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Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975), was a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 alto saxophonist
Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the Tenor saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
 of the small combo era of the 1950s and 1960s. Originally from Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a United States city in Hillsborough County, Florida, on the west coast of the state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County....
, he moved to New York in the mid 1950s.

He was the brother of jazz cornet
Cornet

Not to be confused with coronetThe cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical Bore , compact shape, and mellower tone quality....
ist Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley

Nathaniel Adderley was an United States jazz cornet and trumpet player who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian Cannonball Adderley....
.

educational career was long established prior to teaching applied instrumental music classes at Dillard High School
Dillard High School

Dillard High School is a public high school located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida of Broward County, Florida. Dillard is available to all of Broward County....
 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate canal system, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States....
. Cannonball was a local legend in Florida until he moved to New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 in 1955.

He joined the Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 sextet in 1957, around the time that John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
 left the group to join Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
's band.






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Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975), was a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 alto saxophonist
Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the Tenor saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
 of the small combo era of the 1950s and 1960s. Originally from Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a United States city in Hillsborough County, Florida, on the west coast of the state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County....
, he moved to New York in the mid 1950s.

He was the brother of jazz cornet
Cornet

Not to be confused with coronetThe cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical Bore , compact shape, and mellower tone quality....
ist Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley

Nathaniel Adderley was an United States jazz cornet and trumpet player who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian Cannonball Adderley....
.

Educator and saxophonist

His educational career was long established prior to teaching applied instrumental music classes at Dillard High School
Dillard High School

Dillard High School is a public high school located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida of Broward County, Florida. Dillard is available to all of Broward County....
 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate canal system, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States....
. Cannonball was a local legend in Florida until he moved to New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 in 1955.

He joined the Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 sextet in 1957, around the time that John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
 left the group to join Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
's band. (Coltrane would return to Davis's group in 1958). Adderley played on the seminal Davis records Milestones
Milestones (album)

Milestones is an album recorded in February and March 1958 by Miles Davis. It is renowned for including Miles' first forays into the developing modal jazz experiments, as noticed on the piece "Miles" , which would be followed to its logical conclusion on Kind of Blue....
 and Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue

Kind of Blue is a studio album by United States jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959 on Columbia Records, in both monaural and stereo....
. This period also overlapped with pianist Bill Evans
Bill Evans

William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
's time with the sextet, an association that led to recording Portrait of Cannonball and Know What I Mean?
Know What I Mean?

Know What I Mean?' is a 1961 album by jazz musician Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, accompanied by Bill Evans and the rhythm section of the Modern Jazz Quartet....
.

His interest as an educator carried over to his recordings. In 1961, Cannonball narrated The Child's Introduction to Jazz, released on Riverside Records.

Band leader

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet featured Cannonball on alto sax and his brother Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley

Nathaniel Adderley was an United States jazz cornet and trumpet player who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian Cannonball Adderley....
 on cornet. Adderley's first quintet was not very successful. However, after leaving Davis' group, he reformed another, again with his brother, which enjoyed more success.

The new quintet (which later became the Cannonball Adderley Sextet), and Cannonball's other combos and groups, included such noted musicians as:
  • pianists Bobby Timmons
    Bobby Timmons

    Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons was an United States jazz pianist and composer. He is best known for his role as sideman in Art Blakey Jazz Messengers and the composition of "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here", each of which are typical of his distinctive Gospel music soul-jazz style....
    , Victor Feldman
    Victor Feldman

    Victor Stanley Feldman was a United Kingdom jazz musician.He caused a sensation as a musical prodigy when he was "discovered" at age 7. His family were all musical and his father founded the Feldman Swing Club in London in 1942 to showcase his talented son....
    , Joe Zawinul
    Joe Zawinul

    Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrians jazz keyboard instrument and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with elements of Rock music and world music....
     (later of Weather Report
    Weather Report

    Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b, funk and Rock music elements ....
    ), Hal Galper
    Hal Galper

    Harold "Hal" Galper is a jazz pianist born in Salem, Massachusetts on April 18, 1938. He studied classical piano as a boy, but switched to jazz which he studied at the Berklee College of Music from 1955 to 1958....
    , Michael Wolff
    Michael Wolff

    Michael Wolff is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and singer-songwriter....
     and George Duke
    George Duke

    George Duke is a piano and synthesizer pioneer and singer. He made a name for himself with the album The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio....
  • bassists Sam Jones
    Samuel Jones (musician)

    Samuel Jones was a jazz double bass, cellist, and composer.Jones played with Tiny Bradshaw, Les Jazz Modes, Kenny Dorham, Illinois Jacquet, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk....
    , Walter Booker
    Walter Booker

    Walter Booker was an American jazz. A native of Prairie View, Texas, Booker was a reliable Double bass player and an underrated stylist. His playing was marked by voice-like inflections, glissandos and tremolo techniques....
     and Victor Gaskin
  • drummers Louis Hayes
    Louis Hayes

    Louis Hayes is a jazz hard bop drummer.His father played drums and piano and his mother the piano and he refers to the early influence of hearing jazz, especially that of big bands, on the radio....
     and Roy McCurdy
    Roy McCurdy

    Roy McCurdy, born November 28, 1936 in Rochester, New York, is a Jazz drumming.Before joining Cannonball Adderley's Quintet in 1965 and staying with the band until Adderley's death in 1975, he had played with Chuck Mangione and Gap Mangione in the Jazz Brothers , as well as with Bobby Timmons, Betty Carter and Sonny Rollins ....
  • saxophonists Charles Lloyd and Yusef Lateef
    Yusef Lateef

    Dr. Yusef Lateef is an United States jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and Music education and a renowned spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to Islam in 1950....
    .


