Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley is a jazzman with a nagging, but not unique, problem: the more successful he becomes, the less his original, far-out fans like him. One of his recent albums, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (Riverside), sold 50,000 copies—phenomenal for a jazz record—and climbed to the bestseller charts along with such towering competitors as Fireside Sing Along with Mitch. Last week Cannonball and his men were shouting it up at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop. "The rhythm," complained a beard to a ponytail, "doesn't hang together the way it did last...
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