Pepper Adams
- MatchPepper Adams
- 79%Harold Land
- 68%Lucky Thompson
- 65%Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis
- 64%Leo Parker
- 49%Freddie Redd
- 47%Paul Gonsalves
- 45%Dizzy Reece
- 40%Howard McGhee
- 39%Gigi Gryce
- 38%Booker Little
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
Genres
Tags
jazz
hard bop
saxophone
60s
jazz
hard bop
saxophone
60s
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