Nat Adderley Jr. will be tickling the ivories at 3 p.m. on Sept. 13 in the Prima Studio Theatre in the Grunin Center for the Arts’ Building 12 on the Ocean County College campus.

Adderley spent 25 years as the music director for rhythm and blues singer Luther Vandros. When Vandros passed away in 2005, he returned to his roots as a jazz pianist, mixing hard bop with R&B.