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ADAMS PEPPER - Plays The Compositions Of Charlie Mingus (180g)
Pepper Adams & Jimmy Knepper - Pepper-Knepper
Audiophile 180g reissue by Jazz Workshop - Mono - lighly limited 500 units wordlwide
Pepper Adams, baritone saxophone; Jimmy Knepper, trombone; Wynton Kelly, piano & organ; Doug Watkins, bass; Elvin Jones, drums. Recorded in New York City, March 25, 1958, at Beltone Studios. Supervision: LEONARD FEATHER
Pepper and Knepper, as anyone who has read the music magazines in the past year or two must know, is not the name of a vaudeville comedy team. It is, in fact, a specially assembled musical unit, both of whose leaders have joined the by now multitudinous but still distinguished International Critics' Poll award winners. (Pepper Adams, best new baritone saxophonist, 1957; Jimmy Knepper, best new trombonist, 1958.)
Park "Pepper" Adams has been described by critic Ralph Gleason as "a really exciting artist with an individual sound." John Tynan of Down Beat calls him "a modern horn man with roots deep in jazz tradition-one of the most important exponents of the big horn", while Nat Hentoff has indicated that "he may well be the best relatively new baritone saxist" in recent years. Born in 1930 in Highland Park, Illinois, Pepper was raised in Rochester, New York, where he began gigging on tenor sax and clarinet. Moving to Detroit, he took up baritone sax and in 1947 worked in Lucky Thompson's band. After two years of Army service (1951-3) he returned to Detroit, working with James Richards at the Bluebird and later with Kenny Burrell's group. Pepper came to New York City in January 1956. Later that year he worked briefly in the Stan Kenton orchestra. Mel Lewis, who played drums in that band, says "We called him 'The Knife' because when he'd get up to blow his playing had almost a slashing effect on the rest of us. He'd slash, chop, and before he was through, cut everybody down to size." Later Pepper worked with Maynard Ferguson and Chet Baker, gigged around the west coast for a while, and settled in New York early 1958, led his own combo at the Five Spot.
Though Pepper's approach and technical facilities are unmistakably of the modern era, many of his important influences were pre-bop: he names Coleman Hawkins the late Chu Berry, Harry Carney and the Detroit pianist Barry Harris among the principal shapers of his jazz thinking.
Jimmy Knepper, whose above-mentioned poll victory was gained with the votes of such noted writers as Whitney Balliett of The New Yorker, Dom Cerulli of Down Beat, Jack Maber of Metronome, John Mehegan of the New York Herald Tribune, John S. Wilson of the New York Times, and Martin Williams of Jazz Review, was born in Los Angeles in 1927. At eight, he played baritone horn in a military school band, and two years later started on trombone. After studying for several years with private teachers he made his professional debut with a band led by Johnny Richards' brother, Chuck Cabot, in 1943....
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personnel
Pepper Adams - Baritonsaxophon / Jimmy Knepper - Posaune / Wynton Kelly - Piano / Orgel / Doug Watkins - Bass / Elvin Jones - Schlagzeug
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Side B |
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MINOR CATASTROPHE Jon Hendricks; Totem Music (ASCAP)
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6:05
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RIVERSIDE DRIVE-Leonard Feather L.Feather (ASCAP)
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5:13 |
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MINOR CATASTROPHE Jon Hendricks; Totem Music (ASCAP)
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5:53
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I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT YOU Duke Ellington; Robbins Music (ASCAP)
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4:27 |
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BEAUBIEN-Pepper Adams; Modern Age, BM
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6:23
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PRIMROSE PATH-Jimmy Knepper; Modern Age, BMI. .
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7:04 |
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ADAMS IN THE APPLE Jimmy Knepper; Modern Age, BMI
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4:49
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