1959 · Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue
— Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn, 2000
Library — Saxophone
Cannonball Adderley
4 albums as leader and 11 as sideman (1955–1996), each listed chronologically.
As Leader · 4
As Sideman · 11
1955
Bohemia After Dark
Cannonball Adderley With Horace Silver, Paul Chambers, Donald Byrd, Nat Adderley, Jerome Richardson, Kenny Clarke
1955 · Savoy Records
New Bottle Old Wine
Gil Evans And His Orchestra Featuring Cannonball Adderley
1958 · World Pacific Records
SidemanAlto Saxophone
Notes on these albums · 6
John Coltrane
Paul Chambers1958 · Somethin' Else
In 1955, Cannonball Adderley moved to New York only to start a graduate program in music education, not a music career. He sat in at a club one night, the room lit up, and within weeks he had a record deal — cutting his debut album, Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley, before he'd even settled into school.
1958 · Milestones
Cannonball Adderley
— So What: The Life of Miles Davis, John Szwed, 2002
1955 · Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Jerome Richardson worked reed sections across the bebop era — but in 1959 he found himself in a horn section assembled under an arranger's baton, with Miles Davis, already a star bandleader in his own right, sitting in as a sideman.
1966 · Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!
In June 1955 an alto player fresh out of Florida sat in at the Cafe Bohemia and was a talking point within weeks. The record made that summer, Bohemia After Dark (1955), went out under the drummer's name — so Cannonball Adderley's starting point is not a leader date of his own, and his brother Nat Adderley is on it too, on cornet.
1955 · Bohemia After Dark
In the 1960s, as a sideman in Horace Silver's band, Joe Henderson said he didn't want to make Silver's music into something other than what Silver had envisioned — he wanted to make it even more exactly what Silver had envisioned. Long before he became known for his own singular voice as a leader, Henderson framed the sideman's job as service, not self-assertion.
— Statement stmt-joe-henderson-on-horace-silver
Joe Henderson