finetune artist: Cannonball Adderley

Cannonball Adderley's blues-soaked tone and swinging delivery on alto sax stood out immediately when he arrived in New York in 1955. He joined the Miles Davis Quintet a few years later and appeared on the seminal KIND OF BLUE album. While many were searching for new forms during the '60s, Adderley, in a quintet with his brother Nat, stuck wholeheartedly to a gospel-tinged soul-blues style. The group's hits, such as 1967's "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," pushed jazz closer to rock without compromising the music's spirit, a trend Adderley would carry on through the fusion-drenched '70s.

Listen to Cannonball Adderley at Finetune.

(2008) A Little Taste
(2006) Why Am I Treated So Bad!
(2006) Spontaneous Combustion - The Explosive Cannonball Adderley
(2006) Things Are Getting Better
(2006) Know What I Mean?
(2006) Pyramid
(2006) Discoveries
(2006) Riverside Profiles: Cannonball Adderley
(2006) Phenix
(2006) Greatest Hits
(2006) What Is This Thing Called Soul?
(2005) Cannonball In Europe
(2005) Domination
(2005) Money In The Pocket
(2005) Timeless Cannonball Adderley
(2005) Cannonball Enroute
(2004) Live Session!
(2004) Cannonball Plays Zawinul
(2004) Cannonball Takes Charge
(2004) The Best Of Cannonball Adderley: The Capitol Years
(2004) Cannonball's Bossa Nova
(2003) Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
(2002) Ballads
(2001) Cannonball Adderley's Finest Hour
(1999) Ultimate Cannonball Adderley
(1999) Somethin' Else (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
(1995) Sophisticated Swing: The EmArcy Small-Group Sessions
(1995) And Strings/Jump For Joy
(1994) Jazz Masters 31
(1959) Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco

Mercy Mercy Mercy
Work Song
Autumn Leaves (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (1999 Digital Remaster)
Willow Weep For Me
Bohemia After Dark