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“There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.”

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Cannonball Adderley

Interviewed by the "Chicago SEED", November 1968

“A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!”

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Cannonball Adderley

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“I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.”

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Cannonball Adderley

Interviewed by the "Chicago SEED", November 1968