"I was suddenly witness to the greatest jazz players of that era," says Shepard. "One night Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan were playing and the relief comedian was Woody Allen".
"No one saw the cannonball they were pointing at us all," Toston said.
I'd say the schools dodged a cannonball on this one," said Assemblyman Joseph Cryan, a Democrat from Union County, who is chairman of the Democratic State Committee.
(A cannonball with one leg extended).
And good luck to Mr. Lin: may you one day write your "Cannonball".
It potentially has that feel, always assuming there is not one last lurking Wilkinson cannonball in store.
A useful parallel would be the Indigo Girls, who lend their voices to "Cannonball," lyrically one of Ms. Carlile's lesser tunes.
Louis Hayes, whose drumming you might know from the Blue Note hard-bop records of the mid-1960's, is a standard-bearer of this music as an almost classical entity; this weekend he plays the repertory of the saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, one of his old colleagues.
Young children may squirm at some of the vivid scenes, including the moment when a spotlight turns on a trio of mannequins, one rendered headless by a cannonball.
