The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free


The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free is an album by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet recorded, in part, at the 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival. A portion of the performance is memorialized in the 1971 Clint Eastwood movie Play Misty For Me. Additional "live in-studio" tracks were recorded the following month at the Capitol Records Tower, in Hollywood, to stretch the Monterey material into a double album. The album features Adderley with brother Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy and guest appearances by Bob West and Cannon's 15-year-old nephew Nat Adderley, Jr. who wrote and performed the gospel-influenced protest title song.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3½ stars and states: "Cannonball was a populist at heart, and his generosity of spirit shines through this often deliciously diverse album, which ranges wildly from flat-out soul to Brazilian music to a cautious toedip into the avant-garde.... This is a fascinating contemporary snapshot of the Quintet, whose later recordings are too casually dismissed these days."

Track listing

All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated
  1. "Soul Virgo" - 1:46
  2. "Rumplestiltskin" - 5:11
  3. "Inquisition" - 2:25
  4. "Devastatement" - 2:55
  5. "Pra Dizer Adeus " - 2:49
  6. "The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free" - 4:40
  7. "Sometime Ago" - 4:12
  8. "Exquisition" - 4:15
  9. "Painted Desert" - 5:55
  10. "Directions" - 1:35
  11. "Down in Black Bottom" - 5:17
  12. "1-2-3-Go-O-O-O!" - 4:41
  13. "Lonesome Stranger" - 2:01
  14. "Get Up Off Your Knees" - 4:59
  15. "Wild-Cat Pee" - 3:22
  16. "Alto Sex" - 2:10
  17. "Bridges" - 4:21
  18. "Out and In" - 5:48
  19. "Together" - 6:31
  20. "The Scene" - 0:36

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