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I’m eagerly awaiting the release of Pepper Adams: Saxophone Trailblazer.
The ship date is September 1. It’s the abridged version of Reflectory:
The Life and Music of Pepper Adams, the ebookthat I published in 2021, four days before Adams’s 91st birthday:
https://www.pepperadams.com/Reflectory/index.html
The paperback is available as a pre-order:
https://sunypress.edu/Books/P/Pepper-Adams
It can also be pre-ordered on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. See the
links below.
If anyone is interested in reviewing it, request a review copy here:
https://sunypress.edu/Requests/Request-for-Media-Review-Copies
An excerpt of the paperback appeared recently on Ethan Iverson’s
newsletter Transitional Technology (#TT 288) to correspond with the
book’s upcoming publication: https://iverson.substack.com/
Frank Basile sent me a link to 314 E 6th St #10, the apartment that Adams
and Elvin Jones shared in mid-1959. It looks rather posh now but it certainly
wasn’t then: https://streeteasy.com/building/314-east-6-street-new_york/10
On October 8, 2023, Pepper’s 93rd birthday, Aaron Lington and I will be
hosting the fifth Adams Roundtable. As with all of them, it will be eventually
posted on YouTube and at https://www.pepperadams.comThe fourth installment, still in the editing phase, will be posted in the next
month or so. The previous three can be found here:
https://www.pepperadams.com/PanelDiscussions.html
Here’s the roster thus far for #5:
Noah Pettibon: unknown solo
Pat LaBarbera: Reminiscing in Tempo
Bevan Manson: Compositional Aspects of Selected
Pepper Tunes
Aaron Lington: unknown solo
Glenn Wilson: unknown solo
Jason Marshall: unknown solo
Danny Harrington: unknown solo
Russell Scarbrough: Thad, Pepper, and Mingus
Gordon Vernick: unknown solo
John Vana: “Lover” (1977)
Kevin Goss: "My Shining Hour" (1980)
Joseph Trahan: “Alone Together” (1983)
Ronnie Burrage: “Dobbin” or “Doctor Deep” (1985)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pepper-adams-gary-carner/1143138665
