tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12101767494257248892024-02-24T02:11:19.008-07:00The Master: Pepper Adams BlogDiscuss the great saxophonist and composer Pepper Adams with biographer Gary Carner on the first Sunday of each month. Buy his Pepper Adams book <a href="http://www.pepperadams.com/JoyRoad/index.html">here.</a>
By Pepper CDs <a href="http://motema.com/?s=pepper+adams">here.</a>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.comBlogger241125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-7183923975672035532023-08-06T14:05:00.007-06:002023-08-06T14:11:23.904-06:00Pepper Adams: Saxophone Trailblazer<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-96136f8c-7fff-8c4c-8225-dbf912536106" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m eagerly awaiting the release of </span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper Adams: Saxophone Trailblazer. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The ship date is September 1. </span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It’s the abridged version of </span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Life and Music of Pepper Adams, </span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the ebook</span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that I published in 2021, four days before Adams’s 91st birthday: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html</span></a><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The paperback is available as a pre-order: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://sunypress.edu/Books/P/Pepper-Adams" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://sunypress.edu/Books/P/Pepper-Adams</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It can also be pre-ordered on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. See the</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">links below.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If anyone is interested in reviewing it, request a review copy here: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://sunypress.edu/Requests/Request-for-Media-Review-Copies" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://sunypress.edu/Requests/Request-for-Media-Review-Copies</span></a><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">An excerpt of the paperback appeared recently on Ethan Iverson’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">newsletter Transitional Technology </span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(#TT 288) to correspond with the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">book’s </span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">upcoming publication: </span><a href="https://iverson.substack.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://iverson.substack.com/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Frank Basile sent me a link to 314 E 6th St #10, the apartment that Adams </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and </span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Elvin Jones shared in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">mid-1959. It looks rather posh now but it certainly </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">wasn’t then: </span><a href="https://streeteasy.com/building/314-east-6-street-new_york/10" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://streeteasy.com/building/314-east-6-street-new_york/10</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On October 8, 2023, Pepper’s 93rd birthday, Aaron Lington and I will be</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">hosting the fifth Adams </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Roundtable. As with all of them, it will be eventually </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">posted on YouTube and at </span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com</span></a><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The fourth installment, still in the editing phase, will be posted in the next </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">month or so. The </span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">previous three can be found here: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/PanelDiscussions.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/PanelDiscussions.html</span></a><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Here’s the roster thus far for #5:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Noah Pettibon: unknown solo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pat LaBarbera: Reminiscing in Tempo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bevan Manson: Compositional Aspects of Selected </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper Tunes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Aaron Lington: unknown solo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Glenn Wilson: unknown solo </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jason Marshall: unknown solo </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Danny Harrington: unknown solo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Russell Scarbrough: Thad, Pepper, and Mingus</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Gordon Vernick: unknown solo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">John Vana: “Lover” (1977)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Kevin Goss: "My Shining Hour" (1980)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Joseph Trahan: “Alone Together” (1983)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ronnie Burrage: “Dobbin” or “Doctor Deep” (1985)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pepper-adams-gary-carner/1143138665" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pepper-adams-gary-carner/1143138665</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pepper-Adams-Saxophone-Trailblazer-Excelsior/dp/1438494351/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=9781438494357&qid=1687401654&sr=8-1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.amazon.com/Pepper-Adams-Saxophone-Trailblazer-Excelsior/dp/1438494351/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=9781438494357&qid=1687401654&sr=8-1</span></a><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-32987706002190394182023-06-04T17:06:00.002-06:002023-06-04T17:09:07.070-06:00Quick Takes<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I hope everyone is having an enjoyable beginning to the summer. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Recently, new chronology links were posted at </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">updating both Adams’s life while affiliated with Thad Jones, and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">his concluding eight years after he left Jones/Lewis:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/InternationalSoloist.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/InternationalSoloist.pdf</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/Thaddeus.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/Thaddeus.pdf</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Adams Panel #4 that I conducted with Aaron Lington’s help </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is almost ready to be posted. It’s taken a lot of time to prepare due to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">one of our panelist’s audio issues.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m excited to announce that an outline from Noah Pettibon is expected </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">this summer for his forthcoming book on Adams, co-written with John </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Vana.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Coinciding with the Fall release of the paperback edition of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">will be Panel #5, scheduled on October 8, Adams’s 93rd birthday. The </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">roster of participants so far is terrific!:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pat LaBarbera: Reminiscing in Tempo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bevan Manson: Compositional Aspects of Selected Pepper Tunes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Noah Pettibon: solo from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Encounter </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(1968)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">John Vana: “Lover” (1977)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Kevin Goss: "My Shining Hour" (1980)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Joseph Trahan: “Alone Together” (1983)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ronnie Burrage: “Dobbin” or “Doctor Deep” (1985)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Aaron Lington: unknown solo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Glenn Wilson: unknown solo </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jason Marshall: unknown solo </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Danny Harrington: unknown solo</span></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-50204415454730245692023-05-07T07:01:00.007-06:002023-05-07T07:23:07.302-06:00Updates to PepperAdams.com<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-ff321389-7fff-5c69-87d7-865a2281aa69" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I learned recently that Claudette Adams, Pepper’s widow, has passed away. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Excerent Music, Pepper’s publishing company, is likely now being overseen </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">by Dylan Hill, her son and Pepper's stepson.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’ve been told that the Excelsior paperback version of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory: The Life </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and Music of Pepper Adams </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">will be published this September. Once </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">available, a link to it will be posted on pepperadams.com, and it will be sold </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">through online booksellers, such as Amazon.com. I’ve also been told that it </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">may also be available at neighborhood bookstores, at least in the US, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">though you may have to order it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Updates made to my liner notes for Paul Tynan and Aaron Lington’s new </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bicoastal Collective release were just submitted.Their record company’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">owner didn’t like my opening, feeling it wasn’t directly about Tynan and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Lington, and that it also sounded like “sour grapes”:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Inasmuch as Wynton Marsalis has served as a double-threat jazz and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">classical recording artist, why haven’t Paul Tynan and Aaron Lington </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">done the same? Both possess the pedigree, musicianship, and virtuosity </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that made Marsalis a dual cash cow for Columbia Records beginning in </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the 1980s, when Tynan and Lington were youngsters. Marsalis’s status </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">as the only jazz player in the 1980s and ’90s who, as a featured soloist, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">also recorded the classical repertoire with symphony orchestras, is typical </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in the US. According to Robert Frank and Philip Cook’s </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-All-Society-Much-More-Than/dp/0140259953/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3LONT6RFPPYCI&keywords=Robert+Frank+and+Philip+Cook&qid=1675207993&sprefix=robert+frank+and+philip+cook%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Winner-</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-All-Society-Much-More-Than/dp/0140259953/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3LONT6RFPPYCI&keywords=Robert+Frank+and+Philip+Cook&qid=1675207993&sprefix=robert+frank+and+philip+cook%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-All-Society-Much-More-Than/dp/0140259953/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3LONT6RFPPYCI&keywords=Robert+Frank+and+Philip+Cook&qid=1675207993&sprefix=robert+frank+and+philip+cook%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of U</span></a>s</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Top performers tend to monopolize pay and prestige, leaving little in the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">way of either gain or glory for the vast numbers of also-rans.” Alas, although </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Tynan and Lington by the mid-nineties were eminently qualified to be </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">featured on both jazz and classical dates, offers never came their way. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The most recent Pepper Adams roundtable that Lington and I convened, #4, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">should be posted on YouTube and </span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">soon. The first three are here: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/PanelDiscussions.html" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.pepperadams.com/PanelDiscussions.html</span></a> Some modifications still need to be made to fix a few music examples. The </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">event broke new ground, and musicians should be delighted with it. Panel #5 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">can be expected sometime this fall, corresponding with the paperback release </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper Adams: Saxophone Trailblazer</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Peter Kang’s third-year recital of Adams tunes at University of Toronto is here: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3Dk5SetgI9r1Q%26t%3D1814s&source=gmail&ust=1683552065866000&usg=AOvVaw2CFA-nkaiBxRa8c3kQbBC-" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5SetgI9r1Q&t=1814s" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=k5SetgI9r1Q&t=1814s</a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;"> I hope to post his charts at pepperadams.com.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A new version of Disco Updates, the place where I make changes and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">corrections to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Joy Road: An Annotated Discography of Pepper Adams, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">has </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">been posted. So too have updates to three parts of Adams’s chronology: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Early Years: 1930</span><span face="'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1958, Byrd-Adams Quintet: 1958</span><span face="'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1961, and Journeyman: 1961</span><span face="'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1964.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/JoyRoad/DiscoUpdates.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/JoyRoad/DiscoUpdates.pdf</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/EarlyYears.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/EarlyYears.pdf</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/ByrdAdamsQuintet.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/ByrdAdamsQuintet.pdf</span></a></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/Journeyman.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/Journeyman.pdf</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-89926914553252503862023-04-03T13:48:00.001-06:002023-04-03T13:49:52.529-06:00March and April Madness<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-e5944c83-7fff-9668-8059-a82ee0566081" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">March slipped away without a blog post and this one is late. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I had started a new day job in late February that was a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">distraction, and now I’m involved in a move. Packing is no </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">fun at any age, but especially this time around.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">No news yet on the release date for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper Adams: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Saxophone Trailblazer. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fall is still the projected date. Again, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">it’s the abridged paperback version of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html ">Reflectory: The Life </a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html ">and Music of Pepper Adams</a>,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">but devoid of music links and many photographs. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">will remain in print, is likely $5 cheaper, and far more </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">authoritative. The music links are incredible! 250 solos you’ve </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">never heard! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html " style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html </a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Pepper Adams Archive is now available for study at William </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Paterson University. It’s becoming more likely that the last two </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">deliveries of my Adams stuff will get there by summer. Most of it, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">still sitting at my sister-in laws, includes Adams’s charts for his </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Charles Mingus tribute date for Motown, numerous photos, and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">various ephemera.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The February 26 Adams panel discussion was a tremendous </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">success. It should be posted at <a href="http://pepperadams.com">pepperadams.com</a> in a few weeks. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The delay is due to our opening speaker, Paul Tynan, who had </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Zoom issues when demonstrating on trumpet Pepper’s licks and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">phrases. Once he repairs his music examples, you’ll be delighted </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">with the new ground that he and all the participants broke. Here’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the roster: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Paul Tynan: “Clarion Calls” (1959)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Joseph Trahan: “‘Tis” (1958)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ben Sidran: “Little Rootie Tootie” (1959)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Aaron Lington: “Each Time I Think of You” (1961)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Andrew Hadro: “Incarnation” (1963)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">John Vana: "Azure-Te" (1963)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Logan Ivancik: “Once Around” (1966)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Frank Basile: “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Currents/Pollen” (1973) and “Wind from the Indies” (1977)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Adam Schroeder: “Three and One” (1975)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Courtney Wright: “It Could Happen to You” (1980)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Noah Pettibon: “Three Little Words” (1981)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjO-sNB7K9McXiaVNYyJkGFcMYkfFbddRQHagzSsN0AFzE052jG4K7ABBiBYrEFzm5VCw1jx-nKKhskv0x_W6a_WEBXrMJvBlaQu_HzGpyrAldSOf6LKDzVP2gG3R8MmA1MQOQkqte6TyYtejn6PSE9Cm5uZyqnPvmiE0mi98MZI04Mx75n8P3yzH62" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m thrilled to report that my paperback version of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">entitled </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper Adams: Saxophone Trailblazer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> is now submitted in final form to Excelsior Editions. It took </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">about two solid weeks of intense work to finish the index, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">after </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">another two similar weeks close-reading the manuscript. