Introduction to Bop - Cannonball Adderley Plays Monk

[ImaniHekima]

Cannonball's ballad playing is something else. His tone here sounds like a human voice.

[theinvisiblelight]

Shit, on Adderleys tune the brothers are killing it! Love Nat's first phrase.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@theinvisiblelight only one word - awesome

[theinvisiblelight]

@JazzVideoGuy I might say blistering :p

[saxophobe]

I wish they would have shown his hands on the second chorus of Cannonball's solo, when he really steps on the gas! 8-)

[taguirre007]

Just love this, thanks for posting. Nat sounded great as well. Long live Cannonball

[TeXas10er]

WOW!!! It's all about 8:00mins Cannon's solo was ridiculous!!!

[teapartyrich]

Nice Mic job : ) For the time, they really captured the performance with a nice sound!

Great performance by Cannonball as always!

[ThemThems]

i wish my name was cannonball adderley.

[queekers]

What an intelligent show - could you imagine MTV having a show like this?????

[TaylorGuitarsPlayer]

@queekers Can't imagine MTV doing this, but PBS on the other hand....

[BNforever2009]

Glad i grew up listening to my fathers jazz albums. Cannonball was in his collection, still is!

[BlueinGreen2]

Nat's solo is actually perfect. Shame Cannonball destroys him by imitating his last line.

[ricardomoyano]

@BlueinGreen2

destroyin' what ?

they are all great.

[ricardomoyano]

@BlueinGreen2



destroyin' what ?

they are all great.

all the best

[gtr1359]

@BlueinGreen2 its a common practise, and would have carried no malice. A player would offer the last phrase of his solo to the next guy, who would use it as a starting point for his solo.

[BlueinGreen2]

@gtr1359 Hahahaha I know! I was just making reference to the fact that Cannonball is an incredible player and (in my eyes) the perfectness of Nat's solo was ruined by Cannonball showing us how good his ears are.

[zbalder14]

@BlueinGreen2 thats good rather than bad... cannonball is listening to what nat is playing... thats what you're supposed to do on the bandstand

[BlueinGreen2]

The power of that sound in his entry at 4.09. Breathtaking.

[claudthornhill]

So under appreciated, it hurts!

[torrentjeff]

00:09, 00:17, 00:39, 00:48 this dude has THE most epic faces in history xD!

[MrAfter10]

0:00 to skip advert

[takkukah]

PRESIESSS DIT<,,,,,,,,,,

[UmbrellaFitzgerald]

this makes me get drunk and beat my wife

[airforcejim]

Absolutely stellar. Beautiful. The opening slow number featuring Adderley was incredible. Whoever preserved this video and uploaded it did the world a great service.

[TheDirteeSanchez]

Cannonball is so high on weed during the interview LoL

[Hoffletrof456]

@TheDirteeSanchez I'd believe those guys knew how to party

[smkonwater23]

so awesome..thanks for posting this. I don't listen to much jazz...but I do respect Coltrane, Bird Parker, Mingus, Monk for their talent...and even genius.

[Regis1Holster]

Thanks for posting this. I am wild about Cannonball, and to hear him on this show is terrific. Not only a fantastic performer, but so articulate and knowledgeable.

[unchato]

lacking emotion? doesn't feel like that.

[unchato]

@fuben0 yes the thing is, the host says that this type of music lacks emotion, I don't think that is true

[fuben0]

@unchato: this version of round midnight doesn't sound that sad and tragically as many other versions, but there is so much hope expressed in it. Love it...

[sethsbone]

sickkk

[findingarainbow]

ooooh haha you wrote all the names of the musicians in the description i missed that earlier haha lol sorry about that thank you for doing that and again for the video music appreciated

[findingarainbow]

Ahhh thats sooo cool first a great piece by Monk then a great piece Adderley wrote with Samuel (Sam) Jones the great bassist i dig every instrument's part they dont show who is playing the bass hardly at all does anyone know who all the musicians are other than of course the maestro Adderley? i'll research if i find out i will post it. this is sublime, thank you for posting, sharing this great music, cool little TV special with great preformances and sincere dialogue. Jazz including bebop :)

[findingarainbow]

Ahhh thats sooo cool first a great piece by Monk then a great piece Adderley wrote it with Samuel (Sam) Jones the great bassist i dig every instrument's part they dont show who is playing the bass hardly at all does anyone know who all the musicians are other than of course the maestro Adderley? i'll research if i find out i will post it. this is sublime, thank you for posting, sharing this great music, cool little TV special with great preformances and sincere dialogue. Jazz including bebop :)

[mcgruppian]

who is the guitarist? kenny burrell? watch him put out his cigarette while taylor takes his solo. those were the days:)

[guitarcolossus]

supernatural phrasing. Cannonball kills this.

