Great Love Themes

Great Love Themes is an album recorded in April 1966 by jazz saxophonist Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley. It was released on the Capitol label featuring performances of ballads ― mostly Broadway show tunes ― by Cannonball Adderley with Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Lewis, Roy McCurdy, and with string arrangements by Ray Ellis.^[3][4] AllMusic awarded the album 1 star.^[5] The album was produced by Tom Morgan, rather than Adderley's usual producer, David Axelrod. According to Adderley's biographer, Cary Ginell, "Although Cannonball loved to play show tunes, the lush, watered-down arrangements did not excite listeners, who had long since wearied of the jazz-artist-with-strings formula. Axelrod recalled that Cannonball hated the album and convinced Capitol to let him go back to working with Axelrod from then on."^[6]

1. "Somewhere" (Leonard Bernstein) – 2:50
2. "The Song Is You" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:14
3. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer) – 3:27
4. "I Concentrate on You" (Cole Porter) – 3:40
5. "This Can´t Be Love" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:37
6. "Stella By Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 3:04
7. "Morning of the Carnival (Manhã de Carnaval)" (Luis Bonfá, Antônio Maria) – 3:29
8. "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward C. Redding) – 4:25
9. "So In Love" (Porter) – 3:28

• Recorded in New York City, NY, on April 6 (tracks 1, 3 & 6-8) and April 7 (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 9), 1966

• Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
• Nat Adderley – cornet
• Joe Zawinul – piano
• Herbie Lewis – bass
• Roy McCurdy – drums
• Unidentified strings
• Ray Ellis – conductor, arranger