Big Man: The Legend of John Henry

Big Man: The Legend of John Henry album in studio
Artista	Cannonball Adderley
Pubblicazione	1975
Durata	57:57
Dischi	2
Tracce	32
Genere	Jazz
Etichetta	Milestone Records
Produttore	Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley, David Axelrod
Registrazione	"Fantasy Studios" di Berkeley in California (Stati Uniti), 1975
Formati	LP da 12" e Stereo8
Altri formati	CD
Cannonball Adderley - cronologia
Album precedente Phenix (1975) Album successivo Lovers (1975)

Big Man: The Legend of John Henry è il 32° album di Julian Cannonball Adderley, pubblicato dalla Milestone Records nel 1975.

Tracce

Lato A

1. Overture – 2:17 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
2. Anybody Need a Big Man – 3:49 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
3. Who Bend the Rainbow – 3:42 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
4. Forty More Miles to Go / Rouster's Chant – 1:17 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
5. Ten Mile of Mountain / Recitative : Who Up in Heaven – 3:00 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)

Durata totale: 14:05

Lato B

1. Dialogue (Carolina) – 0:13
2. Gonna Give Lovin' Try – 3:15 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
3. The Broomstick Song – 1:24 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
4. Next Year in Jerusalem – 2:18 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
5. Dialogue (Carolina, John Henry) – 0:27
6. Stayin' Place (Intro) – 0:34 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
7. Stayin' Place – 2:38 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
8. Dialogue (Carolina) – 0:19
9. A New Star Risin' – 2:02 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
10. The Steamdrill Race (Intro) – 0:50 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)

Durata totale: 14:00

Lato C

1. Anybody Need a Big Man – 6:07 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
2. Grind You Own Coffee – 3:10 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
3. Anybody Need a Big Man / Dialogue (Deputy) – 0:47 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
4. Hundred An' One Year / M'Ria – 1:29 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
5. River – 2:11 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
6. A New Star Risin' – 0:30 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
7. Dialogue (Carolina & Jassawa) – 0:21

Durata totale: 14:35

Lato D

1. Hundred An' One Year / M'Ria – 1:15 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
2. Recitative : Born Black – 2:12 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
3. Dialogue (Jassawa) – 0:08
4. Poundin' – 3:04 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
5. Dialogue (John Henry & Bull Maree) – 0:38
6. The Steamdrill Race – 1:32 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
7. We Saved / Dialogue (Carolina) – 0:26 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
8. Jesus Where You Now? – 2:03 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
9. If Was Jehovah – 2:36 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
10. On His Bones (Finale) – 1:23 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)

Durata totale: 15:17

Musicisti

Cannonball Adderley Orchestra

• Julian Cannonball Adderley - sassofono alto
• Bill Green - sassofono
• Jackie Kelso - sassofono
• Don Menza - sassofono
• Jay Migliori - sassofono
• Oscar Brashear - tromba
• Oscar DeRienzo - tromba
• Oliver Mitchell - tromba
• George Bohanon - trombone
• Dick Hyde - trombone
• Jimmy Jones - pianoforte
• Dawilli Gonga (pseudonimo di George Duke) - tastiere
• Billy Fender - chitarra
• Don Peake - chitarra
• Walter Booker - contrabbasso
• Carol Kaye - basso elettrico
• Roy McCurdy - batteria
• King Errisson - percussioni
• Airto Moreira - percussioni
• Randy Crawford - voce
• Joe Williams - voce
• David Axelrod (probabile presenza) - arrangiamenti, conduttore musicale
• Jack Shulman - archi - concertmaster
• Bernard Kundell - strings
• William Henderson - strings
• Jerome Reisler - strings
• Henry Roth - strings
• Arthur H. Brown - strings
• Mary Newkirk - strings
• Pamela Goldsmith - strings
• Gareth Nuttycombe - strings
• Alexander Neiman - strings
• William Hymanson - strings
• Alfred Lustgarten - strings
• Kathleen Lustgarten - strings
• Edgar Lustgarten - strings
• Mortonette Jenkins - cori
• Gwendolyn Owens - cori
• Jessie Richardson - cori
• Stephanie Spruill - cori
• Vernetta Royster - cori
• Donald Dandridge - cori
• Sherwood Sledge - cori
• Fleming Williams - cori
• Charles May - cori
• Josef Powell - cori
• Michael Gray - cori
• Billie Barnum - cori

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Big Man: The Legend of John Henry, su Discogs, Zink Media.
• (EN) Big Man: The Legend of John Henry, su rateyourmusic.com, Rate Your Music. URL consultato il 6 novembre 2013.
• (EN) Big Man: The Legend of John Henry, su cannonball-adderley.com. URL consultato il 6 novembre 2013.
• (EN) Big Man: The Legend of John Henry, su worldcat.org. URL consultato il 6 novembre 2013.