On a more upbeat note than my last post, I found a marvelous video of the great alto sax jazzman Cannonball Adderley on the Dailymotion webpage. It's about 25 minutes long, and contains three pieces. The notes are in French, and include a brief biography but no information about the venue or the band. Fortunately, Cannonball-Adderley.com has the goods. The band includes Cannonball on alto, his brother Nat on cornet, Joe Zawinul on keyboards, Yusef Lateef on tenor, Sam Jones on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums. The set was filmed for German TV in March of 1963. The video is as bad as these things tend to be, but the audio is good enough.
One final note: Julian Adderley's nickname was originally "cannibal Adderley," a reference to his appetites. "Cannonball" was a corruption, but one that I suspect did his career a lot of good.
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