The sextet was noteworthy towards the end of the 1960s for achieving crossover success with pop audiences, but doing it without making artistic concessions.

Later life

By the end of 1960s, Adderley's playing began to reflect the influence of the electric jazz avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
, and Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
' experiments on the album Bitches Brew
Bitches Brew

Bitches Brew is a Studio album double album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in June of 1970 on Columbia Records. Recording sessions took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio over the course of three days in August of 1969....
. On his albums from this period, such as The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (1970), he began doubling on soprano saxophone
Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone was invented in 1840 and is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument. The soprano is the second in size of the saxophone family which consists, as generally accepted, of the sopranino saxophone, soprano, Alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, and contrabass saxophone....
, showing the influence of John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
 and Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter is an United States jazz composer and saxophone, commonly regarded as one of the most important American jazz saxophonists and composers since the 1960s....
. In that same year, his quintet appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey Jazz Festival

The Monterey Jazz Festival is one of the longest consecutively running jazz festivals. It debuting on October 3, 1958 and was founded the by San Francisco jazz radio broadcaster James L....
 in California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, and a brief scene of that performance was featured in the 1971 psychological thriller Play Misty for Me
Play Misty for Me

Play Misty for Me is a 1971 in film psychological thriller film, film director by and starring Clint Eastwood, in his directorial debut. The original music score was composed by Dee Barton....
, starring Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
. In 1975 he also appeared (in an acting role alongside Jose Feliciano
José Feliciano

Jos? Montserrate Feliciano Garc?a is a Puerto Rico singer and virtuoso guitarist, known for many international hits. He was born permanently blind due to congenital glaucoma....
 and David Carradine
David Carradine

David Carradine is an United States actor....
) in the episode "Battle Hymn" in the third season of the TV series Kung Fu
Kung Fu (TV series)

Kung Fu is an American television series which starred David Carradine. It was created by Ed Spielman, directed and produced by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller ....
.

Adderley died of a stroke
Stroke

A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to a disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. According to the National Stroke Association, a "stroke" occurs when a blood clot blocks and artery or a blood vessel breaks, interrupting blood flow to an area of the brain....
 in 1975. He was buried in the Southside Cemetery, Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the Capital of the Florida, USA, and the county seat of Leon County, Florida. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida in 1824....
. Later that year he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame
Down Beat

Down Beat is an United States magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years....
.

Joe Zawinul's composition "Cannon Ball" (recorded on Weather Report
Weather Report

Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b, funk and Rock music elements ....
's album Black Market
Black Market (album)

Black Market is an instrumental jazz fusion album released by Weather Report in 1976. This album was produced by Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter....
) is a tribute to his former leader.

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
Pops Staples

Roebuck "Pops" Staples was a Mississippi-born Gospel music and Rhythm and blues musician. He was an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and singer....
' "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)?" also entered the charts.

Adderley was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is a collegiate social fraternity for men with an interest in music. The fraternity is also referred to as Phi Mu Alpha or Sinfonia, and its members are known as Sinfonians....
 Fraternity of America Incorporated (Xi Omega, Frostburg State University, '70), the largest and oldest secret society in music and Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha

Alpha Phi Alpha is the first intercollegiate Fraternities and sororities established by African Americans. Founded on December 4, 1906, on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Alpha Phi Alpha has initiated over 185,000 men into the organization and has been open to men of all races since 1940....
, the oldest existing intercollegiate Greek-letter
Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BCE....
 fraternity established for African Americans (made Beta Nu chapter, Florida A&M University
Florida A&M University

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, commonly known as Florida A&M or FAMU, is a Historically black colleges and universities located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, the state capital, and is one of eleven institutions in Florida's State University System....
).

Discography


As a leader

  • Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings (1955)
  • Jump For Joy (1957)
  • Portrait of Cannonball (1958)
  • Somethin' Else (1958) - with Miles Davis
    Miles Davis

    Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
    , Hank Jones
    Hank Jones

    Henry "Hank" Jones is an United States jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. Critics and musicians have described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable....
    , Sam Jones, Art Blakey
    Art Blakey

    Arthur Blakey , born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an United States jazz drummer and bandleader....
  • Things Are Getting Better (1958)
  • Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (1959) - with John Coltrane
    John Coltrane

    John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
  • The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
    The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco

    The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco is a 1959 album by jazz band Cannonball Adderley. The groundbreaking album launched "soul jazz", according to National Public Radio bridging "the gap between bebop and funk"....
     (1959)
  • Cannonball and Coltrane (1959)
  • Blue Spring
    Blue Spring

    Blue Spring can refer to:...
     (1959) - with Kenny Dorham
    Kenny Dorham

    McKinley Howard Dorham was an United States jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas....
  • At the Lighthouse (1960)
  • Them Dirty Blues (1960)
  • What Is This Thing Called Soul? (1960)
  • Sweet and Lovely (1960/1961)
  • Know What I Mean?
    Know What I Mean?