[deetetive]

the name of the last tune is "round midnight".

check out the record "round about midnight", by miles davis.

man, this is song is simply overwhelming.

[theblademaster01]

@deetetive

No, I mean the composition Adderley mad at the end. I know Round Midnight. Thanks anyways.

[BeatBay]

wow, who is the guitarplayer? i really love his chops. thx for uploading, my friend!

[rayjr62]

@BeatBayMundell Lowe

[BeatBay]

@rayjr62 thank you very much

[theblademaster01]

What is the song called at the end actually?

[toomanypup]

@theblademaster

YES WHAT THE NAME OF THE TUNE?

[theblademaster01]

@toomanypup

The name of the tune at the start is Bebop. I think by Dizzy Gillespie.

I just don't know what the name at the end is.

[scomdnz9]

@theblademaster01 Jeannie (last tune)

[theblademaster01]

@scomdnz9

Thanks man, I really appriciate it.

[scomdnz9]

@theblademaster01 no probalo. for a while i thought it was called Genie.

[Tobiashreese]

Style & Excellence.

[toomanypup]

ANYBODY-WHAT IS THE OPEN TUNE??

[theblademaster01]

@toomanypup

It's called bebop.

[castillopetruzzi]

i love how they used to talk

[jon93099]

someone can tell me that mouthpiece used cannonball?

[univibe23]

Those nine people who gave this a thumbs down must be Justin Bee'berrr' fans who stumbled on this by mistake!

The sound of REAL music must hurt their ears!!

[JUSfr34k]

@univibe23

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D YES IT MUST BE!

[lovesGenet]

It is natural (human)to hear a key center or at least the ear will search: given a shape and pitches. Schoenberg took tonality further de-centralizing key centers. Later with serialism he posited a method . i like that: 3 chords for a thousand and a thousand chords for a room. that is jazz! Music can be very difficult to follow when harmonies are not pronounced. SunRa etclike Bach's polyphony .We get many lines but they may not be in same time or key. WONDERFUL!

[niklas8989]

Listening to Jazz takes two things:

#1, being able to hear and define a tonal key center.

#2 being able to hear when someone is playing "outside" of the key.

Since #1 #2 is impossible to most mainstream pop-audience, then understanding the intentions of most jazzplayers is almost impossible...

[Frisbieinstein]

@niklas8989

Oh, most people can identify a tonal center. It's when the center moves rapidly with sketchy definition that most people get lost.

The rock band plays three chords for 1000 people. The jazz band plays 1000 chords for ....

[myrridin]

@niklas8989 I disagree and agree. Listening to jazz does take two things - at least one ear to absorb the sound, and a brain to decode the signal.

[bondiga10]

@niklas8989 Well being a musician for 19 years and with a proud "anti-pop" ear- I'd like to think I could understand enough....

[josephredbagger]

so great so wonderful...such musicianship...just great!!

[howlowcanyoublow]

Oh man, this is sooooo good! The whole band sound great, that rhythm section is so swingin'. Cannonball ...genius

[holygroove2]

Funny how the focus was on Cannonball Adderley b/c he was thought of as Bird II, yet I really like Nat's playing here and Jimmy Cleveland is killin it.  Sooo cool that these videos are out.

[slyme1711]

Julian was the bomb alright.

[Dedalusalley]

What is the piece from 1:02 to 1:56 ?

[ayerpbmore]

a tune called "Bebop"

[1saxoservidor]

@Dedalusalley the name of this piece is BE BOP by Dizzy Guillespie

[arneal]

While they each had/have their own styles, two of my favorite altoists, Cannonball and Phil Woods, each was shaped by different aspects of Bird. And to the poster who lumped Sanborn in with Everett Harp and Candy Dulfer, I would say you sell Sanborn much too short. But, that's just me.

[VJSco]

8:38 O que ele fez no trombone? LOL

[thomaski]

check out dutch pianist peter beets, bop lives!

[laughingtiger123]

The greatest alto player ever...

[heru1966]

Damn, Cannonball's playing of Round Midnight is najestic.

