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cornetist

Nat Adderley Nathaniel Carlyle Adderley (November 25, 1931 – January 2, 2000) was an American jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It ...

released on the CTI label featuring performances by Adderley with

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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 ...

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, and

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and an orchestra arranged and conducted by Bill Fischer.CTI discography
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Reception

The

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review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "A lovely, intensely musical album, well worth seeking out".Ginell, R. S.

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accessed February 19, 2010

Track listing

:''All compositions by Nat Adderley except as indicated'' # " You Baby" ( Ivy Hunter, Jack Goga,

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) - 2:46 # "

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) - 3:20 # "Electric Eel" - 4:58 # "Early Chanson" ka "Joe's Blues #1"(

) - 2:25 # "Denise" (Wilson J. Turbinton, Earl J. Turbinton) - 3:59 # "Early Minor" ka "Joe's Untitled #2"(Zawinul) - 3:45 # "My Son" ( Caiphus Semenya) - 4:28 # "New Orleans" - 4:20 # "Hang On In" (Eric Knight) - 3:31 # "Halftime" (Nat Adderley, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley) - 2:39 :*Recorded at Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 26, 1968 (tracks 4 & 7), March 27, 1968 (tracks 3, 6 & 9), March 28, 1968 (tracks 2, 5, 8 & 10) and April 4, 1968 (track 1)

Personnel

Musicians * Nat Adderley –

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flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

* Harvey Estrin, Romeo Penque, Joe Soldo - flute * George Marge - flute,

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* Al Brown, Selwart Clarke, Bernard Zaslav -

viola The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than violins, and have a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the ...

* Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Alan Shulman -

cello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

* Bill Fischer -

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Production *

Creed Taylor Creed Bane Taylor V (May 13, 1929 – August 22, 2022) was an American record producer, best known for his work with CTI Records, which he founded in 1967. His career also included periods at Bethlehem Records, ABC-Paramount Records (includin ...

– producer *

Rudy Van Gelder Rudolph Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including Booker Ervin, John Coltrane, Mil ...

– engineer * Sam Antupit – design * Pete Turner - photography

References

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