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">“Jimmy Health”? That’s one typo that for so long snuck under </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the radar but is now fixed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">William Paterson University has cataloged my and Pepper’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">materials, and they are now available for study. Another box of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">tapes and videos will be sent sometime this year from my </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">webmaster. And a large load of five or so large boxes of scores </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and ephemera still sit in Atlanta. I’m not sure how they will make </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">it to Wayne, New Jersey, but I’ll drive it there in 2024 at the latest.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Disappointingly, Worcester Polytechnic University has yet to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">digitize my interviews with Adams. They’ve had them for three </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">years, but no news yet on when they will be available at their </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">website.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Now that my Pepper Adams work has come to a close after 38 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">years, I’m free for hire to do other jazz projects. I just finished </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">writing liner notes for Paul Tynan and Aaron Lington’s forthcoming </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">recording </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bicoastal Collective, Volume 6.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">To keep </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory current, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’ve convened another Pepper Adams </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Zoom panel. On February 26, the following will discuss Adams </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">solos. It will be posted on YouTube and at <a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/">pepperadams.com </a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sometime in March:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Paul Tynan: “Clarion Calls” (1959)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ben Sidran: “Little Rootie Tootie” (1959)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Aaron Lington: “Each Time I Think of You” (1961)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Andrew Hadro: “Incarnation” (1963)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">John Vana: "Azure-Te" (1963)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Logan Ivancik: “Once Around” (1966)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Frank Basile: “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Currents/Pollen” (1973) and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> “Wind from the Indies” (1977)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Adam Schroeder: “Three and One” (1975)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Kenny Berger: “Reflectory” (1978)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Kevin Goss: "My Shining Hour" (1980)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Courtney Wright: “It Could Happen to You” (1980)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Noah Pettibon: “Three Little Words” (1981)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Lastly, check out this new discovery: Pepper Adams in Rome with </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Franco D’Andrea’s trio, January 20, 1979:</span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr70HvIbexQ" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr70HvIbexQ</span></a></p><div><br /></div>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-8292862329267477622023-01-01T15:33:00.004-07:002023-01-01T15:36:31.791-07:00Paperback Almost Done<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-793b9929-7fff-7d9b-bb32-55120b9add81" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Happy New Year! 2022 was a tough year healthwise for me, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">dealing with C0V!D and its aftermath. So, I am happy to turn </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the page.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Despite the inconvenience, I managed to abridge </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Life and Music of Pepper Adams </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">for a paperback edition</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It took four months of work to ready the manuscript for the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">publisher, and prepare all of the documents they required to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">issue me a contract. Once received, it took additional work to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">find photographs and illustrations that SUNY Press would </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">accept, and then obtain permission forms for them. Then, it </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">took another few weeks of work to pore over the copyeditor’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">corrections. Now, finally, I’m in the last stage of production. I </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">recently reread the typeset proofs, proposing final tweaks, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and now it’s up to me to produce the index, a tedious but </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">curiously engrossing task that will take another two weeks to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">complete. Once I submit the tweaks and index, all that’s left for </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">me to do is to make sure my changes were properly added </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and review the index for errors. I think by around February 1 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the book will be put to bed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You can expect an upgraded Thad/Mel chronology (1964</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre;">—</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1977) to be posted in the next few months. I recently searched </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">through eight years of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Orkester Journalen</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">magazines and was able to both find new gigs that Pepper and</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jones/Lewis did and correct some old ones. The current </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">chronology, that was updated a month or two ago, is here:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/Thaddeus.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/Thaddeus.pdf</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">For those who read Swedish or are curious, I also stumbled </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">upon a 1970 review by Lennart Blomberg that I hadn’t before </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">seen. It’s newly posted in the bibliography at</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/index.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> :</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Bibliography.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Bibliography.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">As a reminder, the ebook version will remain in print. That’s the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">one with 450 music links, half never before available, and many </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cool photographs besides. None of this is included in the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">forthcoming paperback. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I hope 2023 is a great year for all of you. I’ll provide an update on </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the paperback edition in early February. I’m hopeful that the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">project will be in the rearview mirror by then. I also hope to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">provide news about newly discovered tapes of Adams and Chet </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Baker from 1978. </span></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-83759532410464756762022-12-04T16:03:00.002-07:002022-12-04T16:03:53.226-07:00Update on Pepperback Edition<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-1a569949-7fff-4369-1018-b768edfdd2f7" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I hope everyone stateside had a terrific Thanksgiving </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and start to the holiday season. I’ve been busy packing </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">because I have to move to a new place by May 31. So </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">far, only one papercut.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Yesterday I received the galleys to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper Adams: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Saxophone Trailblazer. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I have to submit final changes by </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">mid-January. The book is still on target for a Fall, 2023 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">publication.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This, of course, will be the paperback edition of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Life and Music of Pepper Adams. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It’s devoid of music </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">links, all the photos from Adams’s estate, and at least half </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the text. But, as a slimmed down abridged edition, it will be </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">available as a “real” book, and should raise Pepper’s profile. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Also, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">will stay in print for those OK with an ebook </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and who want to hear all this great music.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In the last few weeks I’ve updated all of the Adams </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">chronologies with new research, so check them out here:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Chronology/index.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A lot of new content at pepperadams.com can be expected in </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the next few months, including new interviews and radio shows </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">with me, new performances of Pepper’s compositions, and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">vintage videos of Adams that have never before been seen.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Have a great holiday. Talk to you next year.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">BUY REFLECTORY HERE: </span></p><p><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-29921503240303078992022-11-06T17:23:00.004-07:002022-11-06T17:24:31.821-07:00Kind Words about Reflectory<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A few days ago I received a wonderful Facebook </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">message from Tony Wolton regarding </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I'm going through the book for a second time, a must have </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">item not just for lovers of Pepper Adams and his music, but </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">anyone interested in the Detroit/New York jazz scene 1950's </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">onwards. Before the book, what little I knew about him came </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">from LP liner notes and anything I might glean from a magazine </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">or two. The man was a genius. One reference from the book </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and then I'm done: In 1968 (or thereabouts), Miles Davis played </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">first set at a gig so he could get off early. Don't forget Miles was </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">getting into strange stuff by then, but held back in the wings to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">hear the whole of Adams' set. He dug what Pepper played. How </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">many others would Miles Davis have hung back for?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Here’s a link to the book, where you can read some about it and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">buy it: </span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 452px; overflow: hidden; width: 333px;"><img height="452" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/24rks3sUbPfo1mnijKTBSD4DFOkcqeP6X72yLukCQC-w_3bjMKl-pdmBd5_6AI3HWMlY6TLz0oUpu8jUqOolJFyO3_vszEzmXek1hogF7pkEh3EcaO55xoN0GaM2x-9C3sQmmkU8yOaCW1vmlOMjeDpfx4kn0FcDMfTCWfxpYBc1lV5PiJF0pMFcr8JYOw" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="333" /></span></span></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-47686244752195961092022-10-09T12:11:00.004-06:002022-10-09T12:13:58.153-06:00October Doings<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-78ae0cd3-7fff-177e-0044-c51f7df271ae" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Instead of writing the blog post last weekend, I spent </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">much of my time preparing documents for SUNY Press </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">for the forthcoming paperback edition of the Pepper </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Adams biography. The publisher required a bunch of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">forms, including a Marketing Questionnaire and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Photograph Spreadsheet, that took about twenty hours </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to complete. Fortunately, all of them are now done, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">submitted, and in their hands for processing. I've been </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">told to expect the book to hit Amazon.com and other </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">booksellers late next year.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">For those of you who are adverse to buying or reading </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ebooks, or those awaiting the paperback edition, let me </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">remind you of a few things. The paperback edition is </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">greatly abridged, maybe as much as half of the original </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">text. Moreover, all of the 450 music links are removed. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Also deleted are all of the incredible photographs. My </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">suggestion is to grab the ebook, if for no other reason </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">than to hear all of the great music. I carefully chose my </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">favorites, half of which have never been released! See:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Yesterday was Pepper Adams’s 92nd birthday. Also, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">baritone saxophonist Ronnie Cuber, arguably Pepper’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">first disciple, passed away yesterday. It reminded me of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Harry Carney’s death. He too died on Pepper’s birthday. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">How weird is that?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A few announcements. Several updates have been </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">made to <a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/">https://www.pepperadams.com/</a>. Three musician </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">roundtables that I hosted about Adams are now far more </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">visible on the site's homepage: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/PanelDiscussions.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/PanelDiscussions.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Second, new transcriptions have been added:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Transcriptions/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Transcriptions/index.html</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m also pleased to announce that Noah Pettibon is the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">new co-author, along with John Vana, of the third book </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">on Pepper Adams. Intended as a complement to my </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">biography, this will be a musicological study of Adams’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">style. Their intention is to write it in two parts, one for the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">lay reader, the other for musicians. Vana and Pettibon’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">expected publication date is 2030, Adams’s centennial.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html</span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 454px; overflow: hidden; width: 333px;"><img height="454" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/GLsxLmk12Ic_0Z1XTIjBzZf0avNUJQRdwe2tznf8V0rbdf_gzuxRqN-L_f0UpNhpt7P5iIcgmuCozmb4cUgD6VIuz-NhG1GWmaw9LJreOic9pL7KkJPMAEfa9U-BzvbooVjD0-QkJBrAXEL-8e6Tl11l0i1awlQVKtc1Q3oEczGlvxOiTrlgXT7qzQ" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="333" /></span></span></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-79229823556059562032022-09-04T10:26:00.002-06:002022-09-04T10:31:24.643-06:00Paperback Edition<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Not a post since May? Gosh, where did the time go? I hope </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">everyone had a great summer. I’ve been caught up getting </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the paperback edition of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ready for publication, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">plus satisfying my publisher’s requirements in order to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">acquire their contract. It was quite a lengthy task.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m pleased to announce that SUNY (State University of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">New </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">York) Press has agreed to publish the paperback </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">edition of my </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Pepper Adams biography. As I mentioned in </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the Author’s Note to </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>Reflectory,</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">academic presses limit jazz books to around 250 pages. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Thus, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper Adams: Saxophone Trailblazer, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">will be a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">highly abridged version of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">quite a different book. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-1b36ed3a-7fff-ad3a-1292-2624bad4b51e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stripped down to its essentials, a great deal of detail has been deleted. Many photographs from the Estate of Pepper Adams have been removed, replaced by only a few photographs and documents. The most glaring difference is the removal of all 450 music links and discussion of much of that music.