This discography of jazz saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley includes albums released under his own name and albums to which he made significant contributions.
Recording date | Title | Label | Year released | Notes |
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1955-07-14 | Presenting Cannonball Adderley | Savoy | 1955 | |
1955-07-21, -29 1955-08-05 | Julian "Cannonball" Adderley | EmArcy | 1955 | |
1955-10-27, -28 | Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings | EmArcy | 1955 | |
1956-06-08, -18 | In the Land of Hi-Fi with Julian Cannonball Adderley | EmArcy | 1956 | |
1957-02-06, -08, -11 | Sophisticated Swing | EmArcy | 1957 | |
1957-02-07, -08, -11 1957-03-06 | Cannonball Enroute | Mercury | 1961 | |
1958-03-04, -06 | Cannonball's Sharpshooters | Mercury | 1958 | |
1958-03-09 | Somethin' Else – with Miles Davis | Blue Note | 1958 | |
1958-07-01 | Portrait of Cannonball | Riverside | 1958 | |
1958-08-20, -21 | Jump for Joy | EmArcy | 1958 | |
1958-10-28 | Things Are Getting Better – with Milt Jackson | Riverside | 1958 | |
1959-01-20 1959-02-18 | Blue Spring – with Kenny Dorham | Riverside | 1959 | |
1959-02-03 | Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago – with John Coltrane | Mercury | 1959 | |
1959-04-23, -07 1959-05-12 | Cannonball Takes Charge | Riverside | 1959 | |
1959-10-18, -20 | The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco | Riverside | 1959 | Live |
1960-02-01 1960-03-29 | Them Dirty Blues | Riverside | 1960 | |
1960-05-21 1960-06-05 | Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners – with Wes Montgomery | Riverside | 1960 | |
1960-10-16 | The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse | Riverside | 1960 | Live |
1961-01-27 1960-02-21 1961-03-13 | Know What I Mean? – with Bill Evans | Riverside | 1961 | |
1961-02-28 1961-05-09, -15 | African Waltz – with orchestra conducted by Ernie Wilkins | Riverside | 1961 | |
1961-05-11 | Plus | Riverside | 1961 | |
1961-06-27, -29 1961-08-23, -24 | Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley | Capitol | 1962 | |
1962-01-12, -14 | The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York | Riverside | 1962 | Live |
1962-08-04, -05 | Cannonball in Europe! | Riverside (Europe) | 1964 | Live |
1962-09-22, -23 | Jazz Workshop Revisited | Riverside | 1962 | Live |
1962-12-07, -10, -11 | Cannonball's Bossa Nova | Riverside | 1963 | |
1963-07-09, -14, -15 | Nippon Soul | Riverside | 1963 | Live |
1963-07-09, -14, -15 | Autumn Leaves | Riverside (Japan) | 1975 | Live |
1962-09-21 1963-07-09, -14 | The Sextet | Milestone | 1982 | Live |
1964-07-31 – 1964-08-02 | Cannonball Adderley Live! | Capitol | 1964 | Live |
1962-09-19 1964-10-04 | Live Session! – with Ernie Andrews | Capitol | 1964 | Live |
1964-10-19 – -21 | Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler on the Roof | Capitol | 1964 | |
1965-04-26 | Domination – with orchestra conducted by Oliver Nelson | Capitol | 1965 | |
1966-03-18, -19, -20 | Money in the Pocket | Capitol | 2005 | Live |
1966-04-06, -07 | Great Love Themes – with strings conducted by Ray Ellis | Capitol | 1966 | |
1966-08-26 | Cannonball in Japan | Capitol | 1966 | Live |
1966-10-20 | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at "The Club" | Capitol | 1967 | Live |
1967-03-06, -23 | Why Am I Treated So Bad! | Capitol | 1967 | |
1967-06-12 1967-07-24 | 74 Miles Away | Capitol | 1967 | |
1966-06-15, -22 1967-10-06, -13 | Swingin' In Seattle, Live At The Penthouse | Reel to Real | 2019 | Live |
1967-12 1968-01 | Radio Nights | Night/Virgin | 1990 | Live |
1968-09-23 1968-10-07 | In Person – with Lou Rawls and Nancy Wilson | Capitol | 1968 | |
1968-10-13, -14 | Accent on Africa | Capitol | 1968 | |
1969-12 or 1970-01 | Country Preacher | Capitol | 1970 | Live |
1969-03-20 | Liederhalle Stuttgart March 20, 1969 | Jazzhaus | 2012 | Live |
1970-06 | The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra aka Experience in E | Capitol | 1970 | |
1970 | Love, Sex, and the Zodiac | Fantasy | 1974 | |
1970-09-19 1970-10-05, -06 | The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free | Capitol | 1970 | Partially live |
1970 | The Happy People | Capitol | 1972 | Live |
1971-08-03 – 09 | The Black Messiah | Capitol | 1971 | Live |
1972 | Music You All | Capitol | 1976 | Live |
1973-06-04 | Inside Straight | Fantasy | 1973 | Live |
1974 | Pyramid | Fantasy | 1974 | |
1975-02 – 1975-04 | Phenix | Fantasy | 1975 | |
1975-06-24, -25, -30 | Lovers | Fantasy | 1976 | |
1975 | Big Man: The Legend of John Henry | Fantasy | 1975 | [2LP] |
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at "The Club" is a 1967 live in-studio album by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, the jazz group formed by musician Cannonball Adderley. It received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance – Group or Soloist with Group in 1967, and was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2021.
