1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st)
NEW YORK, NY 10023
RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121
www.iridiumjazzclub.com
Tue - Thur 8:00pm and 10:00pm
Fri & Sat 8:00pm, 10:00pm and 11:30pm
Sun 8:30pm and 10:30pm
Sept. 21-26 CANNONBALL ADDERLEY BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
FEAT. JAMES MOODY, JAMES CARTER, with
Michael Wolff, Walter Booker, Roy McCurdy, Vincent Herring
Third Sets Fri. and Sunday with everyone except James Moody!
Julian Edwin 'Cannonball' Adderley was born on September 15, 1928 in Tampa, Florida and died August 8th, 1975 in Gary, Indiana from a stroke. His alto playing took the free-blowing message Charlie Parker gave alto players and used it to simple yet devastating effect in pioneering the “soul jazz" movement, an offspring of bop heavily accented by R&B and gospel. His sense of melody and groove-oriented rhythm brought Adderley from recognition as a young lion alongside John Coltrane in Miles Davis' band (the two saxophonists engage in sublime dialog on the epochal Davis recording'
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