The recording of Cannonball Takes Charge was sandwiched in between two events that would help earn Cannonball Adderley a permanent place in jazz lore. Just the day before the album’s first session, he ...
Adderley's arrival at Capitol Records in 1964, after the first flowering of his music at Riverside, teamed him with David Axelrod, a heavy-handed producer, in comparison with Riverside's looser, ...
It’s hard to describe just how much Nat and Cannonball Adderley contributed to the development of modern jazz — it may be fair to say that jazz wouldn’t be the same today without them. And they spent ...