Title: Big Man: Legend of John Henry
Artist: Cannonball Adderley
Label: Real Gone Music
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 848064003533
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2015-04-07
Number of Discs: 1

Digitally remastered edition of this 1975 album by the Jazz great. In what would turn out to be the final years of his short life, jazz great Julian "Cannonball" Adderley embarked on a number of ambitious, genre-stretching projects. The last of these was 1975's Big Man, the score for a musical play based on the John Henry ("the steel driving man") American folk legend. The album was released as a two-LP set with libretto, and featured music from Adderley and his then-current musical associates including brother Nat Adderley, George Duke (using the alias "Dawilli Gonga"), Roy McCurdy, Airto Moreira, Carol Kaye and others. The sessions also made full use of a large string section and chorus, while the primary vocalists in Big Man sang and read their lines in character; the vocal cast included lead vocalist Joe Williams, Randy Crawford, and Robert Guillaume. Long out of print and never before issued on CD, Real Gone Music's reissue of Big Man boasts liner notes by Bill Kopp with quotes from Robert Guillaume, and the full libretto, with remastering by Joe Tarantino. The final artistic statement from a jazz giant!

Tracks:
1.1 Overture
1.2 Anybody Need a Big Man
1.3 Who Bend the Rainbow
1.4 Forty More Miles to Go/Rouster s Chant
1.5 Ten Mile of Mountain/Recitative: Who Up in Heaven
1.6 Dialogue (Carolina)
1.7 Gonna Give Lovin a Try
1.8 The Broomstick Song
1.9 Next Year in Jerusalem
1.10 Dialogue (Carolina, John Henry)
1.11 Stayin Place (Intro)
1.12 Stayin Place
1.13 Dialogue (Carolina)
1.14 A New Star Risin
1.15 The Steamdrill Race (Intro)
1.16 Anybody Need a Big Man
1.17 Grind Your Own Coffee
1.18 Anybody Need a Big Man/Dialogue (Deputy)
1.19 Hundred An One Year/M Ria
1.20 River
1.21 A New Star Risin
1.22 Dialogue (Carolina ; Jassawa)
1.23 Hundred An One Year/M Ria
1.24 Recitative: Born Black
1.25 Dialogue (Jassawa)
1.26 Poundin
1.27 Dialogue (John Henry ; Bull Maree)
1.28 The Streamdrill Race
1.29 We Saved/Dialogue (Carolina)
1.30 Jesus Where You Now?
1.31 If I Was Jehovah
1.32 On His Bones (Finale)

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