Cannonball Adderley Sextet – Jazz Workshop Revisited

In 1963 Cannonball Adderley signed with the Capitol label, retaining the rights to some master tapes recorded earlier while he was with Riverside. Jazz Workshop Revisited contains music much closer to the altoist’s freewheeling Riverside period than to his R&B-ish Capitol dates. Adderley’s greatest band — a sextet with cornetist Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef (on tenor, flute, and oboe), pianist Joe Zawinul, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Louis Hayes — is featured on such exciting numbers as “Jessica’s Day,” Jones’ “Unit 7,” and “The Jive Samba.” A special treat of this live date is hearing the leader’s introductory words to several of the songs.