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nevertheless, I’m excited to have a chance to get a hardcopy version out to the public. Plus, the ebook edition will remain in print and available. I see it as the best of both worlds; a great opportunity to get the word out about Pepper Adams</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Cutting down the book was a fascinating exercise. I quickly </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">realized once again how much easier it is to delete text than </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to write it. The mandate was to convert a 730-page book to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">about 165 pages, leaving enough room for an index. The </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">first few steps were easy. I deleted all photographs, changed </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the text spacing from 1.25 inches to 1.15, and omitted all </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">discussion of private and audience recordings. Then, I </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">deleted one of the forewords and combined some of the end </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">matter. That left me with 452 pages. A nice start, but still far </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">from the required goal.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Getting the book shorter required additional spacing tweaks, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">reducing the font of the end matter and block quotes, and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">significant excisions as the end product of two complete re-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">readings. The first one was cut, cut, cut. “Snoops” as Chico </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Marx told Harpo in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Duck Soup, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">after each snip they made of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the boat captain’s mustache. My second pass through </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">allowed me to cut further and smooth out some of the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">transitions that were adversely affected by the deletions. In </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">some cases, it required moving paragraphs around, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sometimes to other chapters.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The paperback edition needs to be submitted by October 15. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fortunately, the text is done, but I have a short window in </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">which to acquire new photographs and documents, get them </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in high-resolution form, obtain written permissions for them, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and write captions. I also have to add a brief discography that </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’ll entitle </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Recommended Recordings. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The index can be </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">submitted later, once the book is edited and typeset.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If anyone can recommend a better title, don’t hesitate to let me </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">know. I’d prefer something poetic, but was advised that having </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“saxophone” in the title would increase sales. Please reply </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">below.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">SUNY is an ambitious press, publishing more than 150 books a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">year. Even with my submission in a few weeks, their lengthy </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">production queue will delay publication for some time. You can </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">expect the book to be available at Amazon and elsewhere </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">around this time next year. Meanwhile, check out </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">dig the thousands of hours of great Pepper performances, taken </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">from broadcasts and audience recordings, that you’ve never heard!: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html "><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 509px; overflow: hidden; width: 374px;"><img height="509" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/fPRf_RXUBR0XoxaPiilugnRsc8czmztxTH7ei_fgnRIWXd2qDVYgVa8FzZ_eeGuAekSDwKNq-ENzKbhh9JdZO5S4ib6Iu3oFUhJvFIl7KrlpHCxRRYxg68HCkrpNime3UCyDRi51f53MGogr5uP27iq3H513SZeX3Uh-UKKAve6ZS7YcI3xhNdzBcA" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="374" /></span></span></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-44501159362136531142022-05-01T14:17:00.001-06:002022-05-01T14:23:37.020-06:00Reflectory Updates<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-0aa89263-7fff-af18-f67a-289e14ea9704" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m sorry I missed last month’s posting. I was working </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">round the clock to get a new ebook draft completed and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">got completely caught up with it that weekend. Then it </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">turned out I couldn’t post it because my publisher, Lulu, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">requires very strict and tricky formatting and I screwed it </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">up. Over the last few weeks I’ve been tediously </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">comparing the old and new versions. But good news: I’m </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">almost done, it's better than it was before, and it should </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">be posted soon as the new and improved Revised Edition.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I want to thank all of you who have purchased my Adams </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">biography. I just hit the 100-sale mark, and that seems </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pretty good considering my marketing campaign thus far </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">has been strictly grassroots and word-to-mouth. I’ve heard </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">some very kind things about the book from people I respect, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">though I’ve gotten a few surprising criticisms. Two stick out. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">One is that they object to my reverse-chronological approach </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to the second half. They favor the conventional birth-to-death </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">progression. Gosh, don't they watch movies? Aren’t </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">flashbacks and retrospective narratives rather common? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Frankly, after writing the first half, I was looking for something </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">different to do with the storytelling. I welcomed the challenge </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to render it this way.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The other objection I’ve heard, albeit only once but in a</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">forthcoming review, is my penchant for writing asides. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Admittedly, after 37 years of work and thought about jazz, I </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">had a lot to say. I was after a contextualized, sociohistorical </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">account of Pepper’s life. Two sections I wrote but eventually </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">deleted </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(</span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Detroitjazz1922-1954.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Detroitjazz1922-1954.pdf</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(</span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Detroitjazz1922-1954.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Detroitjazz1922-1954.</span></a><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Detroitjazz1922-1954.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">, were too off-topic so I parked them at </span><a href="http://pepperadams.com" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">pepperadams.com</a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">. And three times I entitled sections as Interludes to in some </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">way separate it from Pepper’s life story, but, again, to add </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">more depth. In all cases I tried to make the book move </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">ahead quickly. Oh well. As they say, you can’t please </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">everyone.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Some are waiting for the book to be released in hardcover </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and paperback. I have a publisher that is considering the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">book for publication, and I should know in the next month or </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">so whether it will be out this way, maybe even in time for </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Christmas. As expected, I will have to scale down the book’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">length considerably, and it will not include any music links </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">nor nearly as many photographs. The hallmark of the ebook </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">version is its 450 music links, half of which have never seen </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the light of day. So, grab the ebook if you dig Pepper’s playing. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Much of the music is quite obscure, and many of the audience </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">recordings and broadcasts are remarkable!</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 509px; overflow: hidden; width: 374px;"><img height="509" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4bKF6mS5kQRev7cWYLGggLN-R1CqII1lGROngtRqiDHkPXHPNV07hHCD05qo2Es-yrZZGIsaPj02o8U2sO4ytD55H46cmolGvadTAOjXPwZwNJzYQxeqvDpQqFZsFsrQO4N3g7qZ" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="374" /></span></span></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-63935975804276068492022-03-06T17:07:00.001-07:002022-03-06T17:16:18.290-07:00February Doings<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-2b3013bb-7fff-fef5-6135-d4982d5df2e0" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">February was a productive month, even though the great </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">bulk of my Adams work is now completed. First, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pepperadams.com continues to grow as an amazing </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">research and performance tool. The transcription page </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(</span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Transcriptions/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Transcriptions/index.h</span></a><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;"><u>tml</u></span></span>)<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">has now exceeded 100 solos with the addition of new ones</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">by John Vana and Pete Lukas. And you can expect more to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">come, too, as Vana continues to study Adams’s entire oeuvre </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in preparation for his Pepper book. It will be added to my </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">biography and also available individually in time for Adams’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">centennial in 2030. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-2b3606f3-7fff-f2aa-7237-566a406171e1" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m excited to report that Dan Olson, my trusty webmaster, is </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">busy revamping the transcription section of the site so that each </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">transcription is paired with the complete performance of the tune. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In that way, musicians can get deeper into each performance by </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">having both the PDF of each solo and Pepper’s performance of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">it at their fingertips. I hope to see the new page posted soon.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Leif Bo Petersen recently alerted me to a photo of Charlie Parker</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> at the Mirror Ballroom </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CadUnM0prRE/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.instagram.com/p/CadUnM0prRE/</span></a> ).<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">According to his research, this is the actual performance that</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper saw in mid-April, 1949. The photo will be added to the next </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">revision of my ebook. Also, Petersen wrote a very perceptive review </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that will be published in Danish in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jazz Special. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">See </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">English translation below.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">For those who have access to “Hot Sounds on Zoom,” Jazz History </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Database’s weekly internet show, I’ll be on from 5-7pm Eastern this </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Thursday, March 10. I’ll be reading from my Pepper biography and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">playing tunes included as links in the book that have never been </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">heard </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">by the public. I hope to see you there. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Time: This is a recurring meeting; we meet here every Thursday </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">afternoon </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Join Zoom Meeting </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://wpi.zoom.us/j/97495476280" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://wpi.zoom.us/j/97495476280</span></a><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Meeting ID: 974 9547 6280 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">One tap mobile </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+16468769923,,97495476280# US (New York) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+13017158592,,97495476280# US (Washington DC) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Dial by your location </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1 646 876 9923 US (New York) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Meeting ID: 974 9547 6280 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Find your local number: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://wpi.zoom.us/u/acoQBMFqTR" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://wpi.zoom.us/u/acoQBMFqTR</span></a><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Join by SIP </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">97495476280@zoomcrc.com</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Join by H.323 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">162.255.37.11 (US West) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">162.255.36.11 (US East) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">213.244.140.110 (Germany) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Meeting ID: 974 9547 6280 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; 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white-space: pre;">Pepper Adams Biography</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jazz historian Cary Carner, perhaps best known for his documentary </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">compilation The Miles Davis Companion (1996), is in the process of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">creating a comprehensive work about the American baritone \</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">saxophonist </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">Park "Pepper" Adams (1930–86) together with alto </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">saxophonist John Vana. The first part, a biography written by Carner, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">was published in 2021 and is now available in a revised version. The </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">second part, containing musical analyses, written by Vana, will be </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre;">published in the run-up to the 100th anniversary of Adam's birth.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Carner's work is based on many years of thorough research based on </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">an extensive material of interviews with Adams. These are complemented </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">by an impressive collection of interviews with musicians who have played </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">alongside him and other individuals who were part of his life.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I have no doubt that the work will stand as a definitive monument </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">over Pepper Adams, and it will undoubtedly create a broader interest </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in and understanding of his music. Personally, before reading, like </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">many others, I had only a sporadic knowledge of Pepper Adams. He </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">was mostly a name that I often confused with west coast saxophonist </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Art Pepper. When Pepper Adams himself was subjected to such </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">confusion, his comment was: "My sax is bigger" or " No, I never spent </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">time at San Quentin." The lacking recognition of Pepper Adams' position </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is probably due to his main instrument, the baritone saxophone, which </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">as a deep-sounding instrument often has stood in the shadow of the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">other saxophones. Baritone saxophonists have therefore mostly been </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">confined to the role of sidemen in big bands and combos.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Having now listened more carefully to his music, I have become convinced of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the merits of the status he is granted in the book: a jazz improviser in the upper </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">league, a musician who, like others such as Bud Powell, Wardell Gray, Fats </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Navarro, and J. J. Johnson, with point of departure in Charlie Parker's musical </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">language, managed to make this flourish on their own instrument without being </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">an epigone and fully integrated into a personal expression.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The first part of the book covers the years 1930–56. Adams' upbringing and the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">factors that led to his decision to become a jazz musician is treated in four </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">chapters. Here important factors are the possibility to listen to jazz music on </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the radio and at concerts, but not least an American school system that </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">emphasized and allowed for musical expression and education.