{"id":972,"date":"2008-06-24T18:38:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T17:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2008-06-24T19:03:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T18:03:10","slug":"cannonball-adderley-soul-zodiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"cannonball adderley &#8211; soul zodiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/soul_zodiac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"244\" alt=\"soul_zodiac\" src=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/soul_zodiac_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>once in a while $tateside step aside from their usual program of well thought out soul\/disco\/funk compilations, dust down a long forgotten full length album, give the music a quick mastering touch up, and re-release the gem for all to hear.<\/p>\n<p>as soon as you see the cover, read the title, see that <strong>david axelrod<\/strong> produces, then you know that this 1972 release is essential.<\/p>\n<p>taking the simple premise of presenting the 12 signs of the zodiac to made to measure chunks of <strong>cannonball adderley&#8217;s<\/strong> sax fronted jazz sextet, with time stamped dialogue by <strong>rick holmes<\/strong> (a very important figure in the world of jazz radio by all accounts), and letting the whole spaced out jazz-funk groove loose over the next 67 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>now, as you may have realised, <u>ireallylovemusic<\/u> and jazz are not common bedfellows, but the addition of <strong>david axelrod<\/strong> to the equation means that the music often verges on the downright funky. and, being the old hip hop head that i am, i have recently realised that after years of listening to davids productions forming the foundation to many a head nodding sample, i now much prefer to kick back to the source material. as to be expected there are sections where the improv licks and pretentious narration (often echoed\/reverbed adding a era defining psychedelic vibe to the proceedings) begin to outstay their welcome, but when the band are tight and focused as in the amazing 13 minute closer, <font color=\"#008080\">taurus<\/font>, then there is genuinely nothing else like it for sheer ass shaking dirty guitar jazz-funk brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>with informative sleeve notes by dean rudland (who probably has the best job in the world given that he&#8217;s always involved with these reissues), brilliantly eccentric but often beautiful music, and yes, that cover, then this cannot fail to become one of the years most necessary reissues.<\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesiderecords.com\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; once in a while $tateside step aside from their usual program of well thought out soul\/disco\/funk compilations, dust down a long forgotten full length album, give the music a quick mastering touch up, and re-release the gem for all to hear. as soon as you see the cover, read the title, see that david [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}