Jump for Joy is the final album by jazz

Jazz

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 saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the EmArcy

EmArcy Records

EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company....

 label and features Adderley with an orchestra arranged by Bill Russo. The Allmusic review by Stewart Mason states "Something of a companion album to the earlier Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings

Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings

Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings is the second album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley to be released on the EmArcy label and features Adderley with and orchestra directed by Richard Hayman. The Allmusic review by Stewart Mason states "Adderley himself plays beautifully, showing off his...

, Jump for Joy sounds like it could be outtakes from the same sessions in terms of its orchestral-quality arrangements, but this is very much its own album. Jump for Joy is Adderley's reinterpretation, circa 1958, of a Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...

 stage musical from 1941... Hearing Adderley's often thrilling, always well-constructed alto sax improvisations over tunes like the standard "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" is reason enough for the album to exist, and although Russo's orchestral flourishes occasionally threaten to overwhelm the soloist (especially on the closing "The Tune of the Hickory Stick"), they're always at the very least charming examples of '50s jazz-pop arrangements".

Track listing

1. "Two Left Feet" (Hal Borne
   Hal Borne
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   , Paul Francis Webster
   Paul Francis Webster
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   ) - 3:12
2. "Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)
   Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)
   "Just Squeeze Me " is a 1941 popular song composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Lee Gaines. The song has been recorded numerous times by a number of artists in the years since, having become a jazz standard....
   
   " (Duke Ellington
   Duke Ellington
   Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
   
   , Lee Gaines) - 3:15
3. "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
   I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
   "I Got It Bad " is a pop and jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster published in 1941...
   
   " (Ellington, Webster) - 2:35
4. "Nothin'" (Borne, Ray Golden, Sid Kuller
   Sid Kuller
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   ) - 4:32
5. "Jump for Joy" (Ellington, Kuller, Webster) - 3:18
6. "Bli-Blip" (Ellington, Kuller) - 3:48
7. "Chocolate Shake" (Ellington, Webster) - 2:40
8. "If Life Were All Peaches and Cream" (Borne, Webster) - 5:12
9. "Brown-Skin Gal (In the Calico Gown)" (Ellington, Webster) - 2:47
10. "The Tune of the Hickory Stick" (Borne, Webster) - 3:24
    • Recorded in New York City on August 20 (tracks 3-5 & 9) & August 21 (tracks 1-2, 6-8 & 10), 1958

Personnel

• Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone
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• Emmett Berry
  Emmett Berry
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   - trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Leo Kruczek, Gene Orloff - violin
  Violin
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• Dave Schwartz - viola
  Viola
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• George Ricci - cello
  Cello
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• Bill Evans
  Bill Evans
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   - piano
  Piano
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• Barry Galbraith
  Barry Galbraith
  Joseph Barry Galbraith was an American jazz guitarist.Galbraith moved to New York City from Vermont early in the 1940s and found work playing with Babe Russin, Art Tatum, Red Norvo, Hal McIntyre, and Teddy Powell...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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• Milt Hinton
  Milt Hinton
  Milton John "Milt" Hinton , "the dean of jazz bass players," was an American jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge".-Biography:...
  
   - bass
  Double bass
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• Jimmy Cobb
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   - drums
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• Bill Russo - arranger