1 album as leader and 28 as sideman (1954–2010), each listed chronologically.
Paul Quinichette, Bennie Green, Frank Foster, Joe Newman, Hank Jones, Kenny Clarke, Eddie Jones, Johnny Smith
1954 · Decca
Cannonball Adderley With Horace Silver, Paul Chambers, Donald Byrd, Nat Adderley, Jerome Richardson, Kenny Clarke
1955 · Savoy Records
Ernie Wilkins / Frank Wess / Jerome Richardson / Hank Jones / Eddie Jones / Kenny Clarke
1955 · Savoy Records
Trio, The Featuring Hank Jones, Wendell Marshall And Kenny Clarke
1956 · Savoy Records
Trio, The Featuring Hank Jones, Wendell Marshall And Kenny Clarke
1956 · Savoy Records
Hank Jones Trio With Mads Vinding & Al Foster
1991 · Storyville
1957 · Bass on Top and 1 more
Somethin' Else (1958) carries Cannonball Adderley's name, and it is one of the few dates where Miles Davis shows up as a sideman. The piano chair went not to anyone from Miles's own band but to Hank Jones, then largely a studio hand.
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
1956 · Port Of Rico
Count Basie is known as the face of his own big band, but on the 1956 session 'Port of Rico,' he turns up simply as the piano player inside someone else's orchestra. For one date, the bandleader becomes the sideman.
1958 · 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.
1986 · Hot Flutes
Ray Brown died in 2002, yet his name still appears in the credits of the 2021 album Deciphering the Message — a record built not from new sessions but from re-edited vintage Blue Note tape, so a half-century-old bass take turns up on a release dated almost two decades after the player's death.
2000 · The Complete JATP Performances
The 1958 second volume of Ella Fitzgerald's Duke Ellington Song Book ends with "Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald," a four-part piece written for her rather than drawn from the existing catalogue. It is an instrumental: the orchestra plays it, and the singer whose name is on the cover sits it out.
Joe Henderson
Cannonball Adderley