    Know What I Mean?' is a 1961 album by jazz musician Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, accompanied by Bill Evans and the rhythm section of the Modern Jazz Quartet....
     (1961) - with Bill Evans
    Bill Evans

    William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
  • African Waltz (1961)
  • The Quintet Plus (1961)
  • Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley
    Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley

    Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley is a 1961 album by Cannonball Adderley and his quintet with Nancy Wilson sitting in "as a sort of easy-going third horn" ....
     (1961)
  • In New York (1962)
  • Cannonball's Bossa Nova
    Cannonball's Bossa Nova

    Cannonball's Bossa Nova' is a 1962 album by jazz musician Julian "Cannonball" Adderley....
     (1962)
  • Dizzy's Business (1962)
  • Jazz Workshop Revisited (1963)
  • Nippon Soul (1963)
  • Fiddler on the Roof
    Fiddler on the Roof

    Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
     (1964)
  • Domination (1965) - Orchestrated and arranged by Oliver Nelson
    Oliver Nelson

    Oliver Edward Nelson was an United States jazz Saxophone, clarinetist, arranger and composer....
  • Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'
    Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'

    Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club' is a 1966 album by jazz musician Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. Though the original liner notes state that it was recorded at the Club De Lisa in Chicago, it was actually recorded in a studio with an invited audience and an open bar....
     (1966)
  • Cannonball in Japan
    Cannonball in Japan

    Cannonball in Japan is a live recording by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Sankei Shimbun in Tokyo, Japan....
     (1966)
  • Why Am I Treated So Bad! (1967)
  • 74 Miles Away (1967)
  • Radio Nights
    Radio Nights

    Radio Nights is an album released in 1991 featuring previously unreleased live radio broadcasts by the Cannonball Adderley Quartet, Quintet and Sextet from New York City's legendary Half Note Club jazz club....
     (1967)
  • Accent On Africa (1968)
  • Country Preacher
    Country Preacher

    Country Preacher is a live recording by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet at a meeting of the Chicago chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket....
     (1969)
  • The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (1970)
  • The Black Messiah (Live) (1972)
  • Inside Straight (1973)
  • Pyramid (1974)
  • Love, Sex, and the Zodiac (1974)
  • Phenix (1975)
  • Big Man (1975) (Musical with Joe Williams
    Joe Williams (jazz singer)

    Joe Williams was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singing a mixture of blues music, ballads, popular songs, and jazz standards....
     and Randy Crawford
    Randy Crawford

    Randy Crawford , is an American jazz and Rhythm and blues singer....
    )


As sideman

With Miles Davis
  • Milestones
    Milestones (album)

    Milestones is an album recorded in February and March 1958 by Miles Davis. It is renowned for including Miles' first forays into the developing modal jazz experiments, as noticed on the piece "Miles" , which would be followed to its logical conclusion on Kind of Blue....
     (1958)
  • Miles & Monk at Newport
    Miles & Monk at Newport

    Miles & Monk at Newport was a combined album of a Miles Davis appearance at Newport with an appearance of Thelonious Monk, from the Gramophone record era....
     (1958)
  • Jazz at the Plaza
    Jazz at the Plaza

    Jazz at the Plaza is a live album by Miles Davis. It was recorded in 1958 but not released until 1973....
     (1958)
  • Porgy and Bess
    Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)

    Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1958 on Columbia Records. The album features arrangements by Davis and collaborator Gil Evans from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess....
     (1958)
  • Kind of Blue
    Kind of Blue

    Kind of Blue is a studio album by United States jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959 on Columbia Records, in both monaural and stereo....
     (1959)


As a producer
  • Wide Open Spaces (1960) - David Newman
    David Newman (jazz musician)

    David "Fathead" Newman was an United States saxophonist....
  • A Portrait of Thelonious (1961) - Bud Powell
    Bud Powell

    Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz piano. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bebop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk....
  • Don Byas
    Don Byas

    Carlos Wesley Byas was an African American jazz tenor saxophonist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in the United States. Although his long residence in Europe kept him out of the public eye in the United States, he is a significant influence on later players of his instrument....
     & Bud Powell - Tribute To Cannonball (1961)


Awards

  • 1967 Grammy Award
    Grammy Award

    The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
    , Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Small Group or Soloist with Small Group
    Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group

    The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Album, Individual or Group has been presented since 1959. Before 1962 and from 1972 to 1978 the award title did not specify instrumental performances and was presented for instrumental or vocal performances....
     for "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'
    Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'

    Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club' is a 1966 album by jazz musician Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. Though the original liner notes state that it was recorded at the Club De Lisa in Chicago, it was actually recorded in a studio with an invited audience and an open bar....
    " by Cannonball Adderley Quintet


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