Jim Snidero & Jeremy Pelt: Jubilation! Celebrating Cannonball Adderley
Author: Tony Hall
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Musicians: |
Jim Snidero (as) |
Label: |
Savant |
Magazine Review Date: |
July/2018 |
Catalogue Number: |
SCD 2167 |
RecordDate: |
23 December 2017 |
Jeremy Pelt must surely know the whole Adderley brothers' band book by heart – he's already a member of the Louis Hayes-led tribute band which has made a couple of CDs and appeared at Ronnie Scott's. And now comes this acknowledgement of what would have been Cannonball's 90th birthday. Pelt is partnered by altoist Snidero, who demonstrates the strong influence that Adderley has made on his own playing. The songs the pair have chosen aren't over-hackneyed and their two originals – one apiece from each horn-man – fit in fairly seamlessly. Nat's ‘Sack O' Woe’ and Julian's ‘Worksong’ are the two best-known from the Adderley repertoire, while bassist Sam Jones' ‘Del Sasser’ (originally on Them Dirty Blues) has been covered several times by, among others, our own Tubby Hayes. Drummer Walter Booker's lovely melodic minor-key swinger ‘Saudade’, with its particularly thoughtful solos is an interesting choice, as are two of the songs Cannon recorded with Coltrane on the 1959 Mercury album In Chicago – ‘Stars Fell on Alabama’ and, one of Cannon's least gospel-infused tunes, ‘Wabash’. Hazeltine, Reeves and Drummond are a top-notch rhythm section.

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