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| birth_name = Julian Edwin Adderley| alias = 192815}}| birth_place = Tampa, Florida, U.S.197589|15}}| death_place = Gary, Indiana, U.S.| instrument = SaxophoneJazzhard bop>modal jazzsoul jazz>jazz fusion}}| occupation = Musician| years_active = 1955–1975Blue Note Records>Fantasy Records>Capitol Records>Prestige Records>Riverside}}| website = | module =

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}}Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928{{spnd}}August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.WEB, Ginell, Richard S, {{AllMusic, album, black-messiah-mw0000870617, yes, |title=Black Messiah – Cannonball Adderley : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |work=AllMusic |access-date=July 8, 2012}}BOOK, Randel, Don Michael, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, 1996, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 0-674-37299-9, 5, Adderley, Cannonball,weblink BOOK, Richard Cook, 2005, Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia, Penguin Books, 0-141-00646-3, 3, Adderley is perhaps best remembered for the 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy",WEB,weblink Mercy, Mercy, Mercy – Cannonball Adderley – Song Info – AllMusic, AllMusic, August 1, 2018, which was written for him by his keyboardist Joe Zawinul and became a major crossover hit on the pop and R&B charts. A cover version by the Buckinghams, who added lyrics, also reached No. 5 on the charts. Adderley worked with Miles Davis, first as a member of the Davis sextet, appearing on the seminal records Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959), and then on his own 1958 album Somethin' Else. He was the elder brother of jazz trumpeter Nat Adderley, who was a longtime member of his band.

Early life and career

Julian Edwin Adderley was born on September 15, 1928, in Tampa, Florida to high school guidance counselor and cornet player Julian Carlyle Adderley and elementary school teacher Jessie Johnson.BOOK, Mathieson, Kenny, Oxford Music Online, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, October 4, 2012, Oxford University Press, 1, en, Adderley, Cannonball [Julian Edwin], 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2226820, WEB,weblink Adderley, Cannonball, Tirro, Frank, American National Biography, 2000, Oxford University Press, 10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1801933, October 7, 2022, Elementary school classmates called him "cannonball" (i.e., "cannibal") after his voracious appetite.Cannonball moved to Tallahassee when his parents obtained teaching positions at Florida A&M University.ENCYCLOPEDIA,weblink Adderley, Nat (Nathaniel), Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians, Jazz.com, December 13, 2012, August 30, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130830014833weblink">weblink dead, Both Cannonball and brother Nat played with Ray Charles when Charles lived in Tallahassee during the early 1940s.Lydon, Michael, Ray Charles: Man and Music, Routledge (1996); updated edition, January 22, 2004, {{ISBN|0-415-97043-1}}. 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.Adderley was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1950 during the Korean War, serving as leader of the 36th Army Dance Band.Cannonball Adderley, Biography All About Jazz. Retrieved December 11, 2023. Cannonball left Southeast Florida and moved to New York City in 1955.WEB, Yanow, Scott, {{AllMusic, artist, cannonball-adderley-mn0000548338, yes, |title=Cannonball Adderley – Music Biography, Credits and Discography |work=AllMusic |access-date=July 8, 2012}}WEB,weblink The Cannonball Adderley Biography, Cannonball-adderley.com, September 15, 1928, July 21, 2017, One of his known addresses in New York was in the neighborhood of Corona, Queens.Berman, Eleanor. "The jazz of Queens encompasses music royalty" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102055101weblink |date=January 2, 2012 }}, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 1, 2006. Retrieved 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." 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. Cannonball was asked to sit in with Oscar Pettiford in place of his band's regular saxophonist, Jerome Richardson, 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.Adderley formed his own group with his brother Nat after signing onto the Savoy jazz label in 1955. 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. He joined the Davis band in October 1957, three months prior to the return of John Coltrane to the group. Davis notably appears on Adderley's solo album Somethin' Else (also featuring Art Blakey and Hank Jones), which was recorded shortly after the two 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 Evans appearing on Portrait of Cannonball and Know What I Mean?.His interest as an educator carried over to his recordings. In 1961, Cannonball narrated The Child's Introduction to Jazz, released on Riverside Records. In 1962, Cannonball married actress Olga James.

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;WEB, Milkowski, Bill, Junior Mance: Saved By A Cannonball,weblink January 31, 2023, JazzTimes, 2012, 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.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

Later life

File:Cannonball1961 (crop).jpg|thumb|Nat and Cannonball Adderley in AmsterdamAmsterdamBy the end of the 1960s, Adderley's playing began to reflect the influence of electric jazz. In 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.WEB, KUNG FU (1972/5), The Library of Congress,weblink June 4, 2020, 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 covered by Manfred Mann on their debut album, The Five Faces of Manfred Mann.WEB,weblink Discogs, Manfred Mann – The Five Faces Of Manfred Mann, September 11, 1964, April 4, 2023,

Death and legacy

In July 1975, Adderley suffered a stroke from a cerebral hemorrhage and died four weeks later, on August 8, 1975, at St. Mary Methodist Hospital in Gary, Indiana.NEWS, Wilson, John S., Associated Press, August 9, 1975, Cannonball Adderley, Jazzman, Dead, en-US, The New York Times,weblink October 31, 2021, 0362-4331, He was 46 years old. He was survived by his wife Olga James Adderley, parents Julian Carlyle and Jessie Lee Adderley, and brother Nat Adderley.MAGAZINE, Brown, Geoffrey F., August 28, 1975, The Cannonball Rests, But Brother Nat Carried On,weblink Jet, 58–61, He was buried in the Southside Cemetery, Tallahassee.BOOK,weblink The Tombstone Tourist: Musicians, Scott, Stanton, September 1, 2003, Simon and Schuster, 9780743463300, August 1, 2018, Google Books, Later in 1975, he was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame.WEB, DownBeat Hall of Fame,weblink live, February 19, 2021, DownBeat,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170127123628weblink">weblink January 27, 2017, Joe Zawinul's composition "Cannon Ball" on Weather Report's Black Market album is a tribute to his former leader. Pepper Adams and George Mraz dedicated the composition "Julian" on the 1975 Pepper Adams album of the same name days after Cannonball's death.WEB,weblink PepperAdams.com, PepperAdams.com, December 13, 2012, Adderley was initiated as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity (Gamma Theta chapter, University of North Texas, '60, and Xi Omega chapter, Frostburg State University, '70) and Alpha Phi AlphaWEB,weblink Notable Alphas, Alpha Phi Alpha, August 1, 2018, 11,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170918124511weblink">weblink September 18, 2017, dead, (Beta Nu chapter, Florida A&M University).

Discography

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• {{Find a Grave|8400}}
• {{IMDb name|0011645}}
• Cannonball Adderley at NPR Music
• The Cannonball Adderley Rendez-vous

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