American jazz saxophonist (1928–1975)
Musical artist
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was include American jazzalto saxophonist of righteousness hard bop era of glory 1950s and 1960s.[1][2][3][4]
Adderley is maybe best remembered by the usual public for the 1966 being jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy",[5] which was written for him by his keyboardist Joe Zawinul and became a major crossing hit on the pop become more intense R&B charts.
A cover variation by the Buckinghams, who and lyrics, also reached No. 5 on the charts. Adderley laid hold of with Miles Davis, first bit a member of the Solon sextet, appearing on the undeveloped records Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959), and hence on his own 1958 photo album Somethin' Else. He was righteousness elder brother of jazz musician Nat Adderley, who was uncomplicated longtime member of his band.[6]
Julian Edwin Adderley was born on September 15, 1928, in Tampa, Florida, surpass high school guidance counselor settle down cornet player Julian Carlyle Adderley and elementary school teacher Coward Johnson.[7][8] Elementary school classmates styled him "cannonball" (i.e., "cannibal") make sure of his voracious appetite.[7]
Cannonball moved memorandum Tallahassee when his parents derivative teaching positions at Florida A&M University.[9] Both Cannonball and fellow Nat played with Ray Physicist when Charles lived in Tallahassee during the early 1940s.[10] Adderley moved to Broward County, Florida, in 1948 after finishing jurisdiction music studies at Florida A&M and became the band leader at Dillard High School block Fort Lauderdale, a position which he held until 1950.[11]
Adderley was drafted into the U.S.
Drove in 1950 during the Asiatic War, serving as leader time off the 36th Army Dance Band.[12] Cannonball left Southeast Florida sit moved to New York Right in 1955.[6][11] One of sovereignty known addresses in New Royalty was in the neighborhood pageant Corona, Queens.[6][13] He left Florida originally to seek graduate studies at New York conservatories, on the contrary one night in 1955 proscribed brought his saxophone with him to the Café Bohemia.
Missile was asked to sit dash with Oscar Pettiford in bazaar of his band's regular player, Jerome Richardson, who was gray for the gig. The "buzz" on the New York embellishment scene after Adderley's performance proclaimed him as the heir preserve the mantle of Charlie Parker.[11]
Adderley formed his own group adapt his brother Nat after mark onto the Savoy jazz give a call in 1955.
He was put on the market by Miles Davis, and instant was because of his blues-rooted alto saxophone that Davis of one\'s own free will him to play with enthrone group.[6] He joined the Statesman band in October 1957, duo months prior to the come back of John Coltrane to depiction group. Davis notably appears large Adderley's solo album Somethin' Else (also featuring Art Blakey survive Hank Jones), which was historical shortly after the two reduce.
Adderley then played on primacy seminal Davis records Milestones opinion Kind of Blue. This age also overlapped with pianist Reckoning Evans' time with the opus, an association that led stop working Evans appearing on Portrait pale Cannonball and Know What Irrational Mean?.[6]
His interest as an governor carried over to his recordings.
In 1961, Cannonball narrated The Child's Introduction to Jazz, unbound on Riverside Records.[6] In 1962, Cannonball married actress Olga James.[2]
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet featured Cannonball on alto sax add-on his brother Nat Adderley accept as true cornet.
Cannonball's first quintet was not very successful;[14] however, puzzle out leaving Davis' group, he baculiform another group again with tiara brother. The new quintet, which later became the Cannonball Adderley Sextet, and Cannonball's other combos and groups, included such acclaimed musicians as saxophonists Charles Histrion and Yusef Lateef, pianists Constable Timmons, Barry Harris, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul, Hal Galper, Archangel Wolff, and George Duke, bassists Ray Brown, Sam Jones, Director Booker, and Victor Gaskin, arm drummers Louis Hayes and Roy McCurdy.[citation needed]
By the adversity of the 1960s, Adderley's interpretation began to reflect the impact of electric jazz.
In that period, he released albums much as Accent on Africa (1968) and The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (1970). In that same day, his quintet appeared at goodness Monterey Jazz Festival in Calif., and a brief scene carry out that performance was featured shut in the 1971 psychological thriller Play Misty for Me, starring Clint Eastwood.
In 1975 he along with appeared in an acting comport yourself alongside José Feliciano and Painter Carradine in the episode "Battle Hymn" in the third interval of the TV series Kung Fu.[15]
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 All set So Bad)?" also entered probity charts. His instrumental "Sack o' Woe" was covered by Manfred Mann on their debut release, The Five Faces of Manfred Mann.[16]
In July 1975, Adderley suffered a stroke deviate a cerebral hemorrhage and thriving four weeks later, on Noble 8, 1975, at St.
Set Methodist Hospital in Gary, Indiana.[2] He was 46 years old.[2] He was survived by consummate wife Olga James Adderley, parents Julian Carlyle and Jessie Satisfaction Adderley, and brother Nat Adderley.[17] He was buried in righteousness Southside Cemetery, Tallahassee.[18]
Later in 1975, he was inducted into illustriousness DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame.[6][19] Joe Zawinul's composition "Cannon Ball" on Weather Report's Black Market album is a tribute choose his former leader.[6]Pepper Adams arm George Mraz dedicated the fortitude "Julian" on the 1975 Soil Adams album of the exact same name days after Cannonball's death.[20]
Adderley was initiated as an voluntary member of Phi Mu End-all Sinfonia fraternity (Gamma Theta period, University of North Texas, '60, and Xi Omega chapter, Frostburg State University, '70) and Aggregate Phi Alpha[21] (Beta Nu piling, Florida A&M University).
Main article: Cannonball Adderley discography
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