Results for "Julian "Cannonball" Adderley"

ARTICLE: BUILDING A JAZZ LIBRARY April 30, 2020

Hard Bop: An Alternative Top Ten

Hard bop was the jazz centre of the world from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s, producing many hundreds of immortal albums. Trying to whittle these down to a definitive Top Ten is fun—but it is a subjective and ultimately impossible exercise. In an attempt to dodge those hurdles, the list which ...

ARTICLE: TAKE FIVE WITH... October 9, 2019

Take Five with Ed Palermo

By EDWARD PALERMO

Meet Ed Palermo Ed Palermo is an arranger, composer and alto saxophonist mostly known for his big band and their interpretations of the music of Ed's hero, Frank Zappa. Coming out of college in jny: Chicago, his initial plan was to become a great jazz tenor saxophonist in the vein of Michael Brecker, Steve Grossman and ...

NEWS: RECORDING September 30, 2019

A Lousy Day in Harlem is a great day for jazz with The Ed Palermo Big Band! Available now!

A Lousy Day in Harlem is a great day for jazz with The Ed Palermo Big Band, as the band known for reinventing the music of Frank Zappa turns its attention to a riveting program of Monk, Coltrane, Ellington, and hard-swinging originals, confirming Ed Palermo’s place in jazz’s top ranks of contemporary big band arrangers. In a ...
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NEWS: BIRTHDAY September 15, 2019

Jazz Musician of the Day: Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

All About Jazz is celebrating Julian “Cannonball" Adderley's birthday today! Both as the leader of his own bands as well as an alto and soprano saxophone stylist, Julian Edwin “Cannonball" Adderley was one of the progenitors of the swinging, rhythmically robust style of music that became known as hard-bop. Born September 15, 1928, into a musical ...
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ARTICLE: TALKING 2 MUSICIANS May 29, 2019

Remembering Kofi Burbridge: 1961-2019

By ALAN BRYSON

Kofi Burbridge, keyboardist, flutist, arranger, and composer with the Tedeschi Trucks Band, passed away on February 15, 2019 at the age of 57. His health issues became public in the summer of 2017 when he underwent emergency heart surgery. Things seemed hopeful after his return to the band and his participation in the recording of what ...

ARTICLE: MULTIPLE REVIEWS April 9, 2019

Introducing Reel to Real Records

By JAKOB BAEKGAARD

As the driving force behind the Cellar Live label, saxophonist Cory Weeds has been busy doing his share to promote contemporary jazz, so it comes as a pleasant surprise that he has found the time to start the archive label Reel to Real. Unlike reissues that are sometimes lost treasures that are found again, an archive ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW February 19, 2019

Richie Cole: Cannonball

By ROB ROSENBLUM

Richie Cole and Julian Cannonball" Adderley. It's as natural as soap and water. In an interview on this site, Cole proclaimed that the famed jazz musician was his favorite altoist. Like Adderley, Cole can cover a wide range of music--from the hardest of hard bop to commercial ditties. And also like Adderley, for Cole the audience ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW February 13, 2019

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley: Swingin' in Seattle, Live at the Penthouse 1966-1967

By LUCA CANINI

Un imperdibile e prezioso inedito. Settanta minuti di musica mai ascoltati prima che arrivano dritti dritti dalla seconda metà degli anni Sessanta. Un periodo cruciale per Julian Cannonball Adderley e il suo quintetto, freschi di approdo alla californiana Capitol, etichetta con le spalle decisamente più larghe e molto meno “ortodossa" rispetto alla newyorchese Riverside, e lanciati ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW January 16, 2019

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley: Swingin' In Seattle, Live At The Penthouse 1966-1967

By MIKE JURKOVIC

Julian Cannonball" Adderley and his merry men--brother/cornetist Nat Adderley, bassist Victor Gaskin, backbeat king drummer Roy McCurdy and bursting-at-the-seams-with-new-ideas pianist Joe Zawinul--were having themselves a high time during 1966-67, that Renaissance time of adventure between Cecil Taylor's Unit Structures (Blue Note, 1966), Miles Smiles (Columbia, 1967) and the colorful, imagination emancipations of Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEW December 29, 2018

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels with Lucinda Williams at Zellerbach Hall

By HARRY S. PARISER

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels with Lucinda Williams Zellerbach Hall Berkeley, CA December 6, 2018 It isn't often that a pedal steel guitar is found in a jazz ensemble. And it is even less frequent that a country music singer-songwriter joins one on vocals. But this iconoclastic collaboration had its genesis ...