Phenix

by Cannonball Adderley

Phenix cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Fantasy
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:12:30
  • Community rating: 3.25/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Cannonball Adderley reinterprets highlights from his extensive catalog through a distinctly modern soul-jazz lens on 'Phenix'. The session integrates electric pianos, synthesizers, and heavy jazz-funk rhythms to revitalize his classic hard bop compositions.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion

Tracklist

  1. Hi-Fly (6:08)
  2. Work Song - Instrumental (6:31)
  3. Sack O' Woe (5:09)
  4. Jive Samba (5:22)
  5. This Here (aka: Dis Hyunh) (7:15)
  6. The Sidewalks Of New York - Arrangement (5:39)
  7. Hamba Nami (5:27)
  8. Domination (6:58)
  9. Seventy-Four Miles Away/74 Miles (6:02)
  10. Country Preacher (4:29)
  11. Stars Fell On Alabama (5:52)
  12. Walk Tall/Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (7:32)

Credits

  • Sam Jones - acoustic bass
  • Walter Booker - acoustic bass, electric bass
  • Louis Hayes - drums
  • Roy McCurdy - drums
  • George Duke - keyboards, synthesizer [synthesizers], guest keyboard synthesizer
  • Mike Wolff - keyboards
  • David Turner - lacquer cut by [runout etching eyes with eyebrows]
  • Airto Moreira - percussion, congas [conga drums], congas guest percussion

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