Big Man: The Legend of John Henry
# Big Man: The Legend of John Henry

Big Man: The Legend of John Henry è il 32° album di Julian Cannonball Adderley, pubblicato dalla Milestone Records nel 1975.

## Tracce

### Lato A

* Overture – 2:17 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Anybody Need a Big Man – 3:49 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Who Bend the Rainbow – 3:42 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Forty More Miles to Go / Rouster's Chant – 1:17 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Ten Mile of Mountain / Recitative : Who Up in Heaven – 3:00 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)

Durata totale: 14:05

### Lato B

* Dialogue (Carolina) – 0:13
* Gonna Give Lovin' Try – 3:15 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* The Broomstick Song – 1:24 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Next Year in Jerusalem – 2:18 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Dialogue (Carolina, John Henry) – 0:27
* Stayin' Place (Intro) – 0:34 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Stayin' Place – 2:38 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Dialogue (Carolina) – 0:19
* A New Star Risin' – 2:02 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* The Steamdrill Race (Intro) – 0:50 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)

Durata totale: 14:00

### Lato C

* Anybody Need a Big Man – 6:07 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Grind You Own Coffee – 3:10 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Anybody Need a Big Man / Dialogue (Deputy) – 0:47 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Hundred An' One Year / M'Ria – 1:29 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* River – 2:11 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* A New Star Risin' – 0:30 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Dialogue (Carolina & Jassawa) – 0:21

Durata totale: 14:35

### Lato D

* Hundred An' One Year / M'Ria – 1:15 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Recitative : Born Black – 2:12 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Dialogue (Jassawa) – 0:08
* Poundin' – 3:04 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Dialogue (John Henry & Bull Maree) – 0:38
* The Steamdrill Race – 1:32 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* We Saved / Dialogue (Carolina) – 0:26 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* Jesus Where You Now? – 2:03 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* If Was Jehovah – 2:36 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)
* On His Bones (Finale) – 1:23 (Diane Lampert, Peter Farrow, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley)

Durata totale: 15:17

## Musicisti

### Cannonball Adderley Orchestra

* Julian Cannonball Adderley - sassofono alto
* Bill Green - sassofono
* Jackie Kelso - sassofono
* Don Menza - sassofono
* Jay Migliori - sassofono
* Oscar Brashear - tromba
* Oscar DeRienzo - tromba
* Oliver Mitchell - tromba
* George Bohanon - trombone
* Dick Hyde - trombone
* Jimmy Jones - pianoforte
* Dawilli Gonga (pseudonimo di George Duke) - tastiere
* Billy Fender - chitarra
* Don Peake - chitarra
* Walter Booker - contrabbasso
* Carol Kaye - basso elettrico
* Roy McCurdy - batteria
* King Errisson - percussioni
* Airto Moreira - percussioni
* Randy Crawford - voce
* Joe Williams - voce
* David Axelrod (probabile presenza) - arrangiamenti, conduttore musicale
* Jack Shulman - archi - concertmaster
* Bernard Kundell - strings
* William Henderson - strings
* Jerome Reisler - strings
* Henry Roth - strings
* Arthur H. Brown - strings
* Mary Newkirk - strings
* Pamela Goldsmith - strings
* Gareth Nuttycombe - strings
* Alexander Neiman - strings
* William Hymanson - strings
* Alfred Lustgarten - strings
* Kathleen Lustgarten - strings
* Edgar Lustgarten - strings
* Mortonette Jenkins - cori
* Gwendolyn Owens - cori
* Jessie Richardson - cori
* Stephanie Spruill - cori
* Vernetta Royster - cori
* Donald Dandridge - cori
* Sherwood Sledge - cori
* Fleming Williams - cori
* Charles May - cori
* Josef Powell - cori
* Michael Gray - cori
* Billie Barnum - cori
