The Berlin 'Ball

We'll begin November with a quick anniversary concert before I go get lunch and the rent here.

This is gonna be short because my left hip hurts so badly I can no longer sit down at my desk.

What we have here is kind of a rejoinder to last week's birthday post, where I chose between the Ornette show I upped and a Cannonball Adderley performance from the same day a year later.

This one dates from exactly 8 days later in 1972, and surpasses all other Cannonball shows from this burning Europe/Fall 1972 tour by a fair amount in terms of sound quality.

This hour of funkified filth was taped for Radio Berlin and is sourced, from what the spectral analysis indicates, from a pre-FM master reel. As with all German radio endeavors, it's recorded as well as it can be, with those very expensive mics they have over there.

Cannonball Adderley Quintet

Philharmonie

Berlin, Germany

11.2.1972

01 radio introduction

02 The Black Messiah

03 announcement by Cannonball

04 Hummin'

05 announcement by Cannonball

06 Dr. Honoris Causa

07 announcement by Cannonball

08 Directions

09 Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

10 Untitled piano/bass duet

11 announcement by Cannonball

12 Walk Tall

Total time: 1:05:37

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - alto & soprano saxophones

Nat Adderley - cornet

George Duke - electric piano, piano, keyboards

Walter Booker - bass

Roy McCurdy - drums

spectral goes past 20kHz, so this must be a pre-FM master reel from RBB/Radio Berlin

402 MB FLAC/November 2017 archive link

I shall return in a few days with more, but for now go get this smokin' Cannon set, it's top notch Berlin 'Ball.--J.

9.15.1928 - 8.8.1975