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">At the same time, these chapters give a thorough insight into the social </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">background he grew up in Rochester, NY, and Detroit, MI. He lived here as </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">an only child together with a mother who had twice in quick succession </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">become a widow. She was overprotective and very controlling even after he</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">returned to Detroit after completing military service in Korea at the age of 23.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">You also get a thorough introduction in the musical environment in Rochester </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and specially in Detroit, which in the 40s had a jazz scene that created excellent </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">modern jazz musicians, such as Howard McGhee, Lucky Thompson, Wardell </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Gray, Milt Jackson, and Hank Jones.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper Adams got his musical maturation in Detroit in the company of a new </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">great generation of musicians such as Barry Harris, Donald Byrd, Tommy </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Flanagan, Frank Foster, and the brothers Thad and Elvin Jones.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The composition of the four chapters is unusual, starting with his and his </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">mother's move to Detroit in 1947 and their lives there until his military service </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">started in mid-1951. It works fine and provides a more varied reading experience </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">than a traditional chronological presentation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The second part of the book, covering the years 1956-1986, deals in 7 chapters </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">with his career as a professional jazz musician and his achievement of the status </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">as an highly outstanding soloist on the baritone saxophone. In this connection </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">we also we get a thorough introduction to the hip neo-bop environment in </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Greenwich Village, NY, in the 1960s.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Here, too, the composition of the chapters is unusual. Starting with the final year </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">leading up to his death, the following chapters move backwards through his life</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and career ending with his arrival in New York in 1956. It again provides a varied </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">reading experience, but after reading you are left with very kaleidoscopic overall </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">impression of Adams' life and career.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Told chronologically, shortly after his establishment in New York, Adams gets </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">a longer engagement with the Stan Kenton orchestra, which for a time takes </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">him to the West Coast. He returns to New York in 1957, where he starts a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">career as a combo musician first in the company of Donald Byrd, Bobby </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Timmons, and Elvin Jones. In the early 1960s he had gigs with Benny </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Goodman, Thelonious Monk, Lionel Hampton and Charles Mingus. In 1964 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">he began a combo collaboration with Thad Jones, and when the Thad </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra was formed in 1965, Adams became a permanent </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">member for the next 12 years. The orchestra did not exist on a full-time basis, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">so during this period he also worked alone as a soloist both in the United </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">States and in Europe. Although he was successful as a big band musician, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">e mostly saw this activity as a survival strategy: "Certainly, there was very</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">little pleasure involved, except for rehearsals. I always like rehearsals with </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">a big band 'cause you've got something to react to: When you're seeing the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">music for the first time and learning to play it, and getting the blend within </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the section and with the other sections. All the stuff you can do at rehearsals, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that's fine.... If I stay in a big band for too long, once I have all that covered, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">then it becomes hack work and is no longer interesting. The next thing is to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">memorize all the parts and see if you can play all night with your book closed </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">– and get dirty looks from the bandleader. After you have that covered, the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">only remaining challenge is to see how drunk you can get and still play the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">book accurately. That can be bad for you after a period of time."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Adams left Jones/Lewis in 1977 to concentrate on his soloistic career, which </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">developing in the following years unfortunately ended abruptly when, in </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">December 1983, he was accidentally run over by his own parked car and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sustained a serious leg fracture. This kept him out of work for a while, and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">when he finally got started again in mid-1984, he was</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">soon after diagnosed with serious lung cancer. He died in 1986 after </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">unsuccessful radiation and chemo treatment.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The book is published exclusively as Ebook, a choice made because the market for </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">such a book in physical form these days is limited. I have become increasingly </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">accustomed to reading books and other written material in digital form. This has </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the advantage that the price of the materials is cheaper and that there is more</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">possibility for the author to write a comprehensive book and to publish revised </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">editions. Some will probably find the level of detail thus obtained for exaggerated </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and distracting, while others will perceive it as an asset seen in a jazz historical </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">research context.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Along with the book you get hundreds of hours of music with Pepper Adams from </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the period 1947–1986 in the company of Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Elvin Jones, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Roland Hanna, Tommy Flanagan, and many others. It is a big plus that the text </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">continuously contains links to the music that is described, so you can easily </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">combine reading and listening.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Gary Carner, Reflectory: The Life and Music of Pepper Adams (revised edition 2022). 559 sider. $ 24,99.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book can be purchased here:</span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #094fd1; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-48112850589619340172022-02-06T11:02:00.004-07:002022-02-06T11:02:53.520-07:00Pepper Adams Doings<p> </p><span id="docs-internal-guid-52fa9365-7fff-87fd-2a02-58f75435d65f"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 180pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s been a while since I posted here. I’ve been dealing with some health issues that kept me away, but now, thankfully, I’m doing better and on the rebound. Since December, I’ve conducted two Zoom roundtables regarding Pepper Adams. Each included 14 musicians and were extremely informative. Here are the links:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 180pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK5g4CRToFA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK5g4CRToFA</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 180pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FrWGp2EyJw" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FrWGp2EyJw</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 180pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As for </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reflectory, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">my full-length Adams biography, the First Edition ebook has been on sale since October. It includes 450 tunes, half of which have never been heard before, plus photographs from the Adams Archive, housed (or soon housed) at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 180pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Revised Edition will be available in a week or so. It corrects errors, improves readability, and includes some additional music links that were somehow overlooked.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 180pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As for </span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.pepperadams.com/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, many new transcriptions have been added here by John Vana:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 180pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Transcriptions/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Transcriptions/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> At last count, there are 98 solo transcriptions to check out, and we’re in the process of adding each Adams performance so that a musician can easily hear the solo they’re attempting to read.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 180pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s where you can buy </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reflectory </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and hear all this fantastic music: </span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-1358079294077296222021-11-07T14:44:00.002-07:002021-11-07T14:46:32.620-07:00Adams Biography Now Available<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-1136fc58-7fff-a7f6-7d6e-90a2b0ca61ec" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">has been available for a month at this site: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I want to thank those of you who were the first to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">purchase my 37-year labor of love. I certainly hope </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">you’re enjoying it: the text, the photographs, and the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">incredible music links. Please let me know what you </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">think of it. Laurent Briffaux in France did (see below), </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and Glenn Wilson emailed me to say that he’s digging </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the info about Detroit. There’s a lot of it!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m just about done correcting those pesky typos that </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">surfaced in the First Edition. The Revised Version will </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">soon replace the First Edition, and I’ll be using it for </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">future sales and reviews, and for what I’ll be reading on </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the audiobook version that I expect to tackle this Spring.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I recently hired a PR firm to promote </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Word of mouth, and Facebook and Twitter posts only go </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">so far. As a result, I’m expecting a flurry of reviews in the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">next few months, which I’ll share with you as they get </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">published.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I did an hour-long interview with Andrew Hadro at </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="http://jazzbarisax.com">jazzbarisax.com</a> that should be posted soon. Also, I’ve </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">organized a panel discussion about Adams with fourteen </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">musicians from the U.S., Canada, and England that will </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">take place on Sunday, December 12. You can watch it live </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">at 2pm Eastern Time and send chat questions, or wait for </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">it to be posted on YouTube. I’ll post information about it in </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">early December. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Here’s Briffaux’s lovely review, one of my first buyers:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Le titre lui-même par sa mise en abime est l'essence du </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">livre. L'auteur, ami du saxophoniste Pepper Adams à la </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">fin de sa vie, lui avait promis de compléter et de publier </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">son histoire. Carner a fait bien mieux: pièce par pièce, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">morceaux par morceaux, il lui construit un monument. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Livre-monde, on retrouve au fil des pages les stars et les </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">passants, les anecdotes et les aventures de toute une </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">scène. Impossible de ne pas y voir des personnages déjà </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">rencontrés, et de pas entendre l'écho de mélodies familières. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chaotique et brillante, c'est la vie de celui qui cherche, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">doute et parfois éclaire un instant votre propre vérité </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">intérieure. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pose un nouveau standard pour les </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">livres qui voudront traiter d'un musicien.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The title says it all, and works as an infinite mirroring device. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The author, a friend of saxophonist Pepper Adams in the last </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">years of his life, had promised to complete his story and publish </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">it. Carner did much better: piece by piece, track by track, he </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">built him a monument. In this meta-book, we meet throughout </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the pages the stars and the passers-by, the anecdotes and the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">adventures of a whole scene. It is impossible not to connect with </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">characters already seen, and not to hear the echo of familiar </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">melodies. Chaotic and brilliant, this is the life of one who seeks, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">doubts and illuminates for a moment your own inner self. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sets a new standard for books on a musician's life. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Moreover, it tells the urgency, the beauty and the luxuriance of life.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 509px; overflow: hidden; width: 374px;"><img height="509" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/UDxmNdWR8bILGNg7xL3JhP5rQiC8lnzQNLoXN3xJs_5Qgm6OSKNPwH0t90bG93M8bnc0PKZmqOT2h8M-EAee1g1hs1W39s0RnC4ks-OgJzahC62Qr1j_b8sr65shsvcPdy0237zC" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="374" /></span></span></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-44373624203225240082021-10-03T11:18:00.003-06:002021-10-03T11:19:46.408-06:00Awaiting Publication<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-b773c760-7fff-f641-9567-5bd9bf45bd67" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I'm not sure what's holding up the release of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> but I just sent an email to Lulu, my publisher, asking for an </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">update. Since submitting the manuscript three weeks ago, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’ve found it impossible to let it go. After 4+ years of intense </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">work, it had become such an important facet of my day. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Accordingly, I’ve been reviewing the first edition, finding some </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">typos and various places to make improvements and increase </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the book’s balance. I just finished sweeping through Chapters </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9-12, and I’ll be doing the same soon for the first 200+ pages. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The idea is to release the upgraded manuscript as a second </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">edition, along with some new music examples, then use it as a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">final version for an audiobook that I’ll produce sometime in 2022. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My thought is to reach an entirely new readership with the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">audiobook; folks who like to listen to books on tape, whether on </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">their phones or in the car.</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m hoping the book gets published this week. I’ll announce it when </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that’s the case. In the meantime, check out these tunes, most of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">which are discussed and included as links in the book: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/RarePerformances/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/RarePerformances/index.html</span></a></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 509px; overflow: hidden; width: 374px;"><img height="509" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/uSqbhFu5VooMp4gFDQvyljtRBdgqnhJLTwHoEIKgOXx7nBVb677i7M_VHJY-eksry8QgiV359j5aGpqIzlrd3zav1OGevwoihvCakLQj88q5ONP-3LwriDQaWNhO6mABfiiEAgHY=s0" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="374" /></span></span></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-14354918533272298952021-09-05T14:22:00.007-06:002021-09-05T14:31:23.422-06:00Pepper Adams Biography is Finished!