Cannonball Adderley - The Price You Got to Pay to be Free (1970) Vinyl LP • Jazz

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Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Double LP. Gate-fold cover has a few creases near edges, scuffing, some discoloration spots (front/back/inner-gate); surface impressions on back, large air pocket under paper on left inner-gate. Inner-sleeves are original (generic white); two seams partially split. Spine is easy-to-read with mild-wear. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Openings are crisp with signs of use and divots. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Soul Virgo
2. Rumplestiltskin
3. Inquisition
4. Devastatement
5. Pra Dizer Adeus (To Say Goodbye)
6. The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free
7. Some Time Ago
8. Exquisition
9. Painted Desert
10. Directions
11. Down In Black Bottom
12. 1-2-3-Go-O-O-O!
13. Lonesome Stranger
14. Get Up Off Your Knees
15. Wild-Cat Pee
16. Alto Sex
17. Bridges
18. Out And In
19. Together
20. The Scene

About The Record:

The Price You Got to Pay to be Free by Cannonball Adderley features the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in a lively double live album blending soul jazz, Brazilian rhythms, and cautious avant-garde touches with a strong populist spirit that captures the band at a creative crossroads. A unique highlight is the inclusion of 15-year-old Nat Adderley Jr., Cannonball's nephew, who contributes vocals, a social rap with curse words, and guitar on the gospel-influenced protest title track The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free while also appearing on other cuts. Historically significant for its Afrocentric emphasis and calls for social justice amid the era's turbulence, part of the material was recorded at the 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival with a segment later appearing in Clint Eastwood's film Play Misty for Me. Fan favorites and standout tracks include Rumplestiltskin, Pra Dizer Adeus, Bridges, and Down in Black Bottom, showcasing the group's energetic grooves and influences from Miles Davis' electric period and early fusion. The album itself reached No. 169 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and No. 5 on the Billboard Jazz Album chart.