Jazz Articles about Cannonball Adderley

Cannonball Adderley: Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 1, 1999

When surveying the vast catalog of work left for us by alto star and entertainer Cannonball Adderley, for sheer diversity of personnel, approaches, and excellence in writing, the Riverside period of the late '50s and early '60s remains a watermark in the distinguished career of this jazz legend. For just two examples, contrast the understated beauty of Know What I Mean recorded with Bill Evans to the brassy large ensemble blow-out of African Waltz.

Times do change however, and with ...

Cannonball Adderley: Phenix

by Douglas Payne
September 1, 1999

Consider how fate portions what it takes and what it gives. Cannonball Adderley's death by stroke in August 1975 robbed music of one of the most distinctive, dynamic and delightful sounds ever known to jazz. But the big man built a considerable and hugely popular musical catalog over three decades and, on the very precipice of his own mortality, reflected upon it anew. Phenix - from the Egyptian myth of the bird that rises from the flames anew ...

Various Artists: Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 1, 1997

In my wilder, more unforgiving days, I might have merely typed up the personnel and set list and submitted only that in review of Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years, and argued to the powers-that-be that if the reader couldn’t comprehend its abundant magnificence of music from the unadorned facts, my descriptive and persuasive prowess would be of slight use.

I must have grown either more wise or more foolish since then.

Make no mistake: Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary ...