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 Miles ...

I didn't try to play like Cannonball, I focused on how he tells a story. You have to tell stories if you're going to connect with an audience and there was no one better at that than him. The alto ...

Cannonball Adderley was one of Charlie Parker 's key successors. A giant of the alto saxophone, Adderley is perhaps best remembered as a member of Miles Davis's iconic 1959 band - the group that ...

Domination is a curious curate's egg of an album, not previously available on CD, and some of it bears considerable historical interest. Tracks 1-8, recorded in '65 and originally released as ...

Good morning everybody…and Happy Diwali. So we here at CrossFade give readers a taste of the old-school every week with Throwback Tuesdays. This week, we’re throwing it way back and including a local ...

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, The ...