by Richard S. Ginell Jazz was undergoing a sea change in 1970 thanks to Miles Davis' electronic and structural breakthroughs, and his former sideman Cannonball Adderley was right in the thick of things (the two leaders shared musicians and traded influences during this period). Like Miles, the Adderleys expanded their canvas to double-LPs -- this live album being the first of a series in the double-pocket format -- and each side would be organized into nearly continuous medleys. Not only that, Cannonball still had Joe Zawinul on board, who greatly altered the texture of Cannonball's music with his floating electric piano and science-fiction interludes with a ring modulator (this would be his last album with the Quintet). Still, 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. Along the way, we hear vocals from both Adderleys (including an exceedingly rare yet oddly charming one from Cannon on Milton Nascimento's challenging "Bridges"), a stunningly touching Cannonball testament on soprano in "Some Time Ago" and alto solos that definitely show that Cannonball had absorbed the Coltrane vocabulary. One can do without guest Nat Adderley, Jr.'s cliched anti-Nixon sloganeering on the title tune (granted, he was only 15 years old) but again, his presence testifies to the close-knit, liberal family atmosphere that Cannonball encouraged. This is a fascinating contemporary snapshot of the Quintet, whose later recordings are too casually dismissed these days.