Title: Cannonball Adderley
Content: Florida, Adderley moved to New York in 1955. His nickname derived from "cannibal," a title imposed on him by high school colleagues as a tribute to his voracious appetite. Cannonball moved to Tallahassee, when his parents obtained teaching positions at Florida A&M University. Both Cannonball and brother Nat played with Ray Charles when Charles lived in Tallahassee during the early 1940s. Adderley moved to Broward County, Florida, in 1948 after finishing his music studies at Florida A&M and became the band director at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, a position which he held until 1950. Cannonball was a local

Title: Cannonball Adderley
Content: Cannonball Adderley Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Adderley is remembered for his 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", a crossover hit on the pop charts (it was also covered by The Buckinghams). He worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, on his own 1958 "Somethin' Else" album, and on the seminal Davis records "Milestones" (1958) and "Kind of Blue" (1959). He was the older brother of jazz trumpeter Nat Adderley, a longtime member of his band. Originally from Tampa,

Title: Cannonball Adderley
Content: legend in Southeast Florida until he moved to New York City in 1955. 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 Café Bohemia. Asked to sit in with Oscar Pettiford in place of his band's regular saxophonist, who was late for the gig, the "buzz" on the New York jazz scene after Adderley's performance announced him as the heir to the mantle of Charlie Parker. Adderley formed his

Title: Nat Adderley
Content: everything that the character played. His other significant project during this time was a musical. He and his brother wrote "Shout Up a Morning" based on the folk hero John Henry. While this project started as a collaboration, work was interrupted when Cannonball died from a stroke. After Cannonball's death in 1975, the quintet broke up. Nat Adderley toured Europe as a headliner. He toured Japan, then returned to the U.S. and taught courses at Harvard while performing and recording with his quintet, which included Walter Booker, Jimmy Cobb, and Vincent Herring. Adderley established a name for himself away from

Title: Nat Adderley
Content: his younger years, and he passed down his trumpet to Cannonball. When Cannonball picked up the alto saxophone, he passed the trumpet to Nat, who began playing in 1946. He and Cannonball played with Ray Charles in the early 1940s in Tallahassee and in amateur gigs around the area. Adderley attended Florida University, majoring in sociology with a minor in music. He switched to cornet in 1950. From 1951–1953 he served in the army and played in the army band under his brother, taking at least one tour of Korea before returning to a station in the United States. After

Question: What were the first two names of 'Cannonball' Adderley?
Answer: Julian Edwin