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〕 |occupation = Teacher, saxophonist |years_active = 1955–1975 |label = Blue Note, Fantasy, Capitol, Prestige, Riverside |associated_acts = Nat Adderley, Miles Davis, George Duke, Yusef Lateef, Sam Jones, Joe Zawinul, Louis Hayes, Bobby Timmons, Bill Evans |website = }} Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was a jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Adderley is remembered for his 1966 single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", a crossover hit on the pop charts, and for his work with trumpeter Miles Davis, including on the epochal album ''Kind of Blue'' (1959). He was the brother of jazz cornetist Nat Adderley, a longtime member of his band.〔 ==Early life and career== Originally from Tampa, Florida, Adderley moved to New York in 1955.〔(Cannoball-Adderley.com )〕 His nickname derived from "cannibal", a title imposed on him by high school colleagues as a tribute to his voracious appetite. Cannonball moved to Tallahassee, Florida, when his parents obtained teaching positions at Florida A&M University. Both Cannonball and brother Nat played with Ray Charles when Charles lived in Tallahassee during the early 1940s.〔Lydon, Michael, ''Ray Charles: Man and Music'', Routledge (1996); updated edition, January 22, 2004, ISBN 0-415-97043-1.〕 Adderley moved to Broward County, Florida, in 1948 after finishing his music studies at Tallahassee and became the band director at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a position which he held until 1950.〔 Cannonball was a local legend in Southeast Florida until he moved to New York City in 1955. One of his known addresses in New York Corona, Queens.〔〔Berman, Eleanor. ("The jazz of Queens encompasses music royalty" ), ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', January 1, 2006. Accessed October 1, 2009. "When the trolley tour proceeds, Mr. Knight points out the nearby Dorie Miller Houses, a co-op apartment complex in Corona where Clark Terry and Cannonball and Nat Adderley lived and where saxophonist Jimmy Heath still resides."〕 He left Florida originally to seek graduate studies at New York conservatories, but one night in 1955 he brought his saxophone with him to the Cafe Bohemia. Asked to sit in with Oscar Pettiford in place of his band's regular saxophonist, who was late for the gig, the "buzz" on the New York jazz scene after Adderley's performance announced him as the heir to the mantle of Charlie Parker.〔 Adderley formed his own group with his brother Nat after signing onto the Savoy jazz label in 1957. He was noticed by Miles Davis, and it was because of his blues-rooted alto saxophone that Davis asked him to play with his group.〔 He joined the Davis band in October of 1957, three months prior to the return of John Coltrane to the group. Adderley played on the seminal Davis records ''Milestones'' and ''Kind of Blue''. This period also overlapped with pianist Bill Evans' time with the sextet, an association that led to recording ''Portrait of Cannonball'' and ''Know What I Mean?''.〔 His interest as an educator carried over to his recordings. In 1961, Cannonball narrated ''The Child's Introduction to Jazz'', released on Riverside Records.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cannonball Adderley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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