Pepper Adams - The Remasters (All Tracks Remastered) '2022

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Hastings Street Bounce (Remastered 2017)
02. 50-21 (Remastered 2020)
03. Unforgettable (Remastered 2017)
04. Alone Together (Remastered 2020)
05. Baubles, Bangles, and Beads (Remastered 2017)
06. Zec (Remastered 2020)
07. Freddie Froo (Remastered 2017)
08. High Step (Remastered 2020)
09. My One and Only Love (Remastered 2017)
10. Blackout Blues (Remastered 2020)
11. Muezzin (Remastered 2017)
12. Minor Mishap (Remastered 2020)
13. Bloos, Booze, Blues (Remastered 2017)
14. Bitty Ditty (Remastered)
15. Seein' Red (Remastered 2017)
16. Libeccio (Remastered)
17. Like What Is This? (Remastered 2017)
18. Trio (Remastered)
19. Skippy (Remastered 2017)
20. Philson (Remastered)
21. 'Tis (Theme) (Remastered 2017)
22. Stardust (Remastered)
23. You're My Thrill (Remastered 2017)
24. Yourna (Remastered 2017)
25. The Long Two/Four (Remastered 2017)


 Read Full BiographyBorn Park Adams III on October 8, 1930, in Highland Park,
MI, he was five years old when his family moved to Rochester, NY, where he soon
developed a passionate interest in jazz by listening to Fats Waller, Jimmie
Lunceford, Duke Ellington, and Cab Calloway on the radio. At 12 he was blowing
clarinet and tenor sax and was soon sitting in with local bands, including one
led by veteran reedman Ben Smith. Pepper's primary inspiration was tenor
archetype Coleman Hawkins, and Harry Carney inspired him to take up the
baritone. Moving back to Detroit in 1946, he played in a group led by Lucky
Thompson and worked in the house band at the African-American-owned Bluebird Inn
with Barry Harris, Billy Mitchell, and Thad and Elvin Jones while holding down a
job manufacturing automobiles. He blew tenor with Lionel Hampton for a while and
served in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953, including a spell in Korea. Resuming
his routine at the Bluebird, he developed his stamina while working with Miles
Davis, Sonny Stitt, and Wardell Gray, whose influence he always acknowledged.

Adams worked in a group led by guitarist Kenny Burrell, then recorded with alto
saxophonist Lennie Niehaus. His most memorable session of 1955 was with bassist
Paul Chambers and emerging tenor John Coltrane. Moving to New York in January
1956, he recorded with Kenny Clarke, Curtis Fuller, and Quincy Jones. Pepper
toured with Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson and while on the West Coast he
jammed with Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars. During 1957 Adams made records
with harmonica ace Toots Thielemans; pianists Hank Jones and Ahmad Kharab Salim;
trumpeters Shorty Rogers and Lee Morgan; and saxophonists Dave Pell, John
Coltrane, Frank Wess, Coleman Hawkins, Hank Mobley, and Shafi Hadi (later
reissued with the complete Debut recordings of Charles Mingus).

Two AltosIn 1958 Adams worked with Benny Goodman, Johnny Griffin, Chet Baker,
Manny Albam, Gene Ammons, and Donald Byrd, with whom he would co-lead a band and
cut quite a number of albums over the years. In 1959 Pepper put out an LP with
trombonist Jimmy Knepper and led a group that was recorded live at the Five
Spot. He supported Art Pepper and Sonny Red on their album Two Altos and sat in
on Philly Joe Jones' Showcase. Adams helped solidify the orchestra that appeared
with Thelonious Monk at Town Hall and served as a sort of living furnace among
trombonist Jimmy Knepper and saxophonists Jackie McLean, John Handy, and Booker
Ervin during the session that resulted in Blues and Roots, the album that
virtually defines the artistic legacy of Charles Mingus. He began the 1960s by
recording with multi-instrumentalist Herbie Mann, pianist Herbie Hancock,
vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, saxophonist Jimmy Forrest, and trumpeters Howard
McGhee and Freddie Hubbard. He also recorded with pianists Duke Pearson and Red
Garland, helped saxophonist Pony Poindexter cut his first album, and appeared
live with Mingus at New York's Town Hall and Birdland.

Plays Charlie MingusIn 1963 Pepper Adams Plays Charlie Mingus was co-produced by
Mingus and vibraphonist Teddy Charles. Other collaborations from this period
include Ben Webster's See You at the Fair, Oliver Nelson's More Blues and the
Abstract Truth, and dates led by pianist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Stanley
Turrentine. In 1966 Thad Jones and Pepper Adams co-led the album Mean What You
Say. This coincided with the first of the Monday night performances at the
Village Vanguard by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, an 18-piece unit that
would stay together for ten years. Throughout the late '60s Pepper Adams
performed with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, with Dizzy Gillespie at the Vanguard,
behind organist Jimmy Smith on Stay Loose...Jimmy Smith Sings Again, and on
various albums by saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Hank Crawford, Zoot Sims, Houston
Person, and Roland Kirk. He closed out the decade by sitting in with bassist
Richard Davis, with guitarist George Benson on the album Giblet Gravy, and in a
large band behind Mose Allison on the LP Hello There, Universe.

Peaceful WorldPepper Adams showed up on several Blue Note sessions presided over
by Elvin Jones from 1969 to 1973, on two albums with soul-jazz organist Johnny
"Hammond" Smith, and with composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram on
various projects that materialized throughout the 1970s. Adams demonstrated
terrific adaptability as he assisted Felix Cavaliere and the Rascals with their
jazz-rock crossover Peaceful World and even signed on with comedian Martin Mull,
appearing on his 1974 album, Normal, where he lent ballast to a tidy big-band
arrangement of "Flexible" with Phil Bodner, Thad Jones, Jimmy Knepper, and Joe
Farrell. Further engagements during the 1970s (including tours of the U.K. and
Europe) involved pianists Arif Mardin, Ben Sidran, and Mickey Tucker; guitarist
Eric Gale; saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr.; and Lalo Schifrin's disco album
Black Widow. A return to jazzier turf came about on Nick Brignola's Baritone
Madness, on sessions with pianist Walter Bishop, Jr., and on Charles Mingus'
last albums Me, Myself an Eye and Something Like a Bird in 1978.

Urban DreamsPepper's Urban Dreams came out in 1981, ushering in what would be
his last five years of artistic productivity. He assisted with Teo Macero's
Impressions of Charles Mingus and recorded with pianist Bess Bonnier, guitarist
Peter Leitch, pianists Hank Jones and Hod O'Brien, and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler.
Pepper's last recording, The Adams Effect, brought him together with saxophonist
Frank Foster and a rhythm section of Tommy Flanagan, Ron Carter, and Billy Hart.
A lifelong tobacco addict, Pepper Adams died of lung cancer in Brooklyn, NY, on
September 10, 1986. ~ arwulf arwulf

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