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Dis Here A Bio-Discography of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
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Chris Sheridan
Book Code: GR0240
ISBN: 0-313-30240-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30240-4
560 pages, appendices
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/2000
List Price: $145.00 (UK Sterling Price: £80.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Discographies
Series Number: 83
Reviews:
  • ...a welcome addition to the jazz literature....Highly recommended for record collectors and all jazz libraries.
    —Choice
  • This annotated discography painstakingly lists every recording session with Cannonball Adderley, and even a day-by-day accounting of his entire professional career. While intended for serious fans and collectors, it contains no end of fascinating information.
    —The Ledger     June 19, 2005
  • [S]erves as an invaluable compendium of indispensable information about a major figure in the history of jazz.
    —American Reference Books Annual
  • Dis Here, like Sheridan's Count Basie, is a monumental production, a volume that no discographer, or serious admirer of Cannonball's artistry, can afford to be without.
    —Jazz Notes
  • Chris Sheridan has again taken the discographical work of a single artist another step forward.
    —IAJRC Journal
Description: Chris Sheridan presents a major discographical study of an American jazz giant, "Cannonball" Adderley, whose career had a significant impact on jazz's development. At the same time, Sheridan stretches the boundaries of discography in two important ways: In scope and in presentation. In scope, the session listings not only include every known commercially recorded issue--a factor neglected by growing numbers of discographers covering a single artist--but also all known recorded sessions, particularly from film, and broadcasts on radio and television. The latter are providing a quickly growing market for issues on independent record labels, especially by artists no longer alive. The main discographical text also includes a narrative aiming to place the recorded music in context, both in Adderley's own career and in the development of jazz. Sheridan also continues a unique section, pioneered in his earlier Count Basie: A Bio-Discography--the day-by-day "diary" of the musician's musical activities. This is not only significant in its own right, it also serves to authenticate the chronology of the sessions listed in the main discography. In terms of presentation, Sheridan aims to present a more stylish face by using a variety of related fonts to enhance clarity and by a radical rearrangement of the information given in each session listing. A definitive work essential for all researchers of jazz.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Know What I Mean?
  • Bohemia After Dark
  • Milestones
  • Spontaneous Combustion
  • Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
  • Who Bent the Rainbow?
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices: Cannon's Grooves, Sharpshooters, Work Song, Book-Ends
  • Indexes: General Index, Cannon's Groovers, Chordnations
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