Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners


Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners is an album by jazz saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley released on the Riverside label, featuring performances by Adderley with Wes Montgomery, Ray Brown, Victor Feldman, and Louis Hayes.

Reception

The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer praised some of the soloing, but added: "This sounds like a gathering of strangers. No one seems at ease – with the tunes or each other". The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states "This was the only meeting on records by Adderley and Montgomery and, although not quite a classic encounter, the music swings hard and is quite enjoyable". The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars stating "The Poll Winners session was a typical all-star meeting of the day, and if it seemed artificial at the time, how good it is to be able to hear, nearly 50 years on, Adderley, Montgomery and Brown in the same band. If there's nothing which could be called surprising, the opportunity to hear these players in their prime is a treat".

Track listing

  1. "The Chant" – 6:36
  2. "Lolita" – 8:06
  3. "Azule Serape" – 6:29
  4. "Au Privave" – 3:54
  5. "Yours Is My Heart Alone" – 6:04
  6. "Never Will I Marry" – 8:32
  7. "Au Privave" – 4:25 Bonus track on CD
Bonus tracks on the 2011 Essential Jazz Classics CD:
  2. "Music in the Air" – 3:57
  3. "Pretty Strange" – 2:53
  4. "The Shouter" – 5:03
  5. "Social Call" – 2:22
  6. "Out of the Past" – 4:54

Personnel

Tracks #1–7:
Tracks #8–12: