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A cover version by the Buckinghams also reached 5 on the charts.

He was the elder brother of jazz trumpeter Nat Adderley, who was a longtime member of his band.

One of his known addresses in New York was in the neighborhood of Corona, Queens.

He left Florida originally to seek graduate studies at New York conservatories, but one night in 1955 he brought his saxophone with him to the Caf Bohemia.

Cannonball was asked to sit in with Oscar Pettiford in place of his bands regular saxophonist, who was late for the gig.

The buzz on the New York jazz scene after Adderleys performance announced him as the heir to the mantle of Charlie Parker.

He was noticed by Miles Davis, and it was because of his blues-rooted alto saxophone that Davis asked him to play with his group.

He joined the Davis band in October 1957, three months prior to the return of John Coltrane to the group.

Some of Daviss finest trumpet work can be found on Adderleys solo album Somethin Else (also featuring Art Blakey and Hank Jones ), which was recorded shortly after the two giants met.

Adderley then played on the seminal Davis records Milestones and Kind of Blue.

This period also overlapped with pianist Bill Evans time with the sextet, an association that led to Evans appearing on Portrait of Cannonball and Know What I Mean.

In 1961, Cannonball narrated The Childs Introduction to Jazz, released on Riverside Records.

In 1962, Cannonball married actress Olga James.

Cannonballs first quintet was not very successful; 12 however, after leaving Davis group, he formed another group again with his brother.

The new quintet, which later became the Cannonball Adderley Sextet, and Cannonballs other combos and groups, included such noted musicians as saxophonists Charles Lloyd and Yusef Lateef, pianists Bobby Timmons, Barry Harris, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul, Hal Galper, Michael Wolff, and George Duke, bassists Ray Brown, Sam Jones, Walter Booker, and Victor Gaskin, and drummers Louis Hayes and Roy McCurdy.

In this period, he released albums such as Accent on Africa (1968) and The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (1970).

In that same year, his quintet appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival in California, and a brief scene of that performance was featured in the 1971 psychological thriller Play Misty for Me, starring Clint Eastwood.

Cannonball Adderley Somethin Else Rar Series Kung Fu

In 1975 he also appeared in an acting role alongside Jos Feliciano and David Carradine in the episode Battle Hymn in the third season of the TV series Kung Fu.

A cover version of Pops Staples Why (Am I Treated So Bad) also entered the charts.

His instrumental Sack o Woe was arranged by Herbie Mann on their debut album.

He was 46 years old.

He was survived by his wife Olga James Adderley, parents Julian C.

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Jazz.com. Retrieved December 13, 2012.

When the trolley tour proceeds, Mr.

Knight points out the nearby Dorie Miller Houses, a co-op apartment complex in Corona where Clark Terry and Cannonball and Nat Adderley lived and where saxophonist Jimmy Heath still resides.

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