SELLING POINTS: CANNONBALL ADDERLEY: • Cannonball Adderley Was a Mainstay The Black Messiah (2-CD Set) of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue Band and Was a Charting Solo Artist During the In 1970, Cannonball Adderley recorded a series of concerts that resulted in three cult ‘60s (“Mercy, Mercy, Mercy”) classic live albums, of which this double-album—produced, like other landmark double albums of the time like Soul Zodiac and Soul of the Bible, by David Axelrod—is the • The Black Messiah Was One of a hardest to find. It captures Cannonball and the Quintet (brother Nat Adderley on Celebrated Series of Collaborations cornet, Roy McCurdy on drums, Walter Booker on bass and George Duke—fresh with Producer David Axelrod from replacing Joe Zawinul, who had left to form Weather Report—on keyboards) at • Featured Quintet of Nat Adderley, the forefront of the burgeoning electronic jazz-rock fusion movement, sounding at Roy McCurdy, Walter Booker and times every bit like the early ‘70s band of Cannonball’s former bandleader Miles George Duke Davis, except maybe even funkier and more out there. But Cannonball always had a populist streak to him—after all, the man had a Top 20 hit with “Mercy, Mercy, • Guests Included Airto Moreira, Mercy”—and so The Black Messiah also features flat-out rock and roll (guest Alvin Battiste, Ernie Watts, Buck Clark guitarist Mike Deasy’s “Liittle Benny Hen”) as well as dips into the soul-jazz style and Mike Deasy that had landed him on the charts several years earlier, all punctuated by his always • Recorded Live at the Troubadour in entertaining between-song raps. The band is killer, too, with guests including, in addition to Deasy, Los Angeles During Same Concert percussionists Airto Moreira and Buck Clark, clarinetist Alvin Battiste and saxman Ernie Watts. How this fascinating Stand That Produced the Album double live album—which was recorded at the Troubadour in Los Angeles during the same concerts that yielded the Music, You All album Music, You All—has eluded reissue till now is anybody’s guess, but our Real Gone Music/Dusty Groove release features liner notes by Cannonball devotee Bill Kopp, with original art and added photos. Remastered by Maria Triana at • Liner Notes by Bill Kopp Battery Studios in NYC—one of the most mindblowing collaborations between Adderley and Axelrod! • Original Gatefold Album Art with Added Photos Songs:

• Complete Double Album on Two CDs DISC ONE DISC TWO • Remastered by Maria Triana at 1. Introduction 1. The Chocolate Nuisance Battery Studios in NYC 2. The Black Messiah 2. Untitled 3. Monologue 3. The Steam Drill • Worldwide CD Debut for an 4. Little Benny Hen 4. Eye of the Cosmos Adventuresome Cult Classic 5. Zanek 5. Episode from The Music Came 6. Dr. Honouris Causa 6. Heritage STREET DATE: April 29, 2014 7. Circumference LABEL: Real Gone Music 8. Pretty Paul GENRE: Jazz 9. The Scene FORMAT: CD ORDER USING 848064002475