Cannonball Adderley
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 Cannonball (left) and Nat Adderley in 1966 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Julian Edwin Adderley |
| Born | (1928-09-15)September 15, 1928 Tampa, Florida, U.S. |
| Died | August 8, 1975(1975-08-08) (aged 46) Gary, Indiana, U.S. |
| Genres | Hard bop, soul jazz, modal jazz, jazz rock[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Teacher, saxophonist |
| Instruments | Alto saxophone, soprano saxophone |
| Years active | 1955–1975 |
| Labels | 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 |
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.[2][3][4]
Adderley is remembered for his 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy",[5] a crossover hit on the pop charts (it was also covered by The Buckinghams). He worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, on his own 1958 Somethin' Else album, and on the seminal Davis records Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959). He was the older brother of jazz trumpeter Nat Adderley, a longtime member of his band.[6]
Contents
1 Early life and career
2 Band leader
3 Later life
4 Legacy
5 Discography
6 References
7 External links
Early life and career
Originally from Tampa, Florida, Adderley moved to New York in 1955.[6][7] His nickname derived from "cannibal," a title imposed on him by high school colleagues as a tribute to his voracious appetite.[8]
Cannonball moved to Tallahassee, when his parents obtained teaching positions at Florida A&M University.[9] Both Cannonball and brother Nat played with Ray Charles when Charles lived in Tallahassee during the early 1940s.[10] Adderley moved to Broward County, Florida, in 1948 after finishing his music studies at Florida A&M and became the band director at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, a position which he held until 1950.[7] Cannonball was a local legend in Southeast Florida until he moved to New York City in 1955.
One of his known addresses in New York was in the neighborhood of Corona, Queens.[6][11] He left Florida originally to seek graduate studies at New York conservatories, but one night in 1955 he brought his saxophone with him to the Café Bohemia. Asked to sit in with Oscar Pettiford in place of his band's regular saxophonist, who was late for the gig, the "buzz" on the New York jazz scene after Adderley's performance announced him as the heir to the mantle of Charlie Parker.[7]
Adderley formed his own group with his brother Nat after signing onto the Savoy jazz label in 1957. He was noticed by Miles Davis, and it was because of his blues-rooted alto saxophone that Davis asked him to play with his group.[6] He joined the Davis band in October 1957, three months prior to the return of John Coltrane to the group. Some of Davis's finest trumpet work can be found on Adderley's first solo album Somethin' Else (also featuring Art Blakey and Hank Jones), which was recorded shortly after the two giants met. Adderley then played on the seminal Davis records Milestones and Kind of Blue. This period also overlapped with pianist Bill Evans' time with the sextet, an association that led to recording Portrait of Cannonball and Know What I Mean?.[6]
His interest as an educator carried over to his recordings. In 1961, Cannonball narrated The Child's Introduction to Jazz, released on Riverside Records.[6]
Band leader
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet featured Cannonball on alto sax and his brother Nat Adderley on cornet. Cannonball's first quintet was not very successful;[12] however, after leaving Davis' group, he formed another group again with his brother.
The new quintet, which later became the Cannonball Adderley Sextet, and Cannonball's other combos and groups, included such noted musicians as saxophonists Charles Lloyd and Yusef Lateef, pianists Bobby Timmons, Barry Harris, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul, Hal Galper, Michael Wolff, and George Duke, bassists Ray Brown, Sam Jones, Walter Booker, and Victor Gaskin, and drummers Louis Hayes and Roy McCurdy.
Later life
Nat and Cannonball Adderley in Amsterdam, 1961
By the end of the 1960s, Adderley's playing began to reflect the influence of the electric jazz. From this period, he released albums such as Accent on Africa (1968) and The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (1970). 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 José Feliciano and David Carradine in the episode "Battle Hymn" in the third season of the TV series Kung Fu.[13]
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. His instrumental "Sack o' Woe" was arranged by Herbie Mann on their debut album.
He had a cerebral hemorrhage and four weeks later, on August 8, 1975, he died at St. Mary Mercy Medical Center in Gary, Indiana. He was 46 years old.[2] He was buried in the Southside Cemetery, Tallahassee.[14]
Legacy
Later that year he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.[6] Joe Zawinul's composition "Cannon Ball" on Black Market is a tribute to his former leader.[6]Pepper Adams and George Mraz dedicated the composition "Julian" on the 1975 Pepper Adams album of the same name days after Cannonball's death.[15]
Adderley was initiated as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity (Gamma Theta chapter, University of North Texas, '60, & Xi Omega chapter, Frostburg State University, '70) and Alpha Phi Alpha[16] (Beta Nu chapter, Florida A&M University).
His influence in hip hop is evident in songs such as "1nce Again" by A Tribe Called Quest,[17]She Said (The Pharcyde song) by the Pharcyde,[17] and "Long Run" by Fly Union[17] which was also featured in the popular NBA 2K14 video game.[18]
Discography
References
^ Ginell, Richard S. "Black Messiah – Cannonball Adderley : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved July 8, 2012..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ ab "Cannonball Adderley, Jazzman, Dead Gary Post-Tribune, Aug 10, 1975, p. E1". The New York Times. Associated Press. August 8, 1975. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
^ Randel, Don Michael (1996). "Adderley, Cannonball". The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-674-37299-9.
^ Richard Cook (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. Penguin Books. p. 3. ISBN 0-141-00646-3.
^ "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Cannonball Adderley - Song Info - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
^ abcdefgh Yanow, Scott. "Cannonball Adderley – Music Biography, Credits and Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
^ abc "The Cannonball Adderley Biography". Cannonball-adderley.com. 1928-09-15. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
^ Gilles Miton. "Cannonball Adderley". Cannonball-adderley.com. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
^ "Adderley, Nat (Nathaniel)". Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians. Jazz.com. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
^ Lydon, Michael, Ray Charles: Man and Music, Routledge (1996); updated edition, January 22, 2004,
ISBN 0-415-97043-1.
^ Berman, Eleanor. "The jazz of Queens encompasses music royalty", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 1, 2006. Accessed October 1, 2009. "When the trolley tour proceeds, Mr. Knight points out the nearby Dorie Miller Houses, a co-op apartment complex in Corona where Clark Terry and Cannonball and Nat Adderley lived and where saxophonist Jimmy Heath still resides."
^ Milkowski, Bill, "Junior Mance: Saved By A Cannonball", JazzTimes, January 16, 2012.
^ "Julian "Cannonball" Adderley". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
^ Stanton, Scott (1 September 2003). "The Tombstone Tourist: Musicians". Simon and Schuster. Retrieved 1 August 2018 – via Google Books.
^ "PepperAdams.com". PepperAdams.com. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
^ "Notable Alphas" (PDF). Alpha Phi Alpha. p. 11. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
^ abc "Cannonball Adderley Music Sampled by Others". WhoSampled. 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
^ "LeBron James and Spotify Drop "NBA 2K14" Playlist". Complex. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
External links
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- Cannonball Adderley Discography at Jazzdisco.org
Cannonball Adderley at AllMusic- Cannonball Adderley at NPR Music
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