Cannonball Adderley, 1960

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 - August 8, 1975), originally from Tampa, Florida, was a jazz alto saxophonist of the small combo era of the 1950s and 1960s. Image File history File links Cannonballadderley3. ... Image File history File links Cannonballadderley3. ... September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Nickname: Cigar City, The Big Guava, T-Town Location in Hillsborough County and the state of Florida. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory and marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... A saxophonist is a musician who plays the saxophone. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...

Cannonball was a local legend in Florida until he moved to New York in 1955. He joined the Miles Davis sextet in 1957, around the time that John Coltrane left the band to join Thelonious Monk's group, which Coltrane would return from in 1958. Adderley played on the seminal Davis records, Milestones and Kind of Blue. Davis had this to say of Adderley's style, "He had a certain spirit. You couldn't put your finger on it, but it was there in his playing every night". Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century. ... John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), often known as Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ... Thelonious Monk, as featured on the cover of his 1956 album, Brilliant Corners (1958 reissue cover shown) Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. ... Milestones is an album recorded in February and March 1958 by Miles Davis. ... Kind of Blue is a jazz album by musician Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959. ...

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet featured Cannonball on alto sax and his brother Nat Adderley on cornet. Adderley's first quintet was not very successful. However, after leaving Davis' group, he reformed another, again with his brother, which enjoyed more success. The Quintet (which later became the Sextet) and Cannonball's other combos and groups included such noted musicians as pianists Bobby Timmons, Victor Feldman and Joe Zawinul (later of Weather Report), bassist Sam Jones, drummer Louis Hayes and saxophonists Charles Lloyd and Yusef Lateef. The group was noteworthy towards the end of the 1960's for achieving crossover success with pop audiences, without making artistic concessions. Nathaniel Adderley (November 25, 1931 - January 2, 2000) was an American jazz cornetist who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. ... Robert Henry Bobby Timmons (Born: December 19, 1935 in Philadelphia _ Died: March 1, 1974 in New York City) was an American jazz pianist and composer. ... Victor Feldman (April 7, 1934 - May 12, 1987) was a British jazz musician. ... Josef Erich Zawinul (born July 7, 1932 in Vienna, Austria) is a jazz keyboardist and composer. ... Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and 1980s. ... Sam, Samantha or Samuel Jones can refer to a number of different people. ... Born,May 31, 1937 in Detroit, MI A superior hard bop drummer who has led many groups of his own, Louis Hayes led a band in Detroit as a teenager and was with Yusef Lateef during 1955-1956. ... Charles Lloyd on stage with Billy Higgins Charles Lloyd (March 15, 1938-) is an American jazz musician. ... Album cover of Eastern Sounds Dr. Yusef Lateef (born October 9, 1920) is an American jazz musician. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...

The nickname "Cannonball" was a butchered version of "cannibal", a childhood nickname for the portly saxophonist. An articulate speaker with an easy manner, Cannonball educated, amused, and informed his audiences in clubs and on television about the art and moods of jazz (he was a music teacher before beginning his jazz career). His professional career was long established prior to teaching applied instrumental music classes at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. By the end of 1960s, Adderley's playing began to reflect the influence of the electric jazz avant-garde, and Miles Davis' experiments on Bitches Brew. On his albums from this period, such as The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free he began doubling on soprano saxophone, showing the influence of John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter. Joe Zawinul left his band in the early seventies to be replaced by George Duke. Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of the same species, e. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century. ... B***hes Brew is an album recorded by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in 1969. ... The soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument. ... John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), often known as Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ... Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter in the 1960s quintet Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist. ... Josef Erich Zawinul (born July 7, 1932 in Vienna, Austria) is a jazz keyboardist and composer. ... George Duke (born 12 January 1946) is a piano and synthesizer pioneer. ...

Adderley died of a stroke in 1975. He was buried in the Southside Cemetery, Tallahassee, Florida. Joe Zawinul's composition "Cannon Ball" (recorded on Weather Report's album Black Market) is a tribute to his former employer. For other uses, see Stroke (disambiguation). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Location Location in Leon County and the state of Florida. ...

Songs made famous by Adderley and his bands include 'This Here' (written by Bobby Timmons), 'The Jive Samba', 'Work Song' (written by Nat Adderley) and 'Mercy, Mercy, Mercy' (written by Joe Zawinul).

Adderley was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans (made Beta Nu chapter, Florida A&M University). [1] Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) is an intercollegiate service fraternity generally recognized as the first established by African Americans. ... Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... The terms fraternity and sorority (from the Latin words frater and soror, meaning brother and sister respectively) may be used to describe any number of social and charitable organizations, for example the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Rotary International, or the Shriners. ... Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, commonly known as Florida A&M or FAMU (Pronounced fam-you), is a historically black university located in Tallahassee, Florida and is one of eleven institutions in Floridas State University System. ...

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Selected discography

Cover artwork for Adderley's Somethin' Else, probably Adderley's best known album.

As a leader

• Somethin' Else (1958) - with Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones, Art Blakey
• Things Are Getting Better (1958)
• Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (1959) - with John Coltrane
• Quintet in San Francisco (1959)
• Cannonball and Coltrane (1959)
• At the Lighthouse (1960)
• Them Dirty Blues (1960)
• Know What I Mean? (1961) - with Bill Evans
• African Waltz (1961)
• The Quintet Plus (1961)
• Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (1961)
• In New York (1962)
• Cannonball's Bossa Nova (1962)
• Jazz Workshop Revisited (1963)
• Nippon Soul (1963)
• Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club' (1966)
• Why Am I Treated So Bad! (1967)
• 74 Miles Away (1967)
• Radio Nights (1967)
• Accent On Africa (1968)
• The Country Preacher (1969)
• The Black Messiah (Live) (1972)
• Inside Straight (1973)
• Pyramid (1974)
• Phenix (1975)

with Miles Davis

• Milestones (1958)
• Miles & Monk at Newport (1958) (Monk performance is separate from Davis and Adderley performance)
• Jazz at the Plaza (1958)
• Porgy and Bess (1958)
• Kind of Blue (1959)

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External links

• The Cannonball Adderley Rendez-vous
• Podcast with clip of Cannonball Adderley's duet with the Nutty Squirrels