<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-e8763161-7fff-5952-9e84-4a0bca45dbad" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m thrilled to report that the Pepper Adams biography </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is now officially done! It’s quite a moment for me, after</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">37 years of work and a particularly grueling stretch</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the last four years. I just spent the last eight hours</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">today proofing the first half, adding captions to photos, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">checking music links, and wrapping it up. This after</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">doing the same yesterday to the second half. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The manuscript has been sent to my trusted webmaster, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Dan Olson, who is finishing the formatting before he </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">submits it to Lulu for processing. I’m not sure how much </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">time they’ll need before they ask us to sign off on it before</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">publication, but I’m hopeful that it can be released before </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">month’s end. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Here’s the complete Advance Praise page:</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Advance Praise for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Gary Carner’s deep and painstaking research into the life and music </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of Pepper Adams, coupled with his sure feel for this underappreciated </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">jazzman’s complex personality, has yielded an absorbing biography </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that also reveals much about the jazz life writ large. Carner’s nimble </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">narrative captures Adams as a man of reserve and sensitivity thrown </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">into the always bracing, sometimes exasperating tumult of jazz’s post-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">bop Detroit-to-New York vector.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Reflectory</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> is jazz history of the first rank.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">John Gennari</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Most jazz biographies are predictable chronologies of gigs and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">recordings, friendships and rivalries, kindness and cruelty. We know </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">how they start; we know how they end. Carner’s admiring multi-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">dimensional portrait of Pepper Adams is a delightful corrective. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Irresistibly, it floats from story to story. I couldn’t wait to find out </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">what happens next. Even if readers know Pepper only as a bracing, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">lovely sound, before we are ten pages in we are happily encountering </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">him as a fully-rounded person, reading Yeats, eating ribs, impatient </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">with cliche, searching and finding wherever he goes. It takes lung </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ower to play the baritone saxophone: this biography has the breath of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">life. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Michael Steinman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author, Jazz Lives blog</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Gary Carner has been stalking the life, music, and legacy of the brilliant </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams (1930-86) with an Ahab-like </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">obsessiveness for 37 years. The great news for the rest of us is that Carner </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">has landed his whale. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is a meticulously researched and insightful biography of one of the defining </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">modern jazz musicians of his era and one of the key products of Detroit’s post-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">war bebop explosion. We need more books like this in jazz historiography and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">more authors willing to dig this deeply.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Mark Stryker</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jazz from Detroit</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This comprehensive and insightful study of a major music master fills a yawning </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gap in the writing on Detroit’s jazz scene in its heyday. Even within a constellation </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of huge talents, Pepper Adams shone with his own distinctive light.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Mark Slobin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper Adams was a heartbreakingly great musician who never got the love from </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the jazz press that he deserved, which, in a way, makes him even more important in </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the history of the music because it represents an experience that happens all too </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">often and places Pepper firmly at the heart of the jazz life. As Johnny Griffin once </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">said, “Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of conditions.” But to limit Pepper to the jazz life would be a mistake. He was a man </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of literature and culture, a great reader and thinker, as were many of his heroes, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">notably </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Charlie Parker, and Gary Carner’s loving tribute to him finally delivers some </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">justice to the man and to the whole range and span of his too short and underappreciated </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">but brilliant career.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ben Sidran</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Jazz-Ben-Sidran/dp/0306806134/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=ben+sidran&qid=1614654784&s=books&sr=1-2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Talking Jazz: An Oral History</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Gary Carner’s biography about Pepper Adams honors one of America’s great </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">musicians. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">It is a joy to read and reread, and worth waiting for all these years. Having known and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">worked with Pepper from 1955 until he left us, reading this biography makes you feel </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">that </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">you are there with him. His humor, wit, and devotion to music are all written about </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">in a way that Pepper himself would have loved. Gary Carner has kept this story real.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">David Amram</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Vibrations: The Adventures and Musical Times of David Amram</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"> </p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper Adams was a consummate performer on the unwieldy baritone sax. Perhaps </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">he was insufficiently valued by fans of the music, but never by fellow musicians. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The dedicated research of Gary Carner has uncovered a huge amount of detail about </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">his life, documenting his opinions and his recordings, both official and unofficial.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Brian Priestley </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Mingus: A Critical Biography </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chasin-Bird-Legacy-Charlie-Parker/dp/0195327098/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=brian+priestley&qid=1614652611&s=books&sr=1-1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chasin’ The Bird: The Life and Legacy </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chasin-Bird-Legacy-Charlie-Parker/dp/0195327098/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=brian+priestley&qid=1614652611&s=books&sr=1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of Charlie Parker</span></a></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author Gary Carner must be commended for dedicating much of his life to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">documenting the legacy of the great baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams. Adams was</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">a major contributor to the sub-genre of jazz known as hard bop and his many </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">influential recordings pulsate with excitement and originality. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory: The Life </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and Music of Pepper Adams </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">represents a monumental effort to examine every aspect </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of Adams’s career and the research that has gone into it was carried out in a manner </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">suggesting that no stone has been left unturned. This book exemplifies the best in jazz</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">biography.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Noal Cohen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Co-author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory: The Life and Music of Pepper Adams </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is het overtuigende portret van een </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ernstig </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">onderschatte jazzgrootheid. Gary Carner’s indrukwekkende levenswerk </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">(decennialange research, inclusief 250 interviews) heeft geresulteerd in een uitgebreide </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">biografie die fascinerende lectuur vormt.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory: The Life and Music of Pepper Adams</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> is the persuasive portrait of a seriously underrated jazz giant. Gary Carner’s impressive </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">work of a lifetime (decades of research, including 250 interviews) has resulted in an </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">extensive biography that makes for fascinating reading. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bert Vuijsje</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Co-author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rita Reys: Lady Jaz</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">z and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ado Broodboom Trompet</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Før læsningen havde jeg, ligesom mange andre, kun et sporadisk kendskab til Pepper </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Adams. Dette skyldes måske at hans hovedinstrument var baryton-saxen, der som dybt-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">klingende ofte har stået i skyggen af de andre saxofoner. Efter nu at have lyttet mere </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">indgående til hans musik, er jeg blevet overbevist om den status han i bogen bliver givet: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">en jazz improvisator i den øverste liga; en person, der i lighed med musikere som Bud </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Powell, Wardell Gray, Fats Navarro og J. J. Johnson formåede at få Charlie Parkers </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">musikalske sprog til at blomstre på deres eget instrument uden uden at fremstå som epigoner.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Before reading, like many others I had only a sporadic knowledge of Pepper Adams. This </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is perhaps due to his main instrument being a baritone sax, which, as deep-sounding, often has </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">been overshadowed by the other saxophones. Having now listened more in depth to his music, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I have become convinced of the status he is given in the book: a jazz musician and improviser </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in the top league; a man who, like musicians such as Bud Powell, Wardell Gray, Fats Navarro, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and J. J. Johnson, managed to get Charlie Parker’s musical language to blossom on their own instrument without being epigones.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Leif Bo Petersen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Co-author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Music and Life of Theodore “Fats” Navarro: Infatuation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOMNfx82jZV0P76QFUQuyrdbHrQGqaRuVKZaJz7Hqvn8k-xA1x1v63Idq9FQs85OZMIK5_0jGZF55G4xxWPC3-OhRaPYn-ixpgors4AlaeY-UBSQrTJlSpc7NTvjoRVizkGlF02XgmjA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="143" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOMNfx82jZV0P76QFUQuyrdbHrQGqaRuVKZaJz7Hqvn8k-xA1x1v63Idq9FQs85OZMIK5_0jGZF55G4xxWPC3-OhRaPYn-ixpgors4AlaeY-UBSQrTJlSpc7NTvjoRVizkGlF02XgmjA/" width="170" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-48545275138042247892021-08-01T12:06:00.003-06:002021-08-01T12:08:33.810-06:0060 Days to Publication<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This past month has seen steady progress toward the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">publication of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Reflectory</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">: The Life and Music of Pepper Adams. First, I’ve re-edited </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">for the last time before its September release Chapters 8-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">12. I’ve also submitted final copies of Chapters 2-4 for </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">eBook formatting. Chapters 1 and 5-7 are still out for </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">review.</span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-142d732b-7fff-0235-fc4f-25995cb7f5f1" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Also, most of the book is eBook ready, and that </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">includes </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">a number of photographs. All that remains is incorporating what my readers suggest, formatting the front- and end-matter, inserting new versions of most chapters in place of what’s there already, getting all the music links formatted, and finishing the Music Directory. Things still look good for its September release.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I recently received this wonderful blurb from John Gennari, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that will be added to the front matter:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Gary Carner’s deep and painstaking research into the life </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and music of Pepper Adams, coupled with his sure feel for </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">this underappreciated jazzman’s complex personality, has </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">yielded an absorbing biography that also reveals much </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">about the jazz life writ large. Carner’s nimble narrative </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">captures Adams as a man of reserve and sensitivity thrown </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">into the always bracing, sometimes exasperating tumult of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">jazz’s post-bop Detroit-to-New York vector. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">jazz history of the first rank.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Gosh, I sure am gratified by this! If anyone in the world is </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">an expert on the history and literature of jazz, it’s Gennari. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m adding his last sentence to the book’s cover.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Speaking of Gennari, I now use three quotes as chief </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">epigraphs in the book:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ya gotta be original, man</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> – LESTER YOUNG</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">How many musicians out there are really different?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> – RAN BLAKE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Because jazz demands that musicians find their own sound </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and stamp their performances with a singular individuality, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">those who succeed in music tend to be distinctive, singular </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">individuals</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">– JOHN GENNARI</span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-51292040966735729722021-07-04T17:46:00.004-06:002021-07-04T17:46:57.510-06:00Pepper Adams with the Tommy Banks Trio<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s my original draft for liner notes to Pepper
Adams </p><p>with the Tommy Banks Trio: Live at Room at the
Top, </p><p>Reel to Reel’s forthcoming release. </p><p><br /></p><p>That cat was something else on that horn! </p><p>–COLEMAN HAWKINS </p><p><br /></p><p>Judging from the many accolades that he received from
his </p><p>colleagues before and after his death, Pepper Adams was </p><p>equally esteemed by his elders, contemporaries, and younger </p><p>musicians. Among the old guard, Coleman Hawkins was one </p><p>of
his biggest fans. “Hawkins admired Pepper,” said drummer </p><p>Eddie Locke. “He said, ‘That cat is something else on that </p><p>horn!’ . . . He didn’t say that about many people; he didn’t talk </p><p>about many guys.” According to Gunnar Windahl, Adams’s </p><p>close friend, Don Byas also adored Adams’s playing, and Milt </p><p>Hinton,
out of respect for Pepper’s intellect, dubbed him “The </p><p>Master.”
About Adams, Dizzy Gillespie once rhetorically asked </p><p>David
Amram, “Man, that guy’s phenomenal, isn’t he?” And </p><p>backstage
at a 1985 Adams benefit in New York City, Gillespie </p><p>told Cecil
Bridgewater how much he admired what Pepper had </p><p>done
harmonically with the instrument; how he had utilized the </p><p>baritone sax in a completely different way from other baritone </p><p>players. “His playing was unbelievable,” agreed Clark Terry, </p><p>“just fantastic! I never heard him jump into anything that </p><p>stymied him: any tune, any tempo, any key. He was a </p><p>phenomenal musician, one that could do anything. His </p><p>rhythmic
sense wassuperb, his melodic sense was fantastic. </p><p>He was just a
marvelous person and a marvelous musician.” </p><p><br /></p><p>Adams’s contemporaries were just as effusive in their
praise. </p><p>“He is one of my heroes,” said Bill Perkins.
He’s one of the </p><p>true giants of jazz. He stood out in that rare
group of jazz </p><p>soloists, the great giants of all time, people like
Bird and Prez</p><p>—and John Coltrane has become that. I think
Pepper was that</p><p>on his instrument—and Diz. They’re in an
area where very </p><p>few have done the creative work that they’ve
done. Nobody </p><p>is equal: There are some great young players
around and they </p><p>owe a great debt to him, but Pepper was
monolithic in his </p><p>playing.