[TrifeMusic]

@heru1966

 majazztic :)

[heru1966]

@TrifeMusic That's the one ;-)

[gringochucha]

It's incredible how the quality of the recording doesn't detract from the beauty of the music. In fact, sometimes it even adds to it.

[chayjazz]

And don't forget the late Ed Thigpen on drums...classic

[BNforever2009]

All i can say is, if it wasnt for my father, i wouldnt have known jazz, esp bebop!!!

[Tizmo0]

shyea, thank god for growin up with jazz in the house

[gringochucha]

amen to that

[budlives]

Bird's music influenced so many, and still does. These greats heard Charlie Parker and new the real deal. They can't be fooled. I hope these giants influence us to listen to more Bird, and more Bop in general.

God bless Cannonball, Billy Taylor and all the giants. To me, the pianist who continues to explore the trails blazed by Bird, Bud and Monk and has in my opinion, extended the language, is the great Barry Harris. Fortunately for us all, he's a great educator too. Bop Lives!!

[scoggles]

Does anyone else think that Nat and Jimmy stole the show?

[naturaltoby]

Mundell Lowe stops playing, grabs a cigarette from his headstock, takes a drag and continues playing!....now that's cool!!

[lasdrof7]

I saw the Canonball Adderley group in England(Manchester) sometime in the 60`s.On tenor was Charles Lloyd who was not too well known back then.Enough to say the concert is remembered.

[theelder987]

the drums sound great :D

[holygroove2]

It's so funny to hear the political backlash over the style back in that day - I can see people dancing to this b/c Cannonball had all that soul coming out. Gotta say again, that it's wonderful to see footage of Jimmy Clevland - especially playing with Cannonbal.

[dimfifth]

What is the song at 1:11 (the first song).

The song is unbelievably brilliant!

[JazzSteps]

Bebop

[dimfifth]

Thanks a lot!

[JazzSteps]

by Charlie Parker

[solostrad]

Bebob by dizzy gillespie

i concur

[PatrickManzecchi]

@ dimfith: the tune is called "Bebop".

[albertrombone]

Jimmy Cleveland is absolutely uncredible!

[HenryHallsGuestNight]

Where are the Johhny Hodges on today? Adept, lyrical, swinging like blazes...and in all registers.

[coldwar1952]

How fortunate we are recordings such as this exist, to purely enjoy, and from which to learn. Todays alto players, Sanborn, Dulfer, Harp, 100 others ad nauseum, seem only to know the highest register of this instrument, and spend all their recorded time there, screaming and splitting reeds. The warmth of delivery and scale selection heard here, either by design or improvised, simply leaves me wanting more and more. I fear the real use of the alto saxophone as a solo instrument, is lost today.

[charliefdom]

What a nice thing to see Cannonball going through those 'round midnight chords like flowing through water...and also paying his respects to Bird...

Great video!!!

[edjameschow]

He's a God.

[alexjrmarino]

JAZZ is the natural music.... thousands and hundreds of years people just played anything they have heard or are teached by someone...and sheet music is written for 500-600 hundred years.. If you read wikipedia for classical composers the use of improvisation is very very important and valued by Beethoven Mozart and so on....till the recordings went on from the 20th century ;)

[kotekotekitty]

very important to improvise but its more important to understand why something that you improvised sounds a certain way (with theory) because then you can apply it to any bassline/progression/chord/sca­le/arpeggio or chord ect

[SuperSaxmaster]

Why don't people understand jazz? I'm a rising jazz musician, and there is a lot to be learned before you can call yourself a jazz musician.

[skinnypenguin3]

If you knew anything about music, you would realize how much knowledge and virtuosity is needed to play music like this.

As for jazz being created because "slaves couldn't read music properly:

A. Jazz was created after the Civil War by free men, and

B. I'm pretty sure that Cannonball Adderley and most other jazz pioneers could sight-read your ass into the ground.

[retroafro98]

most definitely! Cannonball was a high school music teacher.

[queekers]

I've never heard of jazz being created because slaves couldn't read music properly. Wow, whoever thinks that need to take a jazz history class or something!

[lakesidelivin]

@skinnypenguin3 From what I've read, at least a few of the Jazz greats couldn't read music, but played by ear. They learned how to play by listening to records of other musicians and radio. Certainly site reading has nothing to do with creative ability. I can site read very well, but I can't improvise a solo worth a darn.

