Awards & Winners

Cannonball Adderley

Date of Birth 15-September-1928
Place of Birth Tampa
(Hillsborough County, Florida, United States of America, Area code 813)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Buckshot LeFonque, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Julian Adderley, Julian Cannonball Adderly, Cannonball Adderley Group, Cannonball Adderly, The Adderley Brothers, CannonballAdderley, Julian Edwin Adderley, Adderley, Cannonball, Cannonball Adderley and His Orchestra, Cannonball Adderley & Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans, The New Bird, Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley, Cannon
Profession Musician, Teacher, Saxophonist
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley 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. He was the brother of jazz cornetist Nat Adderley, a longtime member of his band.

Awards by Cannonball Adderley

Check all the awards nominated and won by Cannonball Adderley.

1967


Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Honored for : Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at The Club
(Artist)

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at \"The Club\"