Southern California-based Luther Hughes and the Cannonball-Coltrane Project is a jazz quintet formed in June 2002 with the idea of paying tribute to a 1959 Cannonball Adderley-John Coltrane landmark album, Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago.

Featuring Luther Hughes - bass & band leader; Glenn Cashman - tenor sax; Bruce Babad - alto sax; Ed Czach - piano; Paul Kreibich - drums

The group continues to pay tribute to these jazz giants with arrangements and original compositions inspired by Cannonball and Coltrane. In addition to their many favorable reviews in the media, Luther Hughes and the Cannonball-Coltrane Project has received accolades from their musical peers, including Howard Rumsey, Red Holloway, Horace Silver, Mundell Lowe, and Roy McCurdy, who was Cannonball’s drummer for 11 years.