''Country Preacher'' is a live album recorded by the

Cannonball Adderley Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Adderley is perhaps best remembered for the 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", whi ...

Quintet in 1969. Recorded at an unidentified church meeting of the Chicago chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket, the album spent two months in the ''

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'' R&B charts in 1970. Described by discographer and Adderley biographer Chris Sheridan as "an audible sociological record",Sheridan, Chris ''Dis here: a bio-discography of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley''
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000 the introduction is by the Reverend

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. Hamilton, Andrew. Review at allmusic/ref> The liner notes, written by Adderley, give some background to Operation Breadbasket and the Country Preacher. The album is the first with bassist Booker as a member of the Quintet. Adderley, in his introduction to the title track, mentions fellow saxophonist Ben Branch, the director of the Operation Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir.Thomas, Lorenzo & Lynn Nielsen, Aldon ''Don't deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition''
University of Michigan Press, 2008 , 9780472068920

Track listing

Introduction by the Reverend Jesse Jackson # " Walk Tall" (Zawinul, Marrow, Rein) 5:03 # "Country Preacher" (Joe Zawinul) 4:30 # "Hummin'" (Nat Adderley) 6:32 # "Oh Babe" (Nat Adderley, Julian Adderley) 4:50 # "Afro-Spanish Omlet"
a. Umbakwen (Nat Adderley) 4:30
b. Soli Tomba (W. Booker) 3:03
c. Oiga (Joe Zawinul) 4:23
d. Marabi (Julian Adderley) 3:47 # "The Scene" (Joe Zawinul, Nat Adderley) 2:01

Personnel

* Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - alto and soprano saxophones * Nat Adderley - cornet and vocals on "Oh Babe" *

Joe Zawinul Josef Erich Zawinul ( '; 7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to bec ...

- keyboards * Walter Booker - bass *

Roy McCurdy Roy McCurdy (born November 28, 1936) is a jazz drummer. Career Before joining Cannonball Adderley's Quintet in 1965 and staying with the band until Adderley's death in 1975, he had played with Chuck and Gap Mangione in the Jazz Brothers (1960� ...

- drums

References

1970 live albums Cannonball Adderley live albums Albums produced by David Axelrod (musician) Capitol Records live albums {{1960s-jazz-album-stub