SEALED Jazz LP PROMO Cannonball Adderley Accent on Africa orig. 1968 vinyl

$

40

A SEALED, ORIGINAL promotional-only EXAMPLE OF THIS 1968 RARITY... and 

don't forget that promotional albums are always the "first-of-the-first"

pressings, in the original-issue year.  

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CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET  Accent on Africa  Capitol Records ST 2987

1968 original U.S. pressing  [no vinyl reissue since then in the U.S.]

Sealed, unopened, with "FREE" stamp/punch in corner (promotional) 

Vinyl is presumed to be in MINT condition. 

Cover is NEAR MINT (square and flat; no cut-out marks; no creases or bends save for a very-very minor bump in the lower left corner, the kind that you don't see at first; no seam splits; no ring wear; very minor tear in the shrink on the front, as seen in second image; no storage odors; colors are sharp, without fading). PLEASE SEE THE IMAGES.

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Cannonball Adderley's tenure at Capitol Records in the 1960s saw him working extensively with the label's great composer-arranger-producer David Axelrod. The pair made for a good team – Adderley produced some of his best-ever work with The Ax.

This splendid 1968 album is a kind of Afro-big band session featuring the great saxophonist, a whole host of uncredited musicians – horns, reeds, percussionists, vocalists – alongside Cannonball's brother Nat on cornet and trumpet and (probably) Axelrod on piano and keys, as well as at the controls. It's everything one expects from a Cannonball Adderley date – big, good-natured, soulful blowing from the man himself, backed with robust but sympathetic trumpet and cornet from little brother Nat.

Axelrod's backdrop for the two leads is both expansive and evocative – and downright irresistible, nowhere more so than on Cannonball's own composition, the Afro-Cuban blues ‘Hamba Nami’ (Zulu for ‘walk with me’), which if it doesn't get your foot tapping, then there's no hope for you. Also noteworthy are a powerful Afro-gospel flavoured take on Wes Montgomery's ‘Up And At It’; the boisterous, clattering party piece ‘Gumba Gumba’;  and the hi-life of ‘Marabi’, which manages to also include elements from South America and the Caribbean.

All in all, then, one of the highlights of the Cannonball canon, with the two brothers having an absolute whale of a time in the new and unusual (for the time) context in which they found themselves.

-- Kevin Whitlock, Jazzwise

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