You, Baby is an album by jazz cornetist Nat Adderley released on the CTI label featuring performances by Adderley with Jerome Richardson, Joe Zawinul, Ron Carter, and Grady Tate and an orchestra arranged and conducted by Bill Fischer.CTI discography accessed February 19, 2010
Reception The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "A lovely, intensely musical album, well worth seeking out".Ginell, R. S. [ Allmusic Review] accessed February 19, 2010
Track listing All compositions by Nat Adderley except as indicated "You Baby" (Ivy Hunter, Jack Goga, Jeffrey Bowen) - 2:46 "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (Jim Webb) - 3:20 "Electric Eel" - 4:58 "Early Chanson" [aka "Joe's Blues #1"] (Joe Zawinul) - 2:25 "Denise" (Wilson J. Turbinton, Earl J. Turbinton) - 3:59 "Early Minor" [aka "Joe's Untitled #2"] (Zawinul) - 3:45 "My Son" (Caiphus Semenya) - 4:28 "New Orleans" - 4:20 "Hang On In" (Eric Knight) - 3:31 "Halftime" (Nat Adderley, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley) - 2:39 Recorded at Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 26, 1968 (tracks 4 & 7), March 27, 1968 (tracks 3, 6 & 9), March 28, 1968 (tracks 2, 5, 8 & 10) and April 4, 1968 (track 1)
Personnel Musicians Nat Adderley – cornet Jerome Richardson - soprano saxophone, flute Harvey Estrin, Romeo Penque, Joe Soldo - flute George Marge - flute, oboe Joe Zawinul - electric piano Ron Carter - bass Grady Tate - drums Al Brown, Selwart Clarke, Bernard Zaslav - viola Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Alan Shulman - cello Bill Fischer - arranger, conductor
Production Creed Taylor – producer Rudy Van Gelder – engineer Sam Antupit – design Pete Turner - photography
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