Pepper Adams

Pepper Adams – Motor City Scene (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:59 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bethlehem Records

Motor City Scene, also released as Stardust, is an album by American saxophonist Pepper Adams and trumpeter Donald Byrd, recorded in 1960 and released on the Bethlehem label as BCP 6056 featuring Byrd and Adams with Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, and Louis Hayes. It is not to be confused with the identically titled 1959 album on United Artists Records (UAS 5025) that also featured Tommy Flanagan and Paul Chambers, along with Thad Jones, Billy Mitchell, and Elvin Jones.
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Pepper Adams – Live at the Room at the Top (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:46:44 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live

Rare unreleased 1972 concert recording from saxophonist Pepper Adams with the Tommy Banks Trio.

The eighth historical release from archival imprint Real to Reel Records is an unreleased concert recording from baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams with the Tommy Banks Trio. Adams is best known for his work with John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd and countless other jazz legends. The 100-minute performance was recorded on September 25th, 1972 at the University of Alberta.
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Pepper Adams – Jazzmen Detroit! (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:40 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Park Frederick “Pepper” Adams III (October 8, 1930 – September 10, 1986) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist and composer. He composed 42 pieces, was the leader on eighteen albums spanning 28 years, and participated in 600 sessions as a sideman. He worked with an array of musicians, and had especially fruitful collaborations with trumpeter Donald Byrd and as a member of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band.
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Pepper Adams – Hollywood Quintet Sessions (1957/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:07 minutes | 716 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Featuring: Pepper Adams (bars); Stu Williamson, Lee Katzman (tp); Carl Perkins, Jimmy Rowles (p); Leroy Vinnegar, Doug Watkins (b); Mel Lewis (d)

Pepper Adams was one of those young jazzmen from Detroit who emerged in the middle Fifties with two dynamic elements in common: they all played melodically, and they all swung. As Adams succinctly put it, “This is the kind of playing that stands the test of time.” In January 1956, still virtually unknown among jazz fans and critics, he decided to migrate to New York. By the Fall he had joined Stan Kenton’s band on its way back to the West Coast. This experience turned out to be a success, the beginning of a “meteoric rise” in his career. He won Down Beat’s jazz critics’ poll award as New Star on baritone in 1957 and then settled in Los Angeles for over a year. There he played and recorded with several groups, making his first two albums under his own name. Both are on this CD.
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Pepper Adams – Out of This World, Vol. 2 (1961/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:42 minutes | 688 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warwick Records

Out of This World is an album by the Pepper Adams Donald Byrd Quintet. The album features the recording debut of pianist Herbie Hancock.
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