Cannonball Adderley
By Stuart Kremsky
It sounds like the stuff of myth, but everyone that was around the Café Bohemia the night that Julian “Cannonball” Adderley sat in for the first time tells a similar tale. It was mid-June 1955 and this was Adderley’s first night in New York. He and his brother Nat, a cornetist who had recently left the Lionel Hampton band, were sitting in the back with their instruments while bassist Oscar Pettiford was leading the band on stage. Saxophonist Jerome Richardson was supposed to be in the group, but was nowhere to be found. When Pettiford looked around the room for a replacement, he spotted Adderley and... Read More
- City Of Origin:
- Tampa, Florida, United States
- Genre:
- Jazz, Bop
- Birthdate:
- 09/15/1928
- Death date:
- 08/08/1975
