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Phenix (album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Phenix

| type = Album

| artist = Cannonball Adderley

| cover = Phenix (album).jpg

| alt =

| released = 1975

| recorded = February–April, 1975

| venue =

| studio = Fantasy (Berkeley)

| genre = Jazz

| length = 71:45

| label = Fantasy

| producer = Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Nat Adderley, and Orrin Keepnews

| chronology = Cannonball Adderley

| prev_title = Pyramid

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = Lovers

| next_year = 1975

}}

Phenix is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded in 1975 at the Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California, featuring performances by Adderley's Quintet with Nat Adderley, keyboardist Michael Wolff, bassist Walter Booker and drummer Roy McCurdy with guest percussionist Airto Moreira and past Quintet members keyboardist George Duke, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Louis Hayes guesting on select tracks. The program essentially consists of energetic new arrangements of the Quintet's best known pieces from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, including Nat Adderley's “Work Song”.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/cannonball-adderley/catalog/#fantasy-f-79004 Cannonball Adderley discography], accessed November 4, 2009.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states: "Adderley's next-to-last recording (cut just four months before he died of a stroke at age 46) was ironically a retrospective.... A recommended set with plenty of excellent music, it serves as a fine overview of Cannonball Adderley's career."Yanow, S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r151343|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review], accessed November 4, 2009.

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}

| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz

| rev2Score = {{rating|2.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |author-link=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=11}}

|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev3Score = {{rating|1|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| author-link =

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

|url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen

|url-access=registration

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/5 5]

}}

}}

Track listing

All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated

  1. "Hi-Fly" (Randy Weston) - 6:04
  2. "Work Song" (Nat Adderley) - 6:28
  3. "Sack O' Woe" - 5:06
  4. "Jive Samba" (Nat Adderley) - 5:19
  5. "This Here" (Bobby Timmons) - 7:12
  6. "The Sidewalks of New York" (James W. Blake, Charles B. Lawlor) - 5:37
  7. "Hamba Nami" - 5:24
  8. "Domination" - 6:55
  9. "74 Miles Away" (Joe Zawinul) - 5:58
  10. "Country Preacher" (Zawinul) - 4:26
  11. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) - 5:48
  12. "Walk Tall/Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Queen Esther Marrow, Jim Rein, Zawinul/Zawinul) - 7:28
  • Recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA, in February, March & April 1975

Personnel

References

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Category:1975 albums

Category:Fantasy Records albums

Category:Cannonball Adderley albums

Category:Nat Adderley albums

Category:Albums produced by Orrin Keepnews