Capturing the Scene: The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
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Published:March 2024
Chapter 5 focuses on Cannonball Adderley’s 1959 hit record, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco. Adderley’s onstage announcements and audible interactions with the audience became the record’s most defining characteristic, helping him to expand his popularity beyond a core jazz listenership. This chapter outlines how Adderley’s LP was part of a much wider trend by independent jazz labels to record Black hard-bop musicians on location at jazz nightclubs in the mid 1950s. Quintet in San Francisco thus sits at the intersection of the record industry’s experiments with live recording and jazz’s ever-evolving orientation to Black popular music. As a skillful record maker, Adderley became a popular sensation while also foregrounding a form of Black sociality and Black history in his music. A close listen to Quintet in San Francisco reveals how Adderley’s jazz commercialism worked simultaneously as an expression of his own Afro-modernism.
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