Cannonball Takes Charge

Cannonball Takes Charge
Studio album by Cannonball Adderley
Released	August 1959
Recorded	April 23, 27 & May 12, 1959
Studio	Reeves Sound (New York City)
Genre	Jazz, hard bop
Label	Riverside
Producer	Orrin Keepnews
Cannonball Adderley chronology
Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (1959) Cannonball Takes Charge (1959) The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (1959)

Cannonball Takes Charge is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb with Percy and Albert Heath replacing Chambers and Cobb on two selections.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz

The Penguin Guide to Jazz said that "Cannonball Takes Charge is perhaps only ordinary." The AllMusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 4 stars and states: "Cannonball Adderley is in top form on this 1959 release."

Track listing

All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated

1. "If This Isn't Love" (Burton Lane, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 5:32
2. "I Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 5:34
3. "Serenata" (Leroy Anderson) – 4:16
4. "I've Told Ev'ry Little Star" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:39
5. "Barefoot Sunday Blues" – 7:03
6. "Poor Butterfly" (Raymond Hubbell, John Golden) – 5:10
7. "I Remember You" (Victor Schertzinger, Johnny Mercer) – 6:55
8. "Barefoot Sunday Blues" [alternative take] – 7:48 Bonus track on CD
9. "I Remember You" [alternative take] (Schertzinger, Mercer) – 6:52 Bonus track on CD

• Recorded at Reeves Sound Studio in New York City on April 23 (track 4), April 27 (tracks 1–3) and May 12 (tracks 5–9), 1959

Personnel

• Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone
• Wynton Kelly - piano
• Paul Chambers - bass (tracks 1–4)
• Jimmy Cobb - drums (tracks 1–4)
• Percy Heath - bass (tracks 5–9)
• Albert "Tootie" Heath - drums (tracks 5–9)