American jazzman Nat Adderley played the cornet most famously in his brother's
Cannonball Adderley's Quintet, which had huge success in the 1960s. He was an
accomplished soloist and wrote several original pieces including 'Work Song',
'Jive Samba', and 'The Old Country'. Following his brother's death in 1975, he
formed his own quintet with sidemen Walter Booker and Jimmy Carter and alto
saxophonist Victor Herring.
Born in Florida, he learned to play the trumpet from his musician father but
after he attended Florida University, he switched to the cornet, which he played
in a ...