[HAMayoral]

@lakesidelivin Cool, cause I suck at sight reading like hell... I got to practice, but I can rip out a nice solo to any (tonal) tune you give me.

[saron380]

@lakesidelivin Miles, Mingus, Bird, Shotner, Garner, Tatum, Trane, Cannonball, Dizzy, and more could read,



[austin81994]

@skinnypenguin3 you pretty much got that right, except that there was not any true creator of jazz or any other genre of music for that matter. music evolves and there is no one point in time where some genre of music is created. However there are some very important places in which characteristic qualities came into play for instance the transfer into the bebop movement in jazz.

[amd77j]

@skinnypenguin3 Amen!!! Jazz is African-American CLASSICAL music!!!

[briandee]

@skinnypenguin3

That's the truth if I ever heard it.

And I've come across musicians who don't know much about reading music, but this whole notion of "reading" has very little to do with how talented you are with music. Unlike the languages we use in everyday life, music is a language where the only skill needed is the skill to "speak"; that is, to make sound. So yeah, most musicians of this caliber can read. And there are even some who can't, but who cares if they can't :D

[ryanlk]

@skinnypenguin3 Being able to read and having incredible knowledge in music theory are not at all related. Many, many great Jazz player can hardly read anything, including many people you would assume could, Coltrane, Parker, Monk, Scofield, couldn't read well. Others like Miles, Bill Evans, Michael Brecker, could read extremely well, it just depends on the player, but all of them got to where they needed to get regardless wether or not they could "read" music.

[blah148]

@ryanlk Coltrane and Bird were definitely very fine sight readers. You've gotta remember that in those days, during the recording sessions, they'd show up, hand out the sheet music, count off the rhythm and usually do the first take. Bird would have to be a pretty damn good reader to take stuff like Groovin' High and Tunisia on the first or second take, not to mention the fact that during his 14hr practise-era he studied Stravinsky scores all the time...

[JUSfr34k]

@blah148

wow i never knew that !

[blunt1]

@ryanlk Not related at all is a big stretch. They still knew music theory. That is a fact. They knew the wrong notes because they knew the right ones.

[Guitfiddlejase]

@skinnypenguin3 BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[xatzidakis]

hahahah you are a piece of shit who siply doesn't understand music in general...music has to make you think not only pleasure easily your ears while drinking...

[kotekotekitty]

it does need to sound good tho (even when your drunk xatzidakis)

[fireblossom2u]

Heart and Mind. Jullian is the man.

[SensenmannSensenmann]

his solo on monk's tune is just incredible

(4:11 to 6:13) this man has the exactest timing I've ever heard! Listen also to his solo on "flamenco sketches" (Kind Of Blue) alternate take!!!

[zivley]

you can all say what you want, and I know bird was a monster on the alto, but I personally enjoy much more listening to Cannonball! I can "chew" it better

[videostan]

@zivley I know what you mean. Perhaps another way to put it, Parker was a wounded soul, Cannon was a joyful soul.

[JazzVideoGuy]

@videostan Well put.

[zivley]

@videostan you've got it right!

[BNforever2009]

To me, Cannonball has that bluesy soul in his jazz solos. Love that.

[TrueFan1947]

I saw him live at Shelley's Manhole in Hollywood in the mid 1960's, sat 10 feet away and just was transported to another world. Joe Zawinul was with him at that time. WOW! Cannonball and Nat!

[XILLIAIN]

amazing tone

[XILLIAIN]

yes

[mdavisable]

SO much feeling!

[amrob]

whats the name of the ballad 4:00?

[petergun57]

Hi amrod, 4:00 song is Round About Midnight (Thelonious Monk)

[XxSaxCannon921xX]

Round Midnight

[dcmurphy1515]

My Mom dated Cannonball Adderley! I guess she was a Jazz groupie! My dad roomed with Dizzy in the early days. My Mom dated Dizzy a few times - one day he came home late and My mom met my dad. The rest is history... Marriage and Me!

[Timotheedle]

way cool, man!

[fedesax73]

Your mom is cool! You must be proud of her!

[lakesidelivin]

@dcmurphy1515 Was your dad a musician?

[ulysax1979]

@dcmurphy1515 wow, if that is a real strory, it is actually facinating. did your dad play jazz too???

[cormballs]

@dcmurphy1515 HAHA your moms a tramp

[austin81994]

@dcmurphy1515 That is unreal. i wish i was you. haha. not really, but that is really cool if it is true. were your parents musicians, and are you?

