The Legacy of
Greatness and Community
in Honor of the Birthday of
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley!
Sunday September 20, 2015 at 3 p.m.
The Dillard Center for the Performing Arts
2501 NW 11 Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311
The Old Dillard Museum will celebrate the birthday of Fort Lauderdale’s greatest band director, the late great saxophonist Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, at a concert featuring Nat Adderley, Jr., a nationally renowned jazz pianist who once was the music director and arranger for Luther Vandross. Nat, Jr. also is the nephew of Cannonball Adderley and wrote one of Cannonballs hits before he was a teenager. Nat contributed as co-songwriter on most of Vandross's albums.
The concert will be held at the school whose music program was once led by Cannonball Adderley. Between 1948 and 1956, the legendary Cannonball Adderley was a Broward County band director at Dillard High School. During Cannonball’s tenure he taught at both the historic Old Dillard site at 1009 NW 4th Street (now a museum on the National Register of Historic Sites), and the current home of Dillard High School at 2501 NW 11th Street. The Old Dillard Museum now hosts an annual concert series–the Cannonball Jazz Series–in honor of a saxophonist who became the most commercially successful jazz musician of his day.
The concert is scheduled for 3 p.m. September 20, 2015 at the Dillard Center for the Performing Arts 2501 NW 11th Street, Fort Lauderdale 33311. Tickets can be obtained at the Old Dillard Museum Website or at the door on the day of the concert. Call 754-322-0838 for more information. Doors open at 2:30 PM – Showtime: 3:00 PM
The concert will be held at the school whose music program was once led by Cannonball Adderley. Between 1948 and 1956, the legendary Cannonball Adderley was a Broward County band director at Dillard High School. During Cannonball’s tenure he taught at both the historic Old Dillard site at 1009 NW 4th Street (now a museum on the National Register of Historic Sites), and the current home of Dillard High School at 2501 NW 11th Street. The Old Dillard Museum now hosts an annual concert series–the Cannonball Jazz Series–in honor of a saxophonist who became the most commercially successful jazz musician of his day.
The concert is scheduled for 3 p.m. September 20, 2015 at the Dillard Center for the Performing Arts 2501 NW 11th Street, Fort Lauderdale 33311. Tickets can be obtained at the Old Dillard Museum Website or at the door on the day of the concert. Call 754-322-0838 for more information. Doors open at 2:30 PM – Showtime: 3:00 PM
MUSICIANS
Nat Adderley, Jr.: Nat Adderley, Jr. was born into a famed jazz family. He started playing piano as a child and had his first song, "I'm on My Way", recorded by his uncle Cannonball on the 1967 album Why Am I Treated So Bad! by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet when the young Nat Adderley was only 11 years old. Later, at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City Adderley met fellow student Luther Vandross, with whom he would later spend much of his musical career. He attended Yale University, graduating with a degree in African American studies.
While living in Houston, Texas, he was the music arranger for the 1981 album Never Too Much which became Vandross's first hit with the title track, which reached number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 and fourth on the dance charts. He continued working with Vandross, whom he called "a hilarious guy, a great employer, a great friend, and an incredible musician", until the singer's stroke in February 2003 that effectively ended his career. Adderley has returned to his jazz roots, performing his own works, as well as tributes to both his father and uncle. He cites his influences as Chick Corea, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk.
The Dillard Center for the Arts Jazz Band: Since 2004, Christopher Dorsey has been building the Jazz Program at Dillard Center for the Arts in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The band’s skill, style and swing has earned them First Place at Essentially Ellington in 2011 and 2012 and First Place at Swing Central in 2010, 2011 and 2012. DCA Jazz Ensemble is consistently represented in prestigious honor jazz ensembles at the district, state and national level. Our students have been selected into the All County Honor Jazz Bands, The Florida All State Honor Bands, The Grammy Band, and the Monterrey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Band just to name a few.
THE CANNONBALL BIRTHDAY CONCERT is the final concert in the 2015 Old Dillard Museum Cannonball Jazz Series. The series began in 2009 to honor Julian “Cannonball” Adderley’s connection to the Broward County Public School System and Dillard High School. Adderley taught music and directed the school band at the historic Dillard High School site at 1009 NW 4th Street in Fort Lauderdale between 1948 and 1950 and later taught at the current Dillard High School between 1953 and 1956.
SPONSORS: The Old Dillard Museum, The Old Dillard Foundation, Funding Arts Broward, National Endowment for the Arts, Broward County Public Schools, Dillard Center for the Arts, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council, the Fort Lauderdale Chapter of Links, Inc.
OLD DILLARD MUSEUM is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1991 as the first public schoolhouse built for blacks in Broward County and the first “Colored School” to offer classes beyond the sixth grade. For many years after the school graduated its first seniors in 1938, Dillard was the only high school in the county to provide a 12th Grade to black students in Broward County.
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