Sophisticated Swing is the fifth album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his fourth released on the EmArcy label, featuring performances with Nat Adderley, Junior Mance, Sam Jones and Jimmy Cobb.Cannonball Adderley discography accessed 14 October 2009 The front cover photograph was by Chuck Stewart taken at the Ulysses S. Grant Monument, Chicago, Illinois.
Reception The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars and states "The music is quite bop-oriented, bluesy but not as soulful as it would be when Cannonball put together a new group in 1959".Yanow, S. [ Allmusic Review] accessed 14 October 2009
Track listing "Another Kind of Soul" (Nat Adderley) - 3:41 "Miss Jackie's Delight" (Gene Wright) - 6:13 "Spring Is Here" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 3:47 "Tribute to Brownie" (Duke Pearson) - 3:32 "Spectacular" (Sam Jones) - 3:56 "Jeanie" (Jones) - 3:28 "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young) - 3:17 "Edie McLin" (Wright) - 5:21 "Cobbweb" (Wright) - 2:41 Recorded at Capitol Studios in New York City on February 6 (tracks 2, 4-5 & 9), February 8 (track 6) and February 11 (tracks 1, 3, 7 & 8), 1957
Personnel Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone Nat Adderley – cornet Junior Mance - piano Sam Jones - bass Jimmy Cobb - drums
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