Pepper Adams
- MatchPepper Adams
- 82%Harold Land
- 74%Lucky Thompson
- 66%Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis
- 57%Leo Parker
- 54%Clifford Jordan
- 48%Freddie Redd
- 48%Paul Gonsalves
- 47%Dizzy Reece
- 44%Sahib Shihab
- 40%Howard McGhee
Biography
Park Adams III, 8 October 1930, Highland Park, Michigan, USA, d. 10 September 1986, New York City, New York, USA. While Adams was still a child his family moved to Rochester, New York, where he became involved in the local jazz music scene. Inspired by Coleman Hawkins, Adams decided to become a tenor saxophone player, but quickly fell under the spell of Harry Carney, taking up the baritone in the mid-40s (somewhat self-depreciatingly, Adams later insisted that the chief reason he took up the... Read more