Claim: Cannonball in Japan, a live recording by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, is recorded in Tokyo on August 1966 and Adderley is backed by his best band.
Evidence: Cannonball in Japan is a live recording by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Sankei Hall in Tokyo which was first released on the Japanese Capitol label in 1966 before being more widely released on CD in 1990. Recorded in August 1966 in Tokyo, In Japan features the alto saxophonist at the peak of his career. Backed by his best band -- cornet player Nat Adderley, electric pianist Joe Zawinul, bassist Victor Gaskin, and drummer Roy McCurdy -- Adderley runs through a fairly standard set but does so in anything but a workmanlike way".