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...Adderly, brother of the late jazz saxaphonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, and Leonard Feather, a music critic and jazz historian, began a week-long stay at North House yesterday. They are the first performers to participate in the "Cannonball" Adderley Artists in Residence program...
...Adderley and Feather will lecture on "The Development of Jazz in America" Wednesday evening and conduct a tribute to Cannonball Adderley Thursday evening. Both lecturers, which are open to the public without charge, will be held in Hilles Library auditorium...
Died. Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley, 46, lyrical, driving jazz saxophonist; of a heart attack, 25 days after suffering a paralyzing stroke on his way to a gig; in Gary, Ind. Son of a Florida musician who weaned him on jazz, Adderley arrived in New York in 1955 with a quintet that included his brother Nat on the cornet. First billed as the heir apparent to Altoist Charlie ("Bird") Parker, Adderley became more eclectic as he forged his own musical identity with Miles Davis' group from 1957-59 and later with his own revived quintet. His playful bantering with audiences...
...Messiah came into being-but one wonders. Rarely has so much conceit, commercial cynicism, bad taste, musical ignorance and all-round incompetence been brought together within the grooves of a single LP. Written and arranged by Producer David Axelrod (Electric Prunes), conducted by the jazz world's Cannonball Adderley, the RCA Messiah has something to offend everyone. For lovers of vocal style, there is singing that would not pass muster in the 1950s-parody group Sha-Na-Na. For devotees of pure rock, there is numbingly dreary rhythm and somnolent guitar work. For connoisseurs of modesty, there is this...
...bona fide curriculums; the University of Utah has just instituted a Ph.D. in jazz composition. As recently as 1967, only one U.S. college-North Texas State-offered a major in jazz. This year ten colleges are awarding jazz degrees. Other schools offer swinging seminars by guest "professors" like Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry and Billy Taylor who discuss such vital matters as the trumpet lip trill and, almost as important, how to sign a contract...