A Portrait of Thelonious is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released on Columbia in 1965, featuring a session recorded at Studio Charlot in Paris on December 17, 1961, with Pierre Michelot on bass and Kenny Clarke on drums. The session was the second of two produced by Cannonball Adderley with Powell, following the A Tribute to Cannonball session recorded two days earlier.
Why Am I Treated So Bad! is an album by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, recorded at the Capitol Studios in Hollywood in 1967.
Nathaniel Adderley Jr. is an American pop and rhythm and blues music arranger and pianist who spent much of his music career arranging as music director for Luther Vandross tours and contributed as co-songwriter on most of Vandross's albums.
Presenting Cannonball is the 1955 debut album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, released on the Savoy label, featuring a quintet with Nat Adderley, Hank Jones, Paul Chambers, and Kenny Clarke. A 1994 Japanese CD release also included alternate takes of tracks from Adderley's recording debut previously released as Kenny Clarke's Bohemia After Dark (1955).
Sophisticated Swing is the fifth album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his fourth released on the EmArcy label, featuring performances with Nat Adderley, Junior Mance, Sam Jones and Jimmy Cobb. The front cover photograph was by Chuck Stewart taken at the Ulysses S. Grant Monument, Chicago, Illinois.
Cannonball Enroute is an album by the jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, released on the Mercury label, featuring performances with Nat Adderley, Junior Mance, Sam Jones, and Jimmy Cobb. The album was recorded in 1957 but would only be released in 1961.
Cannonball in Europe! is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Comblain-la-Tour in Belgium and released on the Capitol label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes.
Live Session! is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at Memory Lane, Los Angeles in 1962 and the Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach in 1964 and released on the Capitol label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes and vocalist Ernie Andrews.
Great Love Themes is an album recorded in April 1966 by jazz saxophonist Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley. It was released on the Capitol label featuring performances of ballads ― mostly Broadway show tunes ― by Cannonball Adderley with Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Lewis, Roy McCurdy, and with string arrangements by Ray Ellis. AllMusic awarded the album 1 star. The album was produced by Tom Morgan, rather than Adderley's usual producer, David Axelrod. According to Adderley's biographer, Cary Ginell, "Although Cannonball loved to play show tunes, the lush, watered-down arrangements did not excited listeners, who had long since wearied of the jazz-artist-with-strings formula. Axelrod recalled that Cannonball hated the album and convinced Capitol to let him go back to working with Axelrod from then on."
74 Miles Away is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded "live" before an invited audience at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California in 1967, and features performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Victor Gaskin and Roy McCurdy. Following these sessions, it would be almost a year before Cannonball Adderley recorded again, a significant sign that the slump in jazz fortunes of the later 1960s had begun.
Accent on Africa is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded in 1968 for the Capitol label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley and unidentified percussion section, vocalists, and big band.
African Waltz is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, released on the Riverside label and performed by Adderley with an orchestra conducted by Ernie Wilkins. The title track had been a UK hit single for Johnny Dankworth.
The Black Messiah is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, California in 1971 featuring performances by Adderley's Quintet with Nat Adderley, George Duke, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy with guest appearances by Airto Moreira, Mike Deasy, Ernie Watts, Alvin Batiste, and Buck Clarke. After many years of being out of print, The Black Messiah was reissued in 2014 by Real Gone Music; the new 2CD reissue included liner notes by music journalist/blogger Bill Kopp.
Inside Straight is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California in 1973 featuring performances by Adderley's Quintet with Nat Adderley, Hal Galper, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy with guest percussionist King Errisson.
Pyramid is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California in 1974 featuring performances by Adderley's Quintet with Nat Adderley, Hal Galper, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy with guest appearances by Phil Upchurch, George Duke, and Jimmy Jones.
Phenix is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded in 1975 at the Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California, featuring performances by Adderley's Quintet with Nat Adderley, keyboardist Michael Wolff, bassist Walter Booker and drummer Roy McCurdy with guest percussionist Airto Moreira and past Quintet members keyboardist George Duke, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Louis Hayes guesting on select tracks. The program essentially consists of energetic new arrangements of the Quintet's best known pieces from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, including Nat Adderley's “Work Song”.
Introducing Nat Adderley is an album by jazz cornetist Nat Adderley first released on the Wing label featuring performances by Adderley and his brother Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Horace Silver, Paul Chambers, and Roy Haynes. The album was later released on the Emarcy label and also rereleased on the Limelight label as Them Adderleys
To the Ivy League from Nat is an album by jazz cornetist Nat Adderley released on the EmArcy label featuring performances by Adderley with his brother Cannonball Adderley, Junior Mance, Sam Jones/Al McKibbon, and Charles "Specs" Wright with arrangements by Ernie Wilkins. The album was later released as part of the Cannonball Adderley compilation Sophisticated Swing: The EmArcy Small Group Sessions in 1995.