![]() “Well, he called him up to get rid of him and Cannonball sailed throughout the first couple of tunes, and then I went up and played, and two nights later, we had a job with that thing. But when Rouse recognised the man as Cannonball from gigs they played in Florida, fate intervened.Īccording to Nat Adderley, Rouse went back and told Oscar Pettiford that Cannonball didn’t want to lend his sax and, instead, wanted to play himself. Oscar spied a patron with a sax case and told Charlie to borrow his. Nat’s account of the evening was that alto saxophonist Charlie Rouse was asked to sit in with the ensemble but didn’t bring his horn. One evening, Cannonball and his brother, Nat Adderley, went to the Cafe Bohemia to listen to the Oscar Pettiford group. The year was 1955 and he was in New York to pursue a masters in music. What may sound like a scene from a Hollywood movie is a night that transformed Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley into a jazz saxophone legend.
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