Bob Cranshaw concurred with Perkins. “Everyone </p><p>knew he was
a superstar,” declared Cranshaw. “The rest of </p><p>the baritone
saxophonists: They know! . . . In my book he’s </p><p>the Number One
baritone saxophonist. I don’t even think of </p><p>anybody else.” Phil
Woods heartily agreed: “Any baritone </p><p>player that’s around
today,” he avowed in 1988, “knows that </p><p>he was Number One. It’s that simple. He was the best we </p><p>had.” Both Curtis Fuller and
Don Friedman felt similarly: </p><p>“He was the greatest who ever
played the baritone saxo-</p><p>phone,” proclaimed Fuller. Pepper,
asserted Friedman, </p><p>“should be considered the number-one-of-all-time baritone </p><p>player. Nobody ever played as
many years at that level that I </p><p>ever heard. There’s no question about it.” </p><p><br /></p><p>According to Horace Silver, Adams “was an excellent
jazz </p><p>soloist. He could handle any of the chord changes that you’d </p><p>throw up in front of him. That’s the mark of a true, great
impro-</p><p>viser. In my opinion, this is why any of the great jazz
soloists </p><p>get their reputation; because they’re consistent.” Bill
Watrous </p><p>said about Adams, “Every time he played it was an
adventure. </p><p>His ideas and his conception of the stuff that he was
trying to </p><p>play was totally original.” Bassist Nabi Totah
confessed, “I just</p><p>idolized Pepper. Every chorus, you’d think
he’d be getting tired, </p><p>he’d play stronger than the one before.
There seemed to be no </p><p>end to his ideas. He just forged ahead
swinging.” Adams “gave </p><p>a personality to the baritone sax,”
attested trumpeter Denny </p><p>Christianson, “that nobody else ever even came close to. No-</p><p>body could do what he did on his instrument. He could handle a </p><p>melody just like a great singer, but his improvisation was brilliant </p><p>and he had blinding speed.”
Pepper, asserted Junior Cook, “was a </p><p>virtuoso, without a doubt.
He exemplified all the best things that</p><p>any musician – jazz or
otherwise–should aspire to: He had great </p><p>tone, he had great time,
and he had great taste.” </p><p><br /></p><p>For the younger generation, Adams was a paragon of
individuality. </p><p>“There’s very few stylists, real heavyweights,”
bassist Todd </p><p>Coolman once told drummer Ron Marabuto about
Pepper. </p><p>“Maybe five of them. They’re really rare. He’s one of them.” </p><p>Adams was “a true master of his craft,” said Bennie
Maupin, “and </p><p>absolutely one of the finest musicians of his
generation.” </p><p>Saxophonist Kirk MacDonald agreed: “He really
owned the music </p><p>on a very high level.” As bassist Andy
McCloud pointed out, </p><p>Pepper “recorded with all the cats. He was
an unknown genius. He </p><p>was like Dexter [Gordon] and one of
them.” Guitarist Peter Leitch </p><p>said, “When I started to play, I
realized that here’s a white person</p><p>who really played this music
authentically and was still able to be </p><p>himself.” And Gary
Smulyan acknowledged that Pepper “inspired </p><p>me to make a
life-long study of the instrument”:
It kind of made </p><p>me realize why I got into music. It was not to
be a doubler. It was </p><p>not to play all these instruments and get a
Broadway show. It </p><p>was to try to find a voice, and to express your life through an </p><p>instrument. That was it. Pepper was the
inspiration for that. </p><p><br /></p><p>* * * </p><p><br /></p><p>It was Pepper’s blistering, spellbinding solo on “Three
and </p><p>One” from this date that reminded me of Coleman
Hawkins’s </p><p>comment and made me think of including the above
excerpt </p><p>from my forthcoming Adams biography. You see,
musicians </p><p>have always sung Adams’s praises, yet even to this
day he’s </p><p>mostly overlooked, even by jazz historians, as one the
great </p><p>postwar virtuosos. Just check the index of any jazz history </p><p>and you’ll see what I mean. Fortunately, with his extraordi-</p><p>nary
playing on this marvelous release, Adams’s place among </p><p>the
greatest of all jazz soloists should finally be irrefutable. </p><p>And it’s
no surprise at all that it took Cory Weeds, a working </p><p>musician, to
recognize this radio broadcast’s intrinsic value. </p><p>Besides revealing Adams’s brilliance as a soloist, this
perfor-</p><p>mance is a vitally important document because virtually </p><p>nothing exists of his small-group work from this period. Be-</p><p>tween
Encounter (Prestige, 1968), his terrific solo date with </p><p>Zoot Sims,
Tommy Flanagan, Ron Carter, and Elvin Jones, </p><p>and Ephemera
(Spotlite, 1973), his equally superb quartet </p><p>session with Roland
Hanna, George Mraz, and Mel Lewis, </p><p>there’s barely a handful of
recordings in which Pepper takes </p><p>a solo. Furthermore, just a few
obscure Adams audience re-</p><p>cordings exist from this five-year
span that only a few col-</p><p>lectors have heard.
What I found especially fascinating was </p><p>hearing both
“Patrice” and “Civilization and Its Discontents,” </p><p>two very special
Adams originals, performed a full year </p><p>before he recorded them
for Spotlite. This indicates that even </p><p>at this stage of his career,
five years before he left the Thad </p><p>Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra to
go out on his own as a “single,” </p><p>he was composing new tunes not
solely for record dates, as I </p><p>previously believed. “Patrice,” it
turns out, was registered at </p><p>the Library of Congress on October
29, 1970, but might this </p><p>be the world premiere of “Civ?”
For this show, Adams’s select-</p><p>ion of tunes was highly
representative of what he often chose to </p><p>play. With a competent
band, he usually selected a few originals, </p><p>a few Thad Jones
tunes, a standard or two, and he’d customarily </p><p>close his sets with
“’Tis.” He especially liked old show tunes, </p><p>such as “Time on My
Hands” (1930). “Stella by Starlight, of </p><p>course, was by 1972 a
very well-known standard. “’Tis” was </p><p>Thad’s brief, uptempo
out-theme that since 1954 Pepper almost </p><p>always utilized. “Oleo”
served a similar function, though typical-</p><p>ly to both conclude a
concert and stretch out a bit. And “Three </p><p>and One?” One of Thad
Jones’s great compositions, it was an </p><p>Adams feature while he
was a member of Jones/Lewis, and a </p><p>tune that he often called in
small-group settings.
Adams was a </p><p>musician who lived to play, yet whose lust
for life was eroded </p><p>by his long-simmering disappointment at
being defined by pro-</p><p>moters as a big-band baritonist not available
for hire, ignored as</p><p>a true innovator for much of his career, and
barely recorded as a </p><p>leader for most of the 1960s and ’70s. Part
of his uniqueness </p><p>was due to his pedigree as a “jazz man.” As
Eddie Locke explain-</p><p>ed it to me during my 1988 interview with
him, “A real jazz man </p><p>will play his instrument no matter what”:
He’s gonna play. He’s </p><p>not gonna make an excuse for not
playing by saying, “Something </p><p>is going wrong, I can’t play.” If you love it so much, it doesn’t </p><p>make any difference. No
dollars, bad musicians, good musicians, </p><p>mediocre musicians:
You’re gonna blow! Pepper just happened to </p><p>also be a great
player. But he was a real jazz man. . . . A real jazz </p><p>man is rare.
That’s a lifestyle. That’s not just going to school. And </p><p>that’s
what Pepper was about. In Detroit, you played in the joints: </p><p>slop jobs in those old, funky places. That’s a jazz man. He
wasn’t </p><p>trying to play in Carnegie Hall every night. He was just
going to </p><p>play some music because he loved to play. . . . People
wanted to </p><p>play with him because he was a jazz man. . . . I
don’t care who he </p><p>was playing with; he’s gonna sound good
because he’s gonna </p><p>blow! He doesn’t give a shit about the
other cats. If they play the </p><p>wrong change, he’ll play the wrong
one. That’s a true jazz musician. </p><p>Bird was like that. Coleman
Hawkins was like that. I put him in </p><p>some heavy company
there but that’s what I’m talking about. </p><p><br /></p><p>Enjoy! </p><p>Gary Carner
Author of Pepper Adams’ Joy Road and Reflectory: </p><p>The Life and
Music of Pepper Adams</p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-61081773367494381742021-06-06T12:26:00.008-06:002021-06-06T12:30:37.142-06:00Additions to Pepper's Biography<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In terms of moving ahead with Adams’s biography,
May was quite a productive month and June has
started with a bang. The three most important
things that occurred were author Mark Stryker
reviewing and improving Chapter Four, the
discovery of Marc Vasey’s 1985 interview with
Adams, and the emergence of Pepper’s cousin,
Sandra Adams. Stryker was for years the jazz and
arts writer for the Detroit Free Press, who in the last
few years of his gig also covered for the newspaper
local Detroit politics. Stryker is a wonderful writer
who has many years of experience with Detroit’s
jazz scene. Last year he published Jazz from
Detroit, his account of Detroit’s jazz history. The
book includes a number of vignettes about
legendary Detroit musicians, though he told me he
chose not to cover Pepper in a separate chapter
because of restrictions on the length of the book
and because of my work on him. Stryker had much
to say about my chapter about Pepper and Detroit
from 1953 through 1955, and his observations led
to some significant corrections. Many thanks to him
for improving the manuscript.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
For sixty years trumpeter Marc Vasey was involved
with jazz, most notably in the Edmonton, Alberta
area. During that time, he became very friendly with
Pepper, producing many concerts of his there
beginning in 1972. In 1985 he sat down with Adams
and conducted a far-ranging interview with him,
intended for broadcast. I’m only a third of the way
through the conversation but it’s already sent me
back to the manuscript to add new info and alter
some of my text. More, I’m sure, will be added in
the next few weeks.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
Lastly, thanks to pepperadams.com webmaster
Dan Olson, only in the last few days I’ve been put
in touch with Sandra Adams, Pepper’s cousin.
Sandy is the grandchild of Harry Albert Adams,
Pepper’s uncle. She has done considerable
genealogical research about her family, and, like
Vasey, her recollections sent me back to the
manuscript to add color to the text. In the weeks to
come, we do hope to post the Adams genealogy
that Dan and I have been assembling for some
time.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
Notes from the first 25 minutes of Marc Vasey’s
interview with Pepper Adams, November, 1985.
Quotes are from Adams:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
Little John and His Merrymen: Essentially, the
house band at Club Valley was John Wilson’s band.
Wilson was a good lead player who played with
Lunceford, though not much of a soloist. 7 pieces:
tp, as; ts; bs; plus three rhythm (p; b; dm). Alto was
mostly Cleveland Willie Smith, a disciple of Tadd
Dameron, who wrote most of the arrangements.
Adams wrote a few and Frank Foster wrote some,
once he joined the band. Tenor at first was Warren
Hickey, who was in one of Gillespie’s first big
bands. Yusef Lateef replaced him, then Foster.
