I just don't see Cannon jumping tracks to play the funky music of the late sixties and seventies. . . . It seems to me to be just a continuation of the music he had always been playing in many ways. To me it seemed he'd always sort of been dipping toes nto the many differnt pools of music that his black audience would soak in, and he continued to do that in the Capitol period. Seems to me as Jim says above the variety was there seeping in from the beginning of the leader dates and the tendency just flowered.
On my desert island I'd like to have say . . .as many of the Savoy sides as I could squeeze in, especially perhaps the Kenny Clarke led ones. . .. Cannonball's Sharp Shooters. . . Them Dirty Blues. . . Live in New York. . . Live at the Club . . .Plays Zawinul (really, this is a great compilation). . .Money in the Pocket (ditto). . . Black Messiah. . . . maybe even Lovers. . .. Man it's hard to limit myself, I just rotate all my Cannonball quite often. He's always both stimulating and soothing for me.