''Pyramid'' is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California in 1974 featuring performances by Adderley's Quintet with Nat Adderley, Hal Galper, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy with guest appearances by Phil Upchurch, George Duke, and Jimmy Jones (pianist), Jimmy Jones.Cannonball Adderley discography
accessed November 4, 2009.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars and states: "Cannonball Adderley is in generally good form on this 1974 recording.... Nothing too earthshattering occurs but this is an improvement over many of Adderley's Capitol recordings."Yanow, S. [ Allmusic review], accessed November 4, 2009. ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' awarded the album 2½ stars.

Track listing

''All compositions by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley except as indicated'' # "Phases" (Hal Galper) - 6:00 # "My Lady Blue" (Galper) - 4:45 # "Book-Ends" (David Axelrod (musician), David Axelrod) - 5:35 # "Pyramid" - 3:40 # "Suite Cannon: The King and I" - 3:13 # "Suite Cannon: Time In" - 4:33 # "Suite Cannon: For Melvin Lastie" - 2:36 # "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:36 *Recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA, in 1974

Personnel

*Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone *Nat Adderley - cornet *Hal Galper - electric piano *Walter Booker - double bass, bass *Roy McCurdy - drum kit, drums *Phil Upchurch - guitar *George Duke - clavinet, ARP Instruments, Inc., ARP synthesizer *Jimmy Jones (pianist), Jimmy Jones - piano (track 8)

References

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