Bohemia after dark cannonball adderley biography

The Seven Summer Sessions of 1955

Following their "discovery" at the Café Bohemia in June 1955, the Adderleys, and Cannonball in particular, became the talk of the town on the New York jazz scene. They were to record a total of five albums across seven studio dates over the following six weeks, as producers scrambled to sign up the new alto star. While the first of these, Savoy's "Bohemia After Dark", became a classic, the other mid-1955 sessions have been eclipsed by the Adderleys' later Quintet recordings. Let us revisit, then, the proceedings of those heady summer months, the first flush of one of jazz's greatest fraternal partnerships...

Session #1: "Bohemia After Dark" (Kenny Clarke Septet, Savoy)

NYC, June 28, 1955

Nat Adderley, cornet; Donald Byrd, trumpet; Cannonball Adderley, alto sax; Jerome Richardson, tenor sax, flute; Horace Silver, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Kenny Clarke, drums. Tracks: With Apologies to Oscar, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya, Willow Weep for Me, Bohemia After Dark, Chasm, Late Entry.

"The swing, excitement and informality that we've tried to impart on this record is but a small port

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