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At The Lighthouse is another of the Adderley albums originally recorded on Riverside but taken by Adderley when he left the company for Capitol in 1963. For a time it was available in the 1990s on Landmark records, producer Orrin Keepnews's label, but this is its first CD release in Britain. On an album with already generous playing time by vinyl standards, there is an extra track, a workout on Tadd Dameron's "Our Delight". That apart, this was a popular record in its day, bringing to Adderley's fans their first recordings by the quintet of "Work Song" and "Sack O'Woe", two of their biggest early hits. ("Work Song" first appeared on brother Nat's eponymous Riverside album just before this). Cannon is his usual imperious self, that beautiful, buoyant tone helping his improvisations glide along. Nat, as always, is less perfect but more fiery, giving the partnership his own special sensibility. The superb bass and drums of Sam Jones and Louis Hayes is given a special lift by the new arrival of Victor Feldman on piano. The audience is quiet (hooray!), Cannon is urbane in his announcements and the recording quality is, for its age, spot-on. --Keith Shadwick
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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This was the first jazz LP I ever bought (in February 1963) so I have a strong emotional attachment to it but returning to it on CD (with an extra track!) it sounds every bit as good. Why are the jazz experts so sniffy about Cannonball? If you look at the front line on Kind of Blue, acknowledged as THE 20th century jazz masterpiece the front line was Miles, Trane and Julian Adderley. Miles and Trane rightly have godlike status but is Cannon so far behind? I think he more than held his own in the Miles groups of which he was a part yet he gets so little credit. I digress. This album is superb tight jazz with a bluesy feel and the added melodic appeal of the brilliant English pianist Victor Feldman on top form. The rest of the line-up is brother Nat(cornet) and the driving rhythm section of Louis Hayes and Sam Jones. The album is live in every sense, even after all these years. Buy it. And someone out there in the Jazz Guide writing world give Cannonball a bit more credit please.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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This album is amazing - beautiful soloing from the whole band, great compositions, wonderfully recorded. Classic, swinging, bluesy, soulful Cannonball. I've loved it for years and I'm only writing a review because no-one else has yet and it throughly deserves 5 stars along with the other Cannonball stuff! Pick it up and enjoy!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Recorded in October 1960 Cannonball had brother Nat, Victor Feldman, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes (cornet, piano, bass and drums respectively) backing him in a 53 minute live set at Harold Rumsey's Lighthouse Club on Hermosa Beach. Originally a Riverside recording the seven item master tape migrated to Capitol Records in 1963 and is now a valuable Capitol Jazz re-issue. This is a really important CD - a 'maturing' of Victor Feldman's piano style and compositions (Azule Serape/Exodus), a clearly tightly knit combo with the then new soul jazz style and the superb soloing talents of the leader. Whilst alternative versions of most tracks (the others are: Sack 'o woe, Big "P", Blue Daniel, What is this thing called love and Our Delight) can be found in Cannonball's repertoire these are ALL fine examples. Recomended.
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Masterpiece!
This album is a masterpiece and one of the best live recordings you will ever hear, every track is a joy. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ozhead
A word for Victor
I share the views of the other 'positive' reviewers, this is a land mark album in jazz, returning the introspective, esoteric jazz that it had in many ways become to once again an... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Lincoln
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Blaring brass, forgettable songs. Nat Adderly is an irritating trumpeter. If you want to hear Cannonball at his best, try Somethin' Else or Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, on which... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Bookman
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London in the early sixties. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. B. Bendel
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