A few seconds past the five-minute mark in "So What," the opening track of Miles Davis's masterpiece album Kind of Blue, an alto sax moves to the front of the mix. The artist behind that solo was ...

The brothers Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto saxophone and Nat Adderley on cornet led one of the most popular bands of the 1960s. Cannonball had the higher profile, coming off his time with ...

Jazz impresario Julian "Cannonball" Adderley has always been one of my favorite saxophone players--and he's easily one of the best alto sax players of all time. A lot of people may or may not know ...

Alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball Adderley led one of the most popular groups in jazz in the early '60s. So popular, in fact, that for three-and-a-half years his usual band, a quintet, was expanded ...

Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley is a jazzman with a nagging, but not unique, problem: the more successful he becomes, the less his original, far-out fans like him. One of his recent albums, ...

It could have been 1962. On Saturday evening at Baird Auditorium at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, a quintet of musicians from the Smithsonian Jazz Master Works Orchestra ...

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley left a monumental legacy during his two decades in the spotlight. Revisit his music with old bandmates and Patrick Bartley Jr.'s young New York band.