James Glover was their bassist, who had played
with Dinah Washington.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
1950s Detroit club scene: “It was then in the
process of changing, in that the money was fleeing
downtown for the suburbs, and once it got to the
suburbs it stayed there.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
On moving back to Detroit after discharge from
the army: “It seemed like a good time to
accumulate a little money, not a great deal, but
enough to get a start going in New York.”
Clarinet: “I actually continued playing clarinet much
longer than I really wanted to because Thad wrote
a few things in my book calling for clarinet. And I
hated it. As much as I loved to play clarinet, when
you have a baritone book there with about five or
six pieces calling for clarinet, no matter how well
you warm up at the beginning of the evening, the
first piece isn’t going to be called until about three
hours later, and the reed has now become
corrugated, and the instrument is cold and out of
tune. And so that’s no fun at all. Fortunately,
clarinets are pretty small and are easy to steal. By
the time about the third one got stolen, I convinced
Thaddeus it just wasn’t worth it. So since that
event, I have happily subsisted with only the one
instrument to worry about.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
Leo Parker: “. . . Leo Parker, who I heard live a
couple of times. I think he played better than the
records tend to indicate.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
Tate Houston: “. . . Tate Houston in Detroit, who
was a fine baritone player, a fine soloist. . . .Tate
was not very much into harmonic exploration, but
just playing the simple changes and playing with
good time, which, in itself, was extraordinary on the
baritone.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
About his NYC union-card transfer: “For six
months you were not supposed to take more than
two jobs a week and you’re not supposed to travel
at all.” Because he joined Stan Kenton’s band
before the six-month period was over, he gave the
union Elvin Jones’s address of 202 Thompson
Street and asked him to cover for him if and when
the union’s representative came around to verify
Adams’s whereabouts. On one day, Elvin signed for
Pepper when an out-of-shape, exasperated union
rep looking for Adams trudged too many times on
the same day up to Jones’s apartment on the top
floor of a five-floor walk-up.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
First NYC gigs: Some were small-group things
with Oscar Pettiford.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
Charles Mingus: “I would go and work with him for
a week or two if he had some extra payroll and
could squeeze another horn into a gig and make it
a sextet rather than a quintet. I would often get the
call because I knew at least some of the music and
could figure out enough so I wouldn’t be totally out
of place. . . . Some of the bands were fun and some
of the music was good, but some of the 45-minute
speeches from the bandstand were rather
embarrassing. . . . He could be a difficult man to
deal with at times.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
Byrd-Adams recordings: “Some of them are not
up to the standard that the band played night after
night. . . . Blue Note seemed to want to add another
horn, so of course it’s not the band that’s working
all the time. So we had to write new arrangements
and change everything. Blue Note always wanted
some things a shuffle, no matter what, on every
album, which we were able to avoid on the live
album [from the Half Note] . . . to make it
commercial. They were very interested in trying to
get something that was saleable.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">
Duke Pearson Big Band: “Duke Pearson had a
really nice band. . . how ill-served that band was by
Blue Note. The band only made two albums and
neither one really showed how really musical that
band is. Each one did have its boogaloo attempt in
it, and one of them is really poorly recorded. . .
Although each album does have some terrific
things in it, neither one shows what a good band
that band was.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Ckc6Izgbodj_Dtz_VvBLUe-nsRREGbO6iensn-_R_GGGF6ql-gl8JY6LpdeSjT5_8GCCsLAxfcRYcB3y5CB1KJ7J59orV3KuUJTf_A5AxKHDQxjLfNJ7hGEX3UpDPn8qsnmtamerm4c/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="356" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Ckc6Izgbodj_Dtz_VvBLUe-nsRREGbO6iensn-_R_GGGF6ql-gl8JY6LpdeSjT5_8GCCsLAxfcRYcB3y5CB1KJ7J59orV3KuUJTf_A5AxKHDQxjLfNJ7hGEX3UpDPn8qsnmtamerm4c/" width="169" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-68196698142809448732021-05-02T09:42:00.001-06:002021-05-02T09:48:50.003-06:00Pepper Doings, April 2021<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-f1795db2-7fff-b409-d00d-546bf843fe10" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-da556a62-7fff-7376-b1e9-f58ae7085cfd" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-aae45c24-7fff-b6d1-f1b0-f4c067e14488" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Before signing off on Chapter Three, my account of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Adams’s experience in the US Army, I decided to send </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">my final draft to a reader for his feedback. Although this </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">is one of my shortest chapters, I think I’ve been dealing </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">with this material for such a long time that perhaps I’ve </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">lost some perspective. Hopefully he’ll agree that it’s in </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">OK </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">shape and, apart from some minor changes, I can </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">finally put it to bed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I started a demanding full-time job five weeks ago and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">my </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">progress on the book has been slowed down. I still </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">think I’m on track to publish in September, but the most </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">important thing is to ensure that it’s in the best shape </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">that I can muster.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m excited to report that a very significant cache of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pepper tapes and interviews have recently been trans-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ferred to a producer/musician who is restoring them, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">releasing some of it to the public, and making all of it </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">available to me for study. Although I can’t yet reveal </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the source of the material or its newfound recipient, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’ve been aware of the collection for over thirty years </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and am so excited that I’ll soon have a chance to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">analyze the material and consider it for inclusion in </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">biography. Typically, all of Pepper’s interviews </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">yield gems, so it’s likely that I’ll discover something </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">new for the book. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Adams discography has been updated with new </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">discoveries: </span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/JoyRoad/DiscoUpdates.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/JoyRoad/DiscoUpdates.pdf</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Yesterday I had a wonderful conversation with the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">eminent </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">blogger Michael Steinman. He’s perhaps the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">first person who really understands what I’ve tried to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">do with the narrative structure of the biography, and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">who has the breadth of knowledge about the subject </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">to truly grasp how I tried to diverge from the typical birth-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">to-grave, tragedy or romance, cliched approach. After </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">our call, he wrote this wonderful blurb that I’ll be using </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">as advance praise</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(</span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/AdvancePraise.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/AdvancePraise.pdf</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">):</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Most jazz biographies are predictable chronologies of gigs </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and recordings, friendships and rivalries, kindness and cruelty. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We know how they start; we know how they end. Carner’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">admiring multi-dimensional portrait of Pepper Adams is a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">delightful corrective. Irresistibly, it floats from story to story. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I couldn't wait to find out what happens next. Even if readers </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">know Pepper only as a bracing, lovely sound, before we are </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ten pages in we are happily encountering him as a fully-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">rounded person, reading Yeats, eating ribs, impatient with </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cliche, searching and finding wherever he goes. It takes lung </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">power to play the baritone saxophone: this biography has the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">breath of life. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">–</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 2.25pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Michael Steinman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Author, Jazz Lives blog</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Next weekend I’ll get a jump on Chapter Four corrections. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Happy springtime. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 202px; overflow: hidden; width: 143px;"><img height="202" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/o6TosH11z8TmV_Ojh-MCBQ4W6RqoKKwLjPWN1bByfwXA7FpLAcL4bE3K2tRsWpC93STejrt0w1kePSEqxExn_WJqWNoVkkDGfNpsfVO3A0vk14BCWCpuC4fkJkR88xVWmaX-bjKu" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="143" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-18092989867161871412021-04-04T07:39:00.003-06:002021-04-04T07:50:06.136-06:00Audiobook Anyone?<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-80e5f1bb-7fff-297a-791d-5d3a9b020d44" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">After a year of pleading, I finally acquired five tunes from </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Adams’s November 16, 1985 gig from the Bassment (yes, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that’s the correct spelling) in Saskatoon, Canada. Already </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">deep into his cancer, Adams sounds tremendous. That </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">further </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">suggests to me that he played superbly throughout </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">at least February, 1986, after which his illness and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">medical treatments </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">appreciably wore him down. Unfortunately, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">there </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">are precious </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">few Adams audience recordings after that </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">time, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">though the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">few </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">that exist suggest a lessening of his </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">powers in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">his last </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">eight </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">months of life.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-0f1c2931-7fff-000c-6fb2-77f2de08e4d4" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Earlier in the month, I decided to pour through one last box of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">notes, sorted as “Analysis,” that I had been saving. I wondered </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">if I made any observations that might be germane to the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">biography, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">whether overtly or even obliquely. I turned out that, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">yes, I had a few </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">scraps of paper with notes on them that I could </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">actually use. Some </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">regarded comments I scribbled about certain </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">recordings. I also </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">discovered at long last three missing pages from </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">my Adams interview </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">transcript in which he talks about his fondness </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">for Francis Poulenc and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">William Walton. I was able to add that, as </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">well as some notes about the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">diminished scale and Clark Terry’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">comment to me about Ellington’s </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Jack </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the Bear” and how that’s </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">likely source for Pepper's composing </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">for bass and baritone as </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">two voices. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Lastly, I received from one of my final readers a few minor corrections </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">regarding the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;">biography's </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;"> front matter. I’m awaiting his critique of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chapters 1-4 (1930-1955), plus another reader’s critique of Chapters </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">5-12 </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">(1956-1986). Work still continues on the book’s directory of 450 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">tunes. It’s </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">really incredible to have a kind of “Best of” collection all in </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">one place, without </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">having to scramble for tracks on an LP, cassette, or </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">CD. I think you’re going </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">to be amazed by this addition to the eBook. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">I’m </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">still on track for a September, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">2021 release. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">To that aim, in the last week I tightened up my Prologue and first</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">chapter with some </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">editorial </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">improvements. I’ve also decided (I had</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">forgotten about it) to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">produce an </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">audiobook version of the biography. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Perhaps that will take </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">away some of the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">sting of it only at first being </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">released as an eBook? </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Can anyone advise me on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">how to go about </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">this? Is iTunes or Amazon </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the preferred vehicle? Any idea on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">pricing? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’ve got some upcoming Zoom lectures at Ball State University, the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">University </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">of Wisconsin, Appalachian State, and the University of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Missouri. If any are </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">recorded, I may share them at <a href="http://pepperadams.com">pepperadams.com</a>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">All the best!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 505px; overflow: hidden; width: 356px;"><img height="505" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/o64oBmSgTNg-Kj7_BomL_ZFiV_r4vOdUm2PMwSCoqESmYdrEHOW_ea0RehGS0f3jGNk87XwYw88NY4NsVPN_CjJOJnh1cdcylJ0DYcbbqATBTlvay_8BYK-kwzcbzz8cwSaKhA3e" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="356" /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-87444646208660558282021-02-28T13:42:00.003-07:002021-02-28T13:42:49.820-07:00Homestretch<p> </p><span id="docs-internal-guid-4d9fabbb-7fff-f5d5-81f1-57762742516f"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 193.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m in the homestretch before beginning to format the eBook. I only have two more readers remaining. The esteemed Brian Priestley just sent me about forty corrections regarding my second half of the bio. Although most are typos, a few are very astute historical corrections, such as the date Birdland stopped promoting jazz and identifying Kenton’s “Intermission Riff.” I'm awaiting one more critique, then I pass it on to my penultimate reader. Once done with any corrections, it’s passed to my final reader to double-check I didn’t screw up anything.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 193.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Priestley mentioned that my reverse chronology was a little hard to follow in Ch. 5. I’ve since reconfigured the chapter, subdividing it into two, and moving some of the text to another chapter. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 193.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My webmaster is building a 450-tune directory for the final eBook. Half the tunes have never been heard; some amazing music. That’s hundreds of new Pepper Adams, mostly from audience recordings. About this, see: </span><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html</span></a></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 193.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 505px; overflow: hidden; width: 356px;"><img height="505" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/PFT9wyhuoMDOcOvu4ctaSJdf1lfwAidmX1P-5MYpmmXqQeCYb9MXn1bhjOyCJDFPw9qk5xYMPHHuKpwI58ZEwGDM4kVhoUCZCB873KkMMRnbTUNDU3TGqoECTJwN4qYkr78qT1pp" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="356" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 193.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><div><br /></div></span>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-32053607271698402652021-02-01T14:17:00.003-07:002021-02-01T14:21:08.255-07:00Reflectory due in September<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The improved hi-def version of Pete Lukas’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">book cover has been </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">finished and it </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">looks great. Other last-minute details are shaping up before </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">publication of my 400-page </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Adams biography. I’ve gone through a final editing </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">pass of Chapters 1-3, with 4 awaiting. