Product DescriptionReleased in December of 2004, This exciting debut CD features swinging, straight-ahead jazz from bassist/leader Luther Hughes and his top-notch cohorts, known collectively as ?The Cannonball-Coltrane Project.? Initially formed as an homage to the 1959 Cannonball Adderley-John Coltrane landmark album, ?The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago,? the group continues to pay tribute to these jazz giants with arrangements and original compositions related to or inspired by Cannonball and/or Coltrane. In addition to many favorable reviews in the media, The Cannonball-Coltrane Project has received accolades from their musical peers, including Howard Rumsey, Red Holloway, Horace Silver, Mundell Lowe, and Cannonball?s drummer for 11 years, Roy McCurdy.