| A Tribute to Cannonball | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Bud Powell and Don Byas |
| Cover: | Bud Powell - A Tribute to Cannonball (album cover).jpg |
| Released: | March 1979 |
| Recorded: | 15 December 1961 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 60:59 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Producer: | Cannonball Adderley |
| Prev Title: | At the Golden Circle |
| Prev Year: | 1978 |
| Next Title: | Inner Fires |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
| Chronology: | Bud Powell |
A Tribute to Cannonball is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell and tenor saxophonist Don Byas, released on Columbia in March 1979, featuring a session recorded at the Studio Charlot in Paris on 15 December 1961, with Pierre Michelot on bass and Kenny Clarke on drums, and trumpeter Idrees Sulieman guesting on four tracks. The session was produced by Cannonball Adderley, who would also produce Powell's follow-up A Portrait of Thelonious recorded two days later.
The album was digitally remastered and re-released on CD in 1997, and included a newly discovered session take of "Cherokee" with Cannonball Adderley on alto.
Terry Martin of DownBeat praised the album, writing, "The contribution of the other musicians is largely that of providing the stimulating framework for one of the tenor saxophonist’s most successful recordings, though Powell’s work also repays close attention and Idrees Sulieman’s playing supplies a brassy contrast of Navarroish melodicism to four tunes."[1]