Pyramid (Cannonball Adderley album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Pyramid

| type = Album

| artist = Cannonball Adderley

| cover = Pyramid (Cannonball Adderley album).jpg

| alt =

| released = 1974

| recorded = 1974

| venue =

| studio = Fantasy (Berkeley)

| genre = Jazz

| length = 35:36

| label = Fantasy

| producer = David Axelrod

| chronology = Cannonball Adderley

| prev_title = Inside Straight

| prev_year = 1973

| next_title = Phenix

| next_year = 1975

}}

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.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/cannonball-adderley/catalog/#fantasy-f-9455 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|class=album|id=r200099|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review], accessed November 4, 2009. The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 2½ stars.{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2 = Brian Morton|author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|orig-year = 1992|edition = 8th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2006|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0-141-02327-4|pages = [https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/10 10]|url-access = registration|url = https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/10}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}

| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz

| rev2Score = {{rating|2.5|4}}

|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev3Score = {{rating|1|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone