Customer Reviews

Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celeb Cannonball

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Tom Scott's highly successful and involved career in the very highest levels of the business has touched several bases - from standards to jazz and pop - and he has worked with the Don Ellis and Oliver Nelson bands, and with pop icons like Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and George Harrison as well.
Tom's saxophone has featured on over four hundred recordings as a sideman, with credits including Thelonious Monk, Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin and Frank Sinatra, and has earned him 13 Grammy nominations and 3 Grammy Awards.
A noted composer, arranger, bandleader and conductor as well as instrumentalist, he is also famed for composing the theme tune to the hit Seventies TV show Starsky & Hutch - The Complete Second Season.
But, despite Scott's place in the rock reference books, the saxmaster, who pioneered jazz-rock with the L.A. Express - a jazz-funk band that rocked audiences in the 1970s and later when it reformed in the mid-1990s, with a string of fantastic recordings - is more of a footnote in jazz.
He is a consistent and highly rated session player whose career has seen him traverse genres with ease and his pedigree as a musician cannot be doubted.
The Los Angeles-born multi- instrumentalist's new album "Cannon Re-loaded" is a collection of tunes closely associated with Cannonball Adderley interpreted by an all-star collection of players, to celebrate and reinterpret the music of the jazz giant.
On this tribute he's joyned by trumpeter Terence Blanchard, pianist George Duke (who was actually a member of the Adderley quintet and who also plays Rhodes and Wurlitzer), drummer Steve Gadd, bassists Marcus Miller and Dave Carpenter, and Larry Goldings on the Hammond B-3, and Nancy Wilson on two tracks "Save The Love For Me" and "The Masquerade is Over", from her classic 1961 recording Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley.
The playing is of a high standard throughout.
The CD represents everything that makes contemporary jazz so enjoyable and satisfying; superb musicianship, strong and imaginative compositions, excellent arranging, live drums , and diverse interplay among the lead instrumental voices.
It's evident through the stellar production and sound quality that Tom Scott is a master at his craft.
It's all nicely played and beautifully recorded.
The best moments spring from his love of Adderley, with the delicious version of the opener "Jive Samba" (with George Duke, who dazzles on acoustic piano).
Without copying his hero, Scott plays eloquent tribute to an important, underrated figure in the jazz canon, smoothing off the rough edges for this well-chosen collection of tunes and re-establishing his own claim to return from the margins.
Stand out track : "Jive Samba", "Country Preacher" and "The Masquerade Is Over".
Tom Cat
Smokin' Section
Bluestreak
Tom Scott & the L.A. Express
Enjoy.

Check out this stellar line up of virtuoso musicians as they pay homage to the great altoist Cannonball Adderley! Impeccable playing and recording quality! Legendary drummer Steve Gadd and bassist Marcus Miller provide the steady, inspiring groove and foundation for the soloists.

NOTE: I'd like to make two corrections to the previous review. Tom Scott's theme for Starsky & Hutch was first heard in the second season of the show and he was born in L.A., not England.

I was pleasantly surprised when I received this CD from Amazon and plopped it into the stereo. It is even better than I thought it would be! A fitting tribute to the late Cannoball Adderly; it features some of today's most accomplished jazz musicians. I fullheartedly recommend this album if you love jazz or just good music!

I never thought I would like anything by Tom Scott, since I always associated him with smooth jazz, but he certainly shows his straight ahead jazz roots here.
Not only is he smoking, but Blanchard, Duke and Gadd are amazing.
Cannonball would be proud.

It's the best tribute CD ever!!!!!! It's an Experience put on CD. Nothing like it. Very close to the originals. With Smooth Jazz, I don't impress easy. With most tribute CD's they do song diffrently. Not Here.

Tom Scott has recreated some of Cannonball's classic pieces inserting his own unique sound and accompanied by an all star band. I have totally enjoyed this CD!