{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Radio Nights | type = live | artist = the [[Cannonball Adderley]] Quartet, Quintet and Sextet | cover = Radio Nights cover.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1991}} | recorded = December 1967, January 1968 | venue = The [[Half Note Club]], New York City | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = | label = Night | producer = [[Joel Dorn]] | prev_title = [[Cannonball in Japan]] | prev_year = 1966 | next_title = [[74 Miles Away]] | next_year = 1967 }} '''''Radio Nights''''' is an album released in 1991 featuring previously unreleased live radio broadcasts by the [[Cannonball Adderley]] Quartet, Quintet and Sextet from New York City's [[Half Note Club]] jazz club. They were recorded by Alan Grant and broadcast live on radio in the last week of 1967 and the first week of 1968. The montage of Adderley's monologues are taken from a recording made at the [[Keystone Korner]] jazz club, San Francisco. At the time of the recordings, Adderley was under contract to Capitol.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |last=Yanow |first=Scott |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/radio-nights-mw0000691846 |title= Cannonball Adderley: Radio Nights |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=November 19, 2020}}</ref> | rev2 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin9" /> }} ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]'' described it as "a well-travelled private recording from the Half Note, entertaining but slightly mechanical".<ref name="Penguin9">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |author-link=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=11}}</ref> The [[AllMusic]] reviewer suggested that the album was better than Adderley's official Capitol releases from the same time.<ref name="AM" />
== Track listing ==
#"The Little Boy With The Sad Eyes" (Nat Adderley) #"Midnight Mood" (Josef Zawinul, Ben Raleigh) #"[[Stars Fell On Alabama]]" ([[Frank Perkins (composer)|Frank Perkins]], [[Mitchell Parish]]) 6:32 #"[[Fiddler On The Roof]]" ([[Jerry Bock]], [[Sheldon Harnick]]) #"Work Song" (Nat Adderley) #"The Song My Lady Sings" (Charles Lloyd) #"Unit Seven" (Sam Jones) #Cannonball Monologues on: i. "Oh Babe" (Nat Adderley, Julian Adderley)<br>ii. "Country Preacher" (Joe Zawinul)
==Personnel== "Stars Fell On Alabama" *[[Julian "Cannonball" Adderley]] - alto saxophone *[[Joe Zawinul]] - piano *[[Samuel Jones (jazz musician)|Sam Jones]] - bass *[[Roy McCurdy]] - drums
"The Little Boy With The Sad Eyes", "Midnight Mood", "Fiddler On The Roof" *[[Julian "Cannonball" Adderley]] - alto saxophone *[[Nat Adderley]] - cornet *[[Joe Zawinul]] - piano *[[Samuel Jones (jazz musician)|Sam Jones]] - bass *[[Roy McCurdy]] - drums
"Work Song", "The Song My Lady Sings", "Unit Seven" *[[Julian "Cannonball" Adderley]] - alto saxophone *[[Nat Adderley]] - cornet *[[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]] - tenor saxophone *[[Joe Zawinul]] - keyboards *[[Samuel Jones (jazz musician)|Sam Jones]] - bass *[[Louis Hayes]] - drums
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Cannonball Adderley}}{{Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)}} {{Authority control}}
[[Category:1991 live albums]] [[Category:Cannonball Adderley live albums]] [[Category:Albums produced by Joel Dorn]]