"Experience in E", "Morning of the Carnival", "Work Song" og "Walk Tall". Cannonball Adderely (sax), Joe Zawinul (Piano), Nat Adderley (cornet), Victor Gaskin (bass), Roy McCurdy (drums). From Centralteatret, Oslo, 1969.
Cannonball exudes class and dignity, heaping praise upon his bandmates most effusively while adding poignant commentary to the pieces. Can't say enough good about him.
@@mikewoodman2872 Hello to you, Just came across this site by chance. Yours comment concerning Julians, playing on this gig very interesting ( by the way, this isn't a criticism your comment ) Peace to all.
Me neither, but it's terrific, less brilliant soulbop but freer, he even sounds like a bit like Coltrane at the start and Nat a touch Miles - Joe Zawinuls input after Bobby Timmons maybe, but anyway, a great post, thanks.
Oslo in '69. Holy hell, I wish I had a time machine for concerts. I could have chilled with my uncle and watched this killer show. May uncle Jock rest in peace!
Roy McCurdy still around town, playing gigs in LA. I get to chat him up once in awhile. Numbers like this and 74 Miles Away gave him a chance to really stretch out with time sigs.
I'm a bit of a fan of Roy's work with Cannonball ( - only just finished typing a comment about his under-the-radar genius minutes ago on another Cannon' vid!) - just love his feel (in either swing or straight grooves), and appreciate his attention to what is happening with the mood of the music, a subtle skill beyond just reacting to ideas being played in the moment. If you're still bumping into him, please tell him for me, that an Aussie piano player & drummer appreciates his contributions greatly !
@@EuphratTigris Dude - it's ME who's the Aussie piano player ... think I know where I'm from mate, and the {irrelevant} fact that Joe Zawinul is Austrian was NEVER lost on me since the first time I read about him 30 years ago. I see ya typin' but ya ain't sayin' nuthin.
Man,so glad to see and hear this video! Music as so great worldwide and jazz was still doing well! Rock made a dent but that simple sh!t could not compete with real music!
Another great download from the true lovers of jazz, the European archives (mostly Scandinavian) who managed to always record and memorialize American jazz artists. Something US never did. Luckily we have this treasure trove of lost performances. Thank you Lasse P.
@@FreeCorps1984 , frankly it was Miles who introduced the electric piano to move jazz to the modern ellements that exist today spawning Weather Report, Return to Forever and other future fuzzion style of bands. Expanded the music....
But you can still clearly hear the Benny Carter influence (his greatest influence of all!) - in the sound during his reading of the melody in Luiz Bonfá's "Manhã de Carnaval".
He played with Trane brother as you know, he didn't have to listen to him, Nat and Cannon were moving with the music, you can here the effect of all the players on each other, Miles, Nat, Cannon, Trane, Sonny, it was organic because they got to play almost every night, make income, have homes, and play with each other. It seems the influence of Lennie Tristano, Ornette, Eric, Trane was touching everyone, and vice versa, as Cannon had touched all alto players. Bird had just passed away when Cannon made his debut in NY, so well.....as Lou Donaldson said, good timing for Cannon. Life....
Oh My God. Nat's tone is amazing. Love Joe (Zawinul)'s look and dress manner -- like, later with that Classical Stuff, lemme get my groove on wit choo fellas lol. Gaskin, he be'a GROOVIN'. Ron Carter, you wish you could. Cannon, love you with Miles. Oh My God! RIP, fellas! Roy is still here and I wonder if he schooled at the same time as Ron (Carter) at Eastman?
I saw this group (or an analog-recombinant version thereof) at The (FIRST) Hampton Jazz Festival at Hampton University (then Hampton Institute) in Hampton, VA. as a child (11yrs.old). My Mom, her, friend and co-worker/soror, my aunt and uncle in tow took me along. Jimmy Smith was on the bill I believe too, and Wes Montgomery was slated to appear, but had just (within days/maybe weeks) passed on from heart failure, which was announced to the shock and disappointment of the audience. Sly and The Family Stone were there as well. I 'think' they (Sly and Co.) were subbing for the absence of Mr. Montgomery. I don't remember who else was on the bill. I'll have to look that up. So that must have been 1968. Cannonball's group was a major attraction. More memories of better days. I don't need to go into a life-long story about my love of every Cannonball musical aggregation. What a(nother) teacher!
Never referred to his self as DR. But held a PHD in music. I believe that festival was Marian Mekeba Herbie Man I saw the same show in Philly. When they announced that West Montgomery had died everybody in the stadium lit a match. Hugh Masekela Hell of a show.
Thanks, maybe you are right. We had one channel owned by the state, and they used full resources on every program they made, so the Equipment was probably top notch for the time.
Dies ist eine legendäre Aufnahme von einem Live-Konzert mit dem Cannonball Adderley Quintet aus dem Jahre 1969. Parallel zu dieser Musik erstand damals der sogenannte Freejazz. Aber der "Freejazz" hatte die Elemente der Musik wie Rhythmus, Melodie und Harmonie total ignoriert und konnte daher nicht wirklich überleben. Das Cannonball Adderley Quintet hat schon damals total frei gespielt und das ohne musikalische Elemente zu ignorieren. Alle Musiker improvisieren frei über die Themen und die jeweilige Form. Kunst ist die Freiheit in der Form.
my name is Julian, I'm in my late 50s and my Paps who is pushing 90, just sent me this link to check... think the old man's tryin to tell the young man something?!
Cannonball starts serious for the euro-audience; orchestral stylings and harmonies in 'experience in-E, and; morning of the carnival' and Zawinul's way-ahead-of-time assimilation of music-concrete meets church black-keys swing setting the perfect mood. At 13.27 'cannonball' remarks; 'Victor Gaskin, of course, is obviously a superior player..' so righteous. Nat and Julian are hip (and from Florida). 'Work song' is funkier than most cotton-picking tunes and the band is in its element; Cannonball advises that black-music should come from tradition, not the top-40, lol (jibe at Miles?), and that Nat's children got college-educated on its popularity, lol. Zawinul's 'walk tall' (on the wurlitzer.?) is diagnostic of this quintet's gospel-soul meets Strauss with Mr. McCurdy generating a near-linear 'Clyde Stubblefield'-style backbeat.. Excellent. Thanks for posting
I used to study and sort of copy Cannonball's "introductions" to his solos. Played at the Lighthouse with the Santa Monica High School "danceband." We won the Hollywood Bowl "Battle of the Bands" in 1964. I was on the stage's turn-around on Baritone Ax.
Played at Shelly's Mann Hole after the gig. Owner told us at the club's table about how Bird came upon everyone "suddenly!." Shelly's drummer, "Big" Dan Bagasal on trumpet. Me on alto sax. The tenor sax man , I've forgotten his name. But he sounded a lot like Warren Marsh. I borrowed his read once. Forgot to return it. and he said to me, "Geesus Greg, f__k you." I said "Yeah, you're right, man."
Channel 9 newsman in L.A., around 2:00 PM, announced Adderley's death, saying "All you have to do to become like Cannonball Adderley, is to play better than everyone else in the world."
This is The Cannonball group after Joe recorded “In a silent way” and maybe Bitches Brew and played them for the brothers Adderly. Nat had definitely heard Bitches Brew
Cannonball en aquesta ocasió, tan ben acompanyat, fent gala de la seva gran versatilitat a més d'adaptant-se a les tendències del moment. Sempre molt recomanable.
At 2:26 the button that the stage hand has been furiously trying to get working since they started playing starts working and you can finally see the band.
