Cannonball Adderley Quotes

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.Adderley is remembered for his 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", a crossover hit on the pop charts (it was also covered by the Buckinghams). He worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, on his own 1958 Somethin' Else album, and on the seminal Davis records Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959). ...more

Birth: September 15, 1928 - Death: August 08, 1975

There’s no future without the past and anybody who doesn’t really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it’s going.

You don’t decide you’re hip. It just happens that way.

Topic(s): Way , Happens , Musician

Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.

Topic(s): Important , Form , Understanding

A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!

Topic(s): Men , Years , Made

Hipness is not a state of mind, It’s a fact of life!

Topic(s): Mind , States , Facts

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

Topic(s): Jazz , My Favorite , Philosopher

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Cannonball Adderley Quotes