Cannonball Adderley

Cannonball Adderley

Infobox musical artist
Name = Cannonball Adderley


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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Julian Edwin Adderley
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Born = birth date|1928|9|15|mf=y
Tampa, Florida
Died = death date and age|1975|8|8|1928|9|15|mf=y
Gary, Indiana
Origin = United States
Instrument = Alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
Genre = Jazz, Soul jazz
Occupation = Teacher, musician
Years_active = 1955–1975
Label = Blue Note, Fantasy, Capitol, Prestige, Riverside
Associated_acts = Nat Adderley
Miles Davis
George Duke
Yusef Lateef
Sam Jones
Joe Zawinul
Louis Hayes
Bobby Timmons
Bill Evans
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Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15 1928August 8 1975), was a jazz alto saxophonist of the small combo era of the 1950s and 1960s. Originally from Tampa, Florida, he moved to New York in the mid 1950's.

The nickname "Cannonball" was a childhood nickname for the portly saxophonist, a corruption of "cannibal". 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.

Educator and saxophonist

His educational career was long established prior to teaching applied instrumental music classes at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Cannonball was a local legend in Florida until he moved to New York City in 1955.

He joined the Miles Davis sextet in 1957, around the time that John Coltrane left the group to join Thelonious Monk's band. (Coltrane would return to Davis's group in 1958). Adderley played on the 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." This period also overlapped with pianist Bill Evans's time with the sextet, an association that led to recording "Portrait of Cannonball" and "Know What I Mean?".

Band leader

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 new quintet (which later became the "Cannonball Adderley Sextet"), and Cannonball's other combos and groups, included such noted musicians as:
*pianists Bobby Timmons, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul (later of Weather Report), Hal Galper, Michael Wolff and George Duke
*bassists Sam Jones, Walter Booker and Victor Gaskin
*drummers Louis Hayes and Roy McCurdy
*saxophonists Charles Lloyd and Yusef Lateef.

The sextet was noteworthy towards the end of the 1960s for achieving crossover success with pop audiences, but doing it without making artistic concessions.

Later life

By the end of 1960s, Adderley's playing began to reflect the influence of the electric jazz avant-garde, and Miles Davis' experiments on the album "Bitches Brew". On his albums from this period, such as "The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free" (1970), he began doubling on soprano saxophone, showing the influence of John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter. In that same year, his quintet appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival in California, and a brief scene of that performance was featured in the 1971 psychological thriller "Play Misty for Me", starring Clint Eastwood. In 1975 he also appeared (in an acting role alongside Jose Feliciano and David Carradine) in the episode "Battle Hymn" in the third season of the TV series "Kung Fu". [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011645/ Julian "Cannonball" Adderley at IMDB] ]

Adderley died of a stroke in 1975. He was buried in the Southside Cemetery, Tallahassee, Florida. Later that year he was inducted into the "Down Beat" Jazz Hall of Fame. Joe Zawinul's composition "Cannon Ball" (recorded on Weather Report's album "Black Market") is a tribute to his former leader.

Songs made famous by Adderley and his bands include "This Here" (written by Bobby Timmons), "The Jive Samba," "Work Song" (written by Nat Adderley), "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (written by Joe Zawinul) and "Walk Tall" (written by Zawinul, Marrow and Rein). A cover version of Pops Staples' "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)?" also entered the charts.

Adderley was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America Incorporated (Xi Omega, Frostburg State University, '70), the largest and oldest secret society in music and Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest existing intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans (made Beta Nu chapter, Florida A&M University). [ [http://www.rso.cornell.edu/alpha/prominent/prominent.html List of prominent members at Cornell University website.] ]

Discography

;As a leader
* "Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings" (1955)
* "Jump For Joy" (1957)
* "Portrait of Cannonball" (1958)
* "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
* "The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco" (1959)
* "Cannonball and Coltrane" (1959)
* "Blue Spring" (1959) - with Kenny Dorham
* "At the Lighthouse" (1960)
* "Them Dirty Blues" (1960)
* "What Is This Thing Called Soul?" (1960)
* "Sweet and Lovely" (1960/1961)
* "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)
* "Dizzy's Business" (1962)
* "Jazz Workshop Revisited" (1963)
* "Nippon Soul" (1963)
* "Fiddler on the Roof" (1964)
* "Domination" (1965) - Orchestrated and arranged by Oliver Nelson
* "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'" (1966)
* "Cannonball in Japan (1966)
* "Why Am I Treated So Bad!" (1967)
* "74 Miles Away" (1967)
* "Radio Nights" (1967)
* "Accent On Africa" (1968)
* "Country Preacher" (1969)
* "The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free" (1970)
* "The Black Messiah (Live)" (1972)
* "Inside Straight" (1973)
* "Pyramid" (1974)
* "Love, Sex, And The Zodiac" (1974)
* "Phenix" (1975)
* "Big Man" (1975) (Musical with Joe Williams and Randy Crawford)

;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)

;as a producer
* "Wide Open Spaces" (1960) - David Newman
* "A Portrait of Thelonious" (1961) - Bud Powell
* "Don Byas & Bud Powell - Tribute To Cannonball" (1961)

Awards

*1967 Grammy Award, Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist with Small Group for "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'" by Cannonball Adderley Quintet

References

External links

* [http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/ The Cannonball Adderley Rendez-vous]
* [http://www.jazzdisco.org/adderley/ Cannonball Adderley Discography at Jazzdisco.org]
* [http://destinyland.mondoglobo.net/2006/08/23/the-war-of-the-singing-rodents/ Podcast with clip of Cannonball Adderley's duet with the Nutty Squirrels]
* [http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/10/29/haunted-by-chipmunk-ghosts/ History with link to mp3 of Nutty Squirrels/Cannonball Adderley session]
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* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15404098 Cannonball Adderley at NPR Music]


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