Thursday, February 9, 2012
Pepper Adams Week in New York City
Friday, February 3, 2012
International Celebration of Pepper Adams
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Musicians performing Adams tunes:
Los Angeles: Dale Fielder
San Francisco: Ron Marabuto
Minneapolis/St. Paul: Phil Hey
New York: Frank Basile
Tarrytown NY: Alexis Cole
Washington: Brad Linde
Champaign/Urbana: Glenn Wilson
Chicago: Jeremy Kahn
London: Pete Lukas and Gary Smulyan
Toronto: Pat LaBarbera
Montreal: Andre White and Cameron Wallis
Stay tuned for the full schedule.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Dale Fielder to Perform the Entire Adams Songbook
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Saxophonist Dale Fielder will be the first musician to ever play the entire oeuvre of Pepper Adams--all 43 compositions--in four concerts, tentatively scheduled for October 18-21 in Los Angeles. Much like hearing the cycle of Shostakovich's string quartets over a few days, Fielder will perform, with a local rhythm section, Adams' challenging tunes, likely at three different clubs, though probably not in chronological order. These performances will give listeners a chance to hear the totality of Adams' compositional output and to buy the 6-CD box set Pepper Adams: Complete Compositions. Signed copies of my newly published Pepper Adams' Joy Road: An Annotated Discography, at 40% off retail, will also for sale. Stay tuned for more details on this historic event and on my North American and European book/CD tour.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
The Incomparable Pepper Adams
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As part of my 6-CD box set project, here are the tunes I've proposed for a "Best of Pepper Adams" anthology. My apologies to any triskaidekephobics out there, but it does fill up 80 full minutes What do you think?
1. Lotus Blossom (Jimmy Witherspoon)
2. Chant Donald Byrd (studio version, with Herbie and Doug Watkins)
3. Bossa Nova Ova (Thad Jones-Pepper Adams)
4. East of the Sun (Toots Thielemans)
5. Day Dream (Pepper Adams-Donald Byrd)
6. Baptismal (Stanley Turrentine)
7. Three and One (Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra)
8. I've Just Seen Her (Pepper Adams)
9. Gone With the Wind (unreleased: Pepper Adams with strings)
10. Salt Peanuts (Pony Poindexter)
11. Moanin' (Charles Mingus)
12. Sophisticated Lady (Donald Byrd)
13. That's All (Pepper Adams)
Monday, January 2, 2012
Pepper Adams discography update
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Pepper Adams Blog: Dale Fielder Record Byrd-Adams Songbook
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Dale Fielder Record Byrd-Adams Songbook
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