "Pra Dizer Adeus (To Say Goodbye)" ( Edú Lobo,

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) - 2:49 # "The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free" (

) - 4:40 # "Sometime Ago" (

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) - 4:12 # "Exquisition" (Nat Adderley) - 4:15 # "Painted Desert" (Joe Zawinul) - 5:55 # "Directions" (Zawinul) - 1:35 # "Down in Black Bottom" (Nat Adderley) - 5:17 # "1-2-3-Go-O-O-O!" (Zawinul, McCurdy, Booker, Nat Adderley) - 4:41 # "Lonesome Stranger" (Nat Adderley) - 2:01 # "Get Up Off Your Knees" - 4:59 # "Wild-Cat Pee" - 3:22 # "Alto Sex" - 2:10 # "Bridges" (

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) - 4:21 # "Out and In" - 5:48 # "Together" (Nat Adderley Jr.) - 6:31 # "The Scene" (Nat Adderley, Zawinul) - 0:36 :*Recorded September 19, 1970 at the Monterey Jazz Festival (tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,13,17,19,20) :*Recorded October 5, 1970 at Capitol Studios (tracks 8,9,10,11,18) :*Recorded October 6, 1970 at Capitol Studios (tracks 12,14,15,16)

Personnel

* Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, vocals *

- cornet, vocals * Joe Zawinul - piano, electric piano,

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- bass * Roy McCurdy - drums *

- piano, electric piano, guitar, vocals *Bob West - bass

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Price You Got to Pay to Be Free, The 1970 live albums Capitol Records live albums Cannonball Adderley live albums Albums produced by David Axelrod (musician) Albums recorded at Capitol Studios