Cannonball Adderley Quotes

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

Cannonball Adderley

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

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

Cannonball Adderley

Cannonball Adderley

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Born: September 15, 1928

Died: August 8, 1975 (aged 46)

Bio: Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley was a jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.

Known for:

Somethin' Else (1958)
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club' (1966)
Know What I Mean? (1961)
The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1962)
Cannonball Adderley Live! (1964)

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