Backdoor Blues with the Cannonball Adderley 5Tet (FSRCD 794)

Backdoor Blues with the Cannonball Adderley 5Tet View larger

Backdoor Blues with the Cannonball Adderley 5Tet

Fresh Sound Records

8427328607940

ABS 140202

FSRCD 794

JAZZ

1

Backdoor Blues with the Cannonball Adderley 5Tet

More details

Currently unavailable

CD 11,99 €

One of the most exciting of the blues shouters ever was Texas-born Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson (1917-1988) whose declamatory style and big, virile voice had the intensity and impact of such other greats as Joe Turner and Jimmy Rushing.

But Vinson was also a musician of much wider scope; he was one of the first altoists outside the bebop inner circle to absorb the innovations of Charlie Parker, while Coltrane worked in his band in 1952-1953. After a spell off the scene, he was signed by altoist Cannonball Adderley to record for Riverside Records, the label for which Adderley himself worked.

“Back Door Blues” is the result of two successful sessions in 1961-2, on which the Cannonball Adderley Quintet offered Cleanhead a solid, spirited, blues-rooted foundation for his earthy singing and basic, pure-lined, lyrical alto. With both Cannonball and Nat Adderley also in prime form, Joe Zawinul delivering funk without triteness, and Sam Jones and Louis Hayes completing an idiomatically flexible rhythm section that combined sophistication with implacable swing, it was a reminder of just how good Vinson was at both aspects of his art.

Personnel 

Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, vocals (#1-3, 5-9, 13 & 14), alto sax (#4,5,10-13 & 15)
Nat Adderley, cornet
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, alto sax (#1,3, 6-9 & 14)
Joe Zawinul, piano
Sam Jones, bass
Louis Hayes, drums


Recorded at Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago, September 19, 1961 (#3,4,5,6,9,10 & 11-15) and Bell Sound Studios, New York City, February 14, 1962 (#1,2,7 & 8)

Tracklisting:

01. Bright Lights, Big City 2:13
02. This Time 2:31
03. Hold It! [Original Full Version] 4:15
04. Arriving Soon 6:28
05. Kidney Stew 4:16
06. Back Door Blues [Master Take Edited Version] 2:16
07. Person to Person 2:44
08. Just a Dream 3:00
09. Audrey 4:46
10. Vinsonology 4:01
11. Cannonizing 6:28
12. Bernice’s Bounce 6:18
13. Kidney Stew [Alternate Take #3] 4:13
14. Back Door Blues [Alternate Take Unedited] 3:33
15. Vinsonology [Alternate Take #2] 4:03


All compositions by Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, except #1 by Jimmy Reed, #3 by Eddie Vinson-Ollie Jones, #5 by E.Vinson-Blackman, and #8 by Bill Broonzy