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">After that’s done, “Ascent,” the first half </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">of the biography will be done, though I’ll likely read </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">it one last time as a hard </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">copy. </span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-5d340378-7fff-08c9-33c9-f35f81751f0d" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I’m awaiting one reader’s comments, who will soon be starting his look at my </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">second half. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Then I’ll incorporate his recommendations, send it off to another </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">reader, then read through </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">them twice before printing it as a hard copy and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">making my absolutely final pass.</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Two other things need to be done before publication. First, I have to embed </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">all the music </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">links in the text. Before they’re active, they have to be posted at</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://pepperadams.com"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">pepperadams.c</span></span>om</a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">in a </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">directory, only available to future purchasers of the book. Lastly, the text </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">needs to be </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">formatted as per Lulu’s instructions to produce their version of an </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">eBook. A summer or </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">September publication date is starting to look likely. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Here’s some advance praise: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 216pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/AdvancePraise.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/AdvancePraise.pdf</span></a></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-6171500294033480692021-01-05T08:43:00.000-07:002021-01-05T08:43:30.744-07:00Blowin' Hot and Cool<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">© Gary Carner. Copyright Protected. All rights reserved.</span></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Happy New Year everybody! We made it through 2020. A few days ago, on </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">New </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Year’s Eve, I sent my final draft of the first part of the Adams bio to two </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">readers </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">for final comments and edits. After emailing them, in a rush of excite-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">ment, I com</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">manded my new Amazon Echo to play Pepper Adams, and, lo </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and behold, the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">first tune it played was “Time on My Hands.” How prophetic!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In recognition of finally concluding my work on the biography, last week I de-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cided, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">as a kind of rite of passage, to finally read John Gennari’s exhaustive </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">study of jazz </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">criticism that he published in 2005. I figured it’s the least I could </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">do, considering all </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the time he spent reviewing my Adams manuscript. If </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">nothing else, I thought, I </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">could </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">catch up on various topics, such as gender,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">black, and literary studies, or the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">vicissitudes of the various culture wars, that </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">have ensued since I walked away from </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">academia in the nineties. Maybe, too, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">I could use snippets here and there as a clever </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">way to do some fact-checking </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">on my bio, or even buttress some of my commentary </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">with a few of his pithy </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">quotes? </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I say pithy because I’ve known John since around 1990, when I invited him to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">write an </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">article on the history of jazz criticism for an anthology of articles about </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">jazz literature I </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">was editing for the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Black American Literature Forum. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pithy, also, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">because his keen </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">intellect, expansive knowledge of jazz and American culture, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and wonderful prose style, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">I felt, was bound to reveal some clever turns of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">phrase I could grab, or interesting </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">perspectives to reconsider, for my bio at the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">eleventh hour.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Since the publication of his terrific article, Gennari spent the next fifteen years </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">re</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">search</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">ing the field, reading widely, and writing about his many observations. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">The result</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> is </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">one of the most </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">important books ever </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">written about jazz. Jazz fans love to talk about “desert </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">i</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">sland records,” the handful of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">indispensable recordings they would want with </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">them if they got marooned on a desert </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">island a la Tom Hanks in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Cast Away,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Similarly, Gennari’s book is definitely one of a </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">hand</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">ful of books that I’d want </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">with me if I was washed up somewhere. I recommend it to any</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">one </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">who wants </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">a much fuller appreciation of the art form.</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What Gennari has achieved is no less than a dazzling literature review of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">jazz’s history, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">but as seen through the writings of many of its most distinguish-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">ed English-language </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">commentators. So many of the early jazz histories that </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">he discusses and comprised my </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">very large and now defunct jazz library (that </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">I donated to Georgia State University) are </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">books I’ve never had a chance to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">read. Gennari summarizes each work with depth, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">showing how they in-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">fluenced jazz discourse, commerce, and subsequent generations of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">writers.</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Written with wit, unprecedented erudition, and an impressive command of the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">subject, I </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">was blown away by its breadth. To his credit, this monumental book </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">is not a history of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">jazz’s recordings or musicians per se, though the author </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">discusses many. Instead, unlike </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">all other studies of jazz, he has moved the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">focus from musicians to, as he writes, “the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">channels of distribution to make a </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">less static model of jazz.” In this manner he discusses </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">how jazz critics served </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">as middle-men arbiters between the musicians and their audience, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">and he </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">analyzes their many sectarian arguments and how they influenced the history </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the music, all the while bringing to bear his deep understanding of gender, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">literary, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">political/historical, and American cultural studies. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Thumbing through the book, it’s amazing how much ground Gennari covers, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and it’s clear </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">why he needed fifteen years to finish his exhaustive study. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">There’s </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">just nothing like it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Here’s someone who has listened widely, thought </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">deeply, and probably read more </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">thorough</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">ly about jazz than anyone before or </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">since. With his singular focus, he’s certainly </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">a man after </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">my own heart.</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">As a biographer, I greatly enjoyed all of the biographical portraits in the book. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Some, such </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">as </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the ones about Leonard Feather and John Hammond, for </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">example, are rendered at con</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">siderable length and crafted with tremendous </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">grace. In the great Whitney Balliett tradition, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">they give the book a real sense </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">of immediacy, and nicely counterbalance some of his more </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">weighty intellectual </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">forays. Further, they served as a source of nostalgia for me, rekindling </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">my past </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">associations with a number of prominent jazz writers, most notably Martin </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Williams, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Nat Hentoff, Dan Morgenstern, Gary Giddins, Stanley Crouch, and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">especially Albert Gold</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">man, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">but also others I’ve come in contact with over the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">years, such as Barry Ulanov, John </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Szwed, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Bob Blumenthal, and Francis Davis. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">It made me recall the time John Hammond </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">popped in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">one day as a guest of </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">John Lewis’s, who was teaching the jazz history survey </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">class I took at </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">City </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">College of New York in the early 1980s. It also rekindled my memory of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">only experi</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">ence I had with Nat Hentoff, when I needed to get his permission to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">republish </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">a piece he </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">wrote on Miles Davis. How cranky and miserable a person </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">I felt he was; what a </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">difficult shit, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">I was left thinking.</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In Gennari’s description about record collectors’ zeal for hunting down obscure </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">recordings, I </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">remembered those times in my teens when I took hour-long bus </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">rides from the northern </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">New </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Jersey suburbs to the Port Authority bus station, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">then walked to 42nd Street to comb </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">record </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">stores for obscure blues records </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">recorded by Arhoolie, Delmark, and other indepen</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">dent labels. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">In the 1970s, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">42nd Street was really dicey. I always walked the streets really </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">quickly and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">moved with a palpable unease until I reached my destination. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In the end, yes, Gennari’s book did help me ground some of the comments I </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">made in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reflectory, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">my forthcoming Adams bio</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I added a few new quotes to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">further contextualize my </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">points, some regarding “The White Negro,” and how </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the rock/youth culture affected jazz </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">after Pepper Adams moved to New York </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">City.</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">As I get my ideas together for a six-week jazz history class for college edu-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cated Georgian </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">adults, I wonder how Gennari’s book will inform me. The class, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">“Jazz Lives,” borrows its </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">title from Michael Steinman’s blog, in which he says </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">that “lives” is both a verb and a noun. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Will I lean towards the deification of four </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">or five jazz figures I’m covering? Will I present </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">portraits of their lives? Maybe I </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">will come up with my own synthesis? I’m not sure, though </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">the class begins on </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">January 13. One thing that still sings for me, and will serve as a kind </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of mantra </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">for the class, is this from </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Blowin’ Hot: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Because jazz demands that musicians </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">find their own sound and stamp their performances with a singular individuality, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">those who </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">succeed in music tend to be distinctive, singular individuals.” </span></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 500px; overflow: hidden; width: 331px;"><img height="500" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/vaFf1pmCAw2pmeaA2l9GQyA83o9N7b1NxBZLzKj2MzScYXveyhau2pnnNr7hi9--UHSXycUfrlHNMXIyDgDR1_yJEDxK0mXI9Gy7mvNayTmLIFlsZNGGfHFebSjhc4qn89qJy5Uw" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="331" /></span></span></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210176749425724889.post-29141944361986625182020-12-06T14:25:00.004-07:002020-12-06T14:25:28.169-07:00Pre-Christmas Doings<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Gosh, the year is soon coming to an end, something I think everyone</p><p>is eager to see. I've ben busy acclimating to the dry, high-altitude </p><p>climate of Utah. It's quite beautiful and rugged here, but I'm not able</p><p>to enjoy the perks of living in a city due to COVID. Other than things</p><p>being close by and convenient, I can't visit the museums, or partake in </p><p>the restaurants or nightlife.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe that's partly a good thing? In the last few weeks, I've had the </p><p>time to revise my entire Pepper Adams biography, making, in some cases, </p><p>appreciable improvements. It's great to get some distance from the </p><p>manuscript, thereby catching errors and improving its readability. I'm only </p><p>waiting for the responses of a few readers before I begin formatting the book </p><p>for publication. That process includes posting a number of previously </p><p>unknown recordings to YouTube, and linking them to the book. Infusing the </p><p>text with numerous links to the music I'm discussing is one advantage of </p><p>producing an eBook. At around 400 pages, I'm envisioning a $19.99 price.</p><p>Is that a good value? Please let me know.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime, enjoy these newly restored videos, posted at <a href="pepperadams.com">pepperadams.com</a></p><p>They are four superb solos that Adams did in Montreal in 1978: </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um8G4Hadg-0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um8G4Hadg-0</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPHtIdTcj2w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPHtIdTcj2w</a><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb_f80ke1aE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb_f80ke1aE</a><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erg6Egbwc3o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erg6Egbwc3o</a><br /></p>http://gc-pepperadamsblog.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/15596979185803310583noreply@blogger.com0