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Say Brother; Cannonball Express; Cannonball Adderley and the Cannonball Express
Part of Say Brother.
04/23/1973
This clip is performance footage of Cannonball Adderley's jazz band Cannonball Express (with Bobby Timmons, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy) shot live at Paul's Mall in Boston. The overall program contains Program contains numerous "magazine-style" segments, of which the most prominent is host John Slade's interview with musician Cannonball Adderley. Accompanying the interview, in segments before and after, is performance footage of Adderley's jazz band Cannonball Express (with Bobby Timmons, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy) shot live at Paul's Mall in Boston the night before the interview. Other segments include a performance by the Immala Blakely Dancers, an interview with Harvard psychiatry professor Dr. Alvin Pouissant about his book Why Blacks Kill Blacks, a demonstration of self-defense techniques using karate with black belt Harry Gardner, and a performance by jazz group The J.R. Mitchell Experience. Produced by John Slade. Directed by Russell Tillman.
License Clip
- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Cannonball Express
- Program Number
262
- Title
Cannonball Adderley and the Cannonball Express
- Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968
- Program Description
Program contains numerous "magazine-style" segments, of which the most prominent is host John Slade's interview with musician Cannonball Adderley. Accompanying the interview, in segments before and after, is performance footage of Adderley's jazz band "Cannonball Express" which was shot live in Boston the night before the interview. Other segments include a performance by the Immala Blakely Dancers; an interview with Harvard psychology professor Alvin Pouissant, discussing his book, "Why Blacks Kill Blacks"; a demonstration of self defense techniques using karate by black belt Harry Gardner; and a performance by jazz group "The J. R. Mitchell Experience."
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- African American musicians
- Jazz
- Paul's Mall (Boston, Mass.)
- Adderley, Cannonball
- Jazz musicians
- Pouissant, Dr. Alvin
- Music--Performance
- J.R. Mitchell Experience, The (Musical group)
- Immala Blakely Dancers
- Cannonball Express (Musical group)
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Jones, Vickie (Associate Producer)
- Tillman, Russell (Director)
- Slade, John (Producer)
- Contributors
- Johnson, Henry (Film Sound)
- Loerzel, David (Film Sound)
- Lewis, Webster (Theme Music)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Production Assistant)
- Slade, John (Host)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Cannonball Express; Cannonball Adderley and the Cannonball Express,” 04/23/1973, GBH Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_886AA1D83E12475BBE31095295CF7B9D.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Cannonball Express; Cannonball Adderley and the Cannonball Express.” 04/23/1973. GBH Archives. Web. April 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_886AA1D83E12475BBE31095295CF7B9D>.
- APA: Say Brother; Cannonball Express; Cannonball Adderley and the Cannonball Express. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_886AA1D83E12475BBE31095295CF7B9D