That cat was something else on that horn so Coleman Hawkins is quoted as saying in the booklet and, listening to Adams' near eleven minute solo on Thad Jones' Three and One who am I to disagree? Nor would the almost endless list of super stars who added their own acknowledgment of the genius that was Pepper Adams.
Dizzy, Clark Terry (Just fantastic! I never heard him jump into anything that stymied him: any tune, any tempo, any key. He was a phenomenal musician), Bill Perkins, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Bill Watrous, Junior Cook and many many more pay similar tributes to a person who, in retrospect is surely, long after his death in 1986, the greatest ever baritone saxist in the history of jazz.
The tone, the technique is just amazing. If you play bari, I don't care if you figure in DownBeat polls or have just bought your first instrument you have two options after you've listened to this 1972, and still undefeated album. Either start practising 24/7 for the rest of your life or find another line of work.
It's that good! Taken from reel to reel takes of a Canadian radio broadcast of 50 years ago they have been cleaned up and transferred to the various formats and the result is unbelievable. Add the local rhythm section - the Tommy Banks Trio - who could cut it any side of the border and you have an album that is on the triple plus side of wonderful! Lance
2 LP-set. Record Store Day Release on April 23. Deluxe CD/Digital + 2 bonus tracks on May 6. More info.
Disc One: Three and One; Civilisation and its Discontents; Patrice;
Disc Two: Oleo; 'Tis; Time on my Hands; Stella by Starlight (begins in progress)
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