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Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.Adderley is remembered for his 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", a crossover hit on the pop charts . He worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, on his own 1958 Somethin' Else album, and on the seminal Davis records Milestones and Kind of Blue . He was the older brother of jazz trumpeter Nat Adderley, a longtime member of his band. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. September 1928 – 8. August 1975
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Famous Cannonball Adderley Quotes

“There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.”

Cannonball Adderley

Interviewed by the "Chicago SEED", November 1968

“A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!”

Cannonball Adderley

New to Jazz Artist page http://www.newtojazz.com/artist.asp?id=10&section=guides

“I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.”

Cannonball Adderley

Interviewed by the "Chicago SEED", November 1968

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