The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free
# The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free

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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

* "Soul Virgo" (George Duke, Mike Deasy, Rick Holmes) - 1:46
* "Rumplestiltskin" (Joe Zawinul) - 5:11
* "Inquisition" (Nat Adderley) - 2:25
* "Devastatement" (Nat Adderley) - 2:55
* "Pra Dizer Adeus (To Say Goodbye)" (Edú Lobo, Torquato Neto, Lani Hall) - 2:49
* "The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free" (Nat Adderley Jr.) - 4:40
* "Sometime Ago" (Sergio Mihanovich) - 4:12
* "Exquisition" (Nat Adderley) - 4:15
* "Painted Desert" (Joe Zawinul) - 5:55
* "Directions" (Zawinul) - 1:35
* "Down in Black Bottom" (Nat Adderley) - 5:17
* "1-2-3-Go-O-O-O!" (Zawinul, McCurdy, Booker, Nat Adderley) - 4:41
* "Lonesome Stranger" (Nat Adderley) - 2:01
* "Get Up Off Your Knees" - 4:59
* "Wild-Cat Pee" - 3:22
* "Alto Sex" - 2:10
* "Bridges" (Milton Nascimento, Fernando Brant, Gene Lees) - 4:21
* "Out and In" - 5:48
* "Together" (Nat Adderley Jr.) - 6:31
* "The Scene" (Nat Adderley, Zawinul) - 0:36

   * Recorded September 19, 1970 at the Monterey Jazz Festival (tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,13,17,19,20)

   * Recorded October 5, 1970 at Capitol Studios (tracks 8,9,10,11,18)

   * Recorded October 6, 1970 at Capitol Studios (tracks 12,14,15,16)

## Personnel

* Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, vocals
* Nat Adderley - cornet, vocals
* Joe Zawinul - piano, electric piano, ring modulator
* Walter Booker - bass
* Roy McCurdy - drums
* Nat Adderley Jr. - piano, electric piano, guitar, vocals
* Bob West - bass
