“Hipness is not a state of mind, it is a fact of life.” – Cannonball Adderley Julian Edwin Cannonball Adderly was born 86 years ago today in 1928 in Tampa, FL. Just prior to his innovative commercial breakthru as a leading proponent of hard bop, he was also a Broward County band director at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale from 1948 to 1956, During the summer of 1955, he went to New York and recorded material for three landmark albums on Columbia. As well as leading his own groups, he was part of the group Miles Davis used to record the landmark Kind of Blue in 1957 along with John Coltrane. Reorganizing his quintet in 1959, Adderley recorded a live album at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco that stimulated the soul jazz era in the 1960s. Later, as Adderley perfected his own blend of bebop, funk, soul and R&B, he worked with Quincy Jones, Sergio Mendes and future members of Weather Report like percussionist Dom Um Romao and keyboard player Joe Zawinul. Through it all, he also worked almost constantly with his brother, trumpeter and composer Nat Adderley. Cannonball Adderley introduced his 1967 live recording of “Walk Tall,” by saying, “There are times when things don’t lay the way they’re supposed to lay. But regardless, you’re supposed to hold your head up high and walk tall.” In 1969, he dedicated his time to presenting a two-day program of lectures, seminars, his band members take on the rapidly fading from chart popularity art of jazz at schools including Savannah State College in Georgia, Florida A&M University (his alma mater), Laney College in Oakland, California, and West Virginia University. He died in 1975.
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