Takes Charge
by Cannonball Adderley
- Type: Album
- Released: August 1959
- Label: Riverside
- Country: United States
- Length: 52:52
- Community rating: 3.79/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Recorded around the same pivotal period he was deeply involved with Miles Davis's legendary sextet, this powerful quartet date demonstrates the alto saxophonist's immense command as a frontman. Supported by the exceptionally driving rhythm section of Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb, his solos are incredibly buoyant, endlessly inventive, and deeply steeped in the blues. The session is a magnificent, highly accessible testament to his status as a giant of the hard bop idiom.
Genres
Descriptors: acoustic, instrumental, improvisation
Tracklist
- If This Isn't Love (5:32)
- I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry (5:34)
- Serenata (4:16)
- I've Told Ev'ry Little Star (3:39)
- Barefoot Sunday Blues (7:03)
- Poor Butterfly (5:10)
- I Remember You (6:55)
- Barefoot Sunday Blues - Alternate Take (7:48)
- I Remember You - Alternate Take (6:52)
Credits
- Cannonball Adderley Quartet - primary artist
- Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone
- Paul Chambers - bass
- Percy Heath - bass
- Melvin Sokolsky - cover
- Paul Bacon - cover, cover [produced and designed by]
- Harris Lewine - cover [produced and designed by]
- Ken Braren - cover [produced and designed by]
- Albert Heath - drums
- Jimmy Cobb - drums
- Jack Higgins - engineer
- Jack Matthews - mastered by
- Lawrence N. Shustak - photography by [back-liner photograph]
- Wynton Kelly - piano
- Orrin Keepnews - producer, liner notes