Cannonball Adderley & John Coltrane

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley September 15 1928 – August 8 1975 Was A Jazz Alto Saxophonist Of The Small Combo Era Of The 1950s And 1960s. Originally From Tampa Florida He Moved To New York In The Mid 1950s. He Was The Brother Of Jazz Cornetist Nat Adderley. His Educational Career Was Long Established Prior To Teaching Applied Instrumental Music Classes At Dillard High School In Fort Lauderdale Florida. Cannonball Was A Local Legend In Florida Until He Moved To New York City In 1955. He Joined The Miles Davis Sextet In 1957 Around The Time That John Coltrane Left The Group To Join Thelonious Monk's Band. Coltrane Would Return To Davis's Group In 1958 . Adderley Played On The Seminal Davis Records Milestones And Kind Of Blue. This Period Also Overlapped With Pianist Bill Evans's Time With The Sextet An Association That Led To Recording Portrait Of Cannonball And Know What I Mean?. His Interest As An Educator Carried Over To His Recordings. In 1961 Cannonball Narrated The Child's Introduction To Jazz Released On Riverside Records. John William Coltrane September 23 1926 – July 17 1967 Was An American Jazz Saxophonist And Composer. Starting In Bebop And Hard Bop Coltrane Later Pioneered Free Jazz. He Influenced Generations Of Other Musicians And Remains One Of The Most Significant Tenor Saxophonists In Jazz History. He Was Astonishingly Prolific He Made About Fifty Recordings As A Leader In His Twelve-Year-Long Recording Career And Appeared As A Sideman On Many Other Albums Notably With Trumpeter Miles Davis. As His Career Progressed Coltrane's Music Took On An Increasingly Spiritual Dimension. His Second Wife Was Pianist Alice Coltrane And Their Son Ravi Coltrane Is Also A Saxophonist. He Received A Posthumous Special Citation From The Pulitzer Prize Board In 2007 For His "masterful Improvisation Supreme Musicianship And Iconic Centrality To The History Of Jazz." read less