Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley

Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley

by Cary Ginell
Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley

Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley

by Cary Ginell

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Overview

(Book). Cannonball Adderley introduces his 1967 recording of "Walk Tall," by saying, "There are times when things don't lay the way they're supposed to lay. But regardless, you're supposed to hold your head up high and walk tall." This sums up the life of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, a man who used a gargantuan technique on the alto saxophone, pride in heritage, devotion to educating youngsters, and insatiable musical curiosity to bridge gaps between jazz and popular music in the 1960s and '70s. His career began in 1955 with a Cinderella-like cameo in a New York nightclub, resulting in the jazz world's looking to him as "the New Bird," the successor to the late Charlie Parker. But Adderley refused to be typecast. His work with Miles Davis on the landmark Kind of Blue album helped further his reputation as a unique stylist, but Adderley's greatest fame came with his own quintet's breakthrough engagement at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop in 1959, which launched the popularization of soul jazz in the 1960s. With his loyal brother Nat by his side, along with stellar sidemen, such as keyboardist Joe Zawinul, Adderley used an engaging, erudite personality as only Duke Ellington had done before him. All this and more are captured in this engaging read by author Cary Ginell. "Hipness is not a state of mind, it is a fact of life." Cannonball Adderley

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781458419798
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Publication date: 02/01/2013
Series: Hal Leonard Jazz Biography Series
Pages: 190
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Quincy Jones ix

Preface Dan Morgenstern xi

Introduction xiii

1 Cannibal 1

2 A New York Minute 9

3 The New Bird 15

4 Milestone 27

5 Cannonball on a Roll 33

6 Kind of Blue 43

7 Cannonball Takes Charge 51

8 Spontaneous Combustion 57

9 Work Song 65

10 A Very Important Cat 75

11 Onska 83

12 Olga 93

13 The Cannonball Express 99

14 An Assault on the Tyranny of Style 105

15 The Club 115

16 "Welcome to Club Capitol" 119

17 Accent on Africa 129

18 Country Preacher 135

19 The Black Messiah 143

20 As Ambient as All Hell 147

21 With His Hammer in His Hand 151

22 Big Man 161

Acknowledgments 163

Sources 165

Discography 169

Index 173

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