Cannonball Adderley

Artist:  Cannonball Adderley
Birth Name:  Julian Edwin Adderley
Born:  September 15, 1928.  Tampa, Florida, USA
Died:  August 8, 1975 (Aged 46).  Gary, Indiana, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz, Modal Jazz, Jazz Rock, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Occupation:  Teacher, Saxophonist
Instruments: Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone

Cannonball Adderley was an American Jazz Saxophonist of the Hard Bop Era of the 1950s and 1960s.  He worked with Miles Davis on album King Of Blue (1959).  In 1966, his single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" a crossover hit on the Pop Charts.  He was with his brother Nat Adderley, a long time member of his band.

Artist:  The Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Title:  Complete Quintet In San Francisco  (2010)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz, Modal Jazz, Jazz Rock, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Labe;:  Essential Jazz Classics
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  Announcement by Cannonball Into "This Here"  (12:30)
 2.  Spontaneous Combustion  (11:56)
 3.  Hi-Fly  (11:12)
 4.  You Got It!  (5:07)
 5.  Bohemia After Dark  (8:07)
 6.  This Here (Version No. 2)  (11:37)
 7.  You Got It! (Version No. 2)  (6:13)
 8.  Straight, No Chaser  (11:52)

Personnel:

Cannonball Adderley:  Alto Saxophone
Nat Adderley:  Cornet
Bobby Timmons:  Piano
Sam Jones:  Bass
Louis Hayes:  Drums

Complete Quintet In San Francisco is a 1959 album by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, originally released in 1959 by Riverside Records, remastered and reissued in 2010 by Essential Jazz Classics, featuring Nat Adderley, Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes.