Pyramid

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:34:10
Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (soprano & alto saxophones); Nat Adderley (cornet); Hal Galper (electric piano); Walter Booker (acoustic bass); Roy McCurdy (drums). Additional personnel: Jimmy Jones (piano); George Duke (acoustic & electric clavinets, ARP synthesizer); Phil Upchurch (guitar). Producers: Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, David Axelrod. Originally released on Fantasy (9455). Digitally remastered by Kirk Felton (1997, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley California). Julian "Cannonball" Adderley's final studio album, PYRAMID, is a remarkable farewell. The 1974 release, recorded with a septet lineup featuring cornet player Nat Adderley and clavinet player George Duke--both of whom would go on to lead their own combos later in the decade--features Adderley's alto and soprano saxes in a funky brand of fusion. The music never succumbs to the lumbering excesses the fusion style was beginning to become known for by this time. In fact, much of the charm of PYRAMID is due to its unusual brevity. The entire eight-track album is over in 23-and-a-half minutes. Considering that other fusion players were releasing single compositions that ran twice as long, PYRAMID is almost like a punk album! The centerpiece is the three-part "Suite Cannon," a complex yet swinging affair full of Adderley's typical grace and fire.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)