Pepper Adams' Joy Road is more than a compendium of sessions and gigs done by the greatest baritone saxophone soloist in history. It's a fascinating overview of Adams' life and times, thanks to colorful interview vignettes, drawn from the author's unpublished conversations with Adams and other musicians. These candid observations from jazz greats about Adams and his colleagues reveal previously unknown, behind-the-scenes drama about legendary recordings made by John Coltrane, Charles Mingu...

A compelling biography of virtuoso, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams and how his life intersected with some of the greatest poets, writers, painters, and musicians of his time.Pepper Adams is more than a definitive biography of Park "Pepper" Adams (1930–1986). The culmination of thirty-seven years of research, it's a fascinating account of Adams's life and times, thanks to colorful vignettes drawn from the author's 250 unpublished conversations with Adams...

Mark Stryker: "Reflectory is a meticulously researched and insightful biography of one of the defining modern jazz musicians of his era and one of the key products of Detroit’s postwar bebop explosion. We need more books like this in jazz historiography and more authors willing to dig this deeply." Ben Sidran: "Gary Carner’s loving tribute . . . finally delivers some justice to the man and to the whole range and span of his too short and underappreciated but brilliant career." 550 PAGES. 4...