[JUSfr34k]

@dcmurphy1515

COOL

[SPHINXMENREECE]

A PHI A 06!!

[confoozled3737]

Man, talk about a tight band. Especially playing "Be Bop" at the beginning.

[Jedum]

oh how i love Cannonball's sound so much!!!

[Fr3derick]

Great video!!

Grandma mary

[wonekawa]

iTunes just released the "I Love Jazz" series and it's FREE and AWESOME! Check it out!

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Why isn't more "The Subject is Jazz" footage made public!? I want to see the Lion! I only got to see a bit of him in Ken burns Documentary.

[jasonleos]

billy tylor n malon on guitar... there will never b anothere u

wow

[moonmanmort]

what a great version of 'round midnight. and i think that is jimmy cleveland on the bone

[bc2jazz]

that interviewer came off as an a-hole to me...the way he just sent Cannon off...."why dont you go and play" idk i might be lookin into it too much...lets not forget 1958....civil rights movement hadnt occured yet...interviewer could be a racist. who knows

[JazzVideoGuy]

He was just ill informed about the subject matter. He wasn't a racist, actually he was a cultural critic of sorts.  Well intentioned, but basically totally clueless about the music.

[MasterFebo]

agreed. I also think that he may have been simply running out of time and direction signaled to him to cut the conversation.

[heru1966]

@JazzVideoGuy I agree...the presenter is coming from a completely different mindset to the musicians. He's somewhat stuffy in his manner, that's all. Possibly because he's out of his depth. I felt he was basically trying to pin down and pigeonhole things in the music that don't neatly fit into rigid definitions.

[dreadtodred]

is that jimmy cleveland on the bone

[JazzVideoGuy]

Yes, the amazing Jimmy Cleveland.

[dreadtodred]

thanks jazz video guy,I wsnt too sure

[howlowcanyoublow]

All praise be to Cannonball !!

That was amazing...He swung so hard and the ideas and execution were and are still way way up there.

The way he embellished Round Midnight was awesome.

Thanks very much for posting

[coolmamac]

I saw Cannonball at a large jazz concert at the Opera House in Chicago. It was sheer delight.

[howlowcanyoublow]

I'm very jealous!! lol. I would have loved to have heard him in the flesh.

[pong224]

he's still alive?! Cannonball is STILL ALIVE?!

[JazzVideoGuy]

We wish he was. His music lives on, but Jullian Cannonball Adderley is no longer with us.

[PickleHead60]

'tard

[chogo888]

@pong224

nah sorry he died in 75

[geosax]

Same emotional reaction as below. Cannonball was a beautiful person as well as musician. It's special to be able to see and hear him speak. Thanks, JazzVideoGuy -- keep 'em coming!

[allenm74]

OMG I love you for putting this up! I never saw Cannonball on TV and he rocked! I memorized some of his solos as a kid growing up learning and loving jazz. Honestly I teared up a little, this was emotional for me, WOW thanx man:-)

[firenmusicman]

Wow. If I only heard but not seen this video I would have sworn that the trombone was valved.

[Stopitshutup]

Bravo to Cannon and the rest of the band. The warmth of his spirit came through in every note he played. TV used to be really cool.

[guitarrista321]

I second the tv comment especially

[bboywutang]

what is the name of the song the play at 1:06?

[JazzVideoGuy]

Bebop, a Dizzy Gillespie composition

[bboywutang]

thanks

[sotonemuel]

Yes the song is bebop...i have a recording where Dizzy plays it even faster! Thanks for posting!

[protocol66]

Man... Cannon had one of the best alto tones EVER. So beautiful, and his understanding of music theory and his insane musicality made him something special. What a gem.

[BuzzMcTank]

Thank you!

[ReverendNovember]

thx for these vids

[conn6m]

What I like about this is they are not buttering it up for the audience. 'If you don't get us that's tough for you' is the attitude. I hate it when Jazz musicians bring there music down to the level of the non jazz listener (like the smooth Jazz crowd)

Viva Cannonball for giving history such a great performance. However, you have just deflated my own performances to the level of the worm. Ahh well, it keeps us mere mortals in our place I suppose.

5* - sorry that's all I can give.

[FiddleJoon]

bam! What a great song (the second. round midnight is cool, too)

[quailb]

Anybody who likes this look up Flamingo by Cannonball... it's simply stunning.