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Cannonball Adderley Quintet – In Chicago

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  • Cannonball’s final Mercury label release appears on the site for only the second time ever, here with INCREDIBLE Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) grades or close to them on both sides of this original pressing
  • These are just a few of the things we had to say about this stunning copy in our notes: “big and tubey and weighty”…”jumping out [of the speakers]”…”powerful drums”…”breathy, 3D sax”…”deep, note-like bass”…”lively and silky”
  • This is an amazingly well-recorded album – big, rich, and positively exploding with the jazz energy Adderley is known for
  • There are some bad marks and problems in the vinyl (as is sometimes the nature of the beast with these early pressings), but once you hear just how killer sounding this copy is, you might be inclined, as we were, to stop counting ticks and pops and just be swept away by the music
  • 4 1/2 stars: “Altoist Cannonball Adderley and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane really push each other on these six selections… With pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy Cobb playing up to their usual level, this gem is highly recommended.”

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Cannonball Adderley Quintet In Chicago – Not Bad on Speakers Corner Heavy Vinyl

Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Cannonball Adderley Available Now

Sonic Grade: B?

A fairly good Speakers Corner jazz album (we’re assuming). Years ago we wrote the following:

“This one has excellent sound (in that left-right jazz of the fifties kind of way).”

We can’t be sure that we would still feel the same way (about the excellent sound; the hard left right is not up for debate). My guess is that this is still probably a good record if you can get one for the 30 bucks we used to charge.

Our Hot Stamper pressings will be dramatically more transparent, open, clear and just plain REAL sounding, because these are all the areas in which heavy vinyl pressings tend to fall short, in our experience, our experience coming from hundreds and hundreds of them, as you can see below.

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