A few seconds past the five-minute mark in "So What," the opening track of Miles Davis's masterpiece album Kind of Blue, an alto sax moves to the front of the mix. The artist behind that solo was ...

Alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball Adderley led one of the most popular groups in jazz in the early '60s. So popular, in fact, that for three-and-a-half years his usual band, a quintet, was expanded ...

Good morning everybody…and Happy Diwali. So we here at CrossFade give readers a taste of the old-school every week with Throwback Tuesdays. This week, we’re throwing it way back and including a local ...

Julian (“Cannonball”) Adderley is a jazzman with a nagging, but not unique, problem: the more successful he becomes, the less his original, far-out fans like him. One of his recent albums, The ...

This is the second in a four-part, weekly series in which RedEye profiles Chicago artists who are going old-school by creating unique sounds with instruments often left out of contemporary popular ...

Dutch drummer Eric Ineke has just released a tremendously exciting new album that is easily one of my favorites—Swing Street—Plays The Music of Cannonball Adderley (Timeless). It's a gorgeous tribute ...

It is said that the piano is the fundamental instrument of jazz; however, it is also evident that as jazz music evolved the significance of other musical instruments became noticeable and the ...