Facts: - instrument: alto saxophone , soprano saxophone - death place: gary , indiana , united states - years active: 1955 & ndash ; 1975 - caption: cannonball -lrb- left -rrb- and nat adderley in 1966 - birth name: julian edwin adderley - label: blue riverside note , fantasy , capitol , prestige , - death date: 8 august 1975 - genre: hard jazz rock bop , soul jazz , modal jazz , - birth date: 15 september 1928 - name: cannonball adderley - image size: 240px - background: non_vocal_instrumentalist - image: julian and nat adderley 1966.jpg - birth place: tampa , florida , united states - associated acts: nat yusef lateef , sam jones , joe zawinul , louis adderley hayes , bobby timmons , bill evans , miles davis , george duke , - occupation: teacher , saxophonist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of cannonball adderley .
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julian edwin '' cannonball '' adderley -lrb- september 15 , 1928 -- august 8 , 1975 -rrb- was a jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s .adderley is remembered for his 1966 single '' mercy mercy mercy '' , a crossover hit on the pop charts , and for his work with trumpeter miles davis , including on the epochal album '' kind of blue '' -lrb- 1959 -rrb- .he was the brother of jazz cornetist nat adderley , a longtime member of his band .