Pepper Adams Quintet

Pepper Adams | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 27, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vsop Records
• ASIN: B000003BAL
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #302,409 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No salt here, only fine Pepper!, March 11, 2001

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William Faust (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pepper Adams Quintet (Audio CD)

First of all, the track listing on amazon.com's page for this CD is wrong. There are 5 tracks - Unforgettable (nice medium swing edition of the classic), Baubles, Bangles and Beads (up-tempo bop styling of this chestnut), Freddie Froo (a lightning fast bop romp on a Pepper original), My One and Only Love (nice ballad) and Muezzin' (a medium tempo original). This is a first rate west coast recording session from 1957. The personnel include Adams (bari sax), Stu Williamson (trumpet), Carl Perkins (paino), Leroy Vinnegar (bass) and the infamous Mel Lewis on drums. Another gem from reissue king-pin VSOP Records. Highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Freddie Froo- is Pepper's solo edited? shortened?, June 28, 2011

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KnightinTunisia (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pepper Adams Quintet (Audio CD)

Pepper Adams is outstanding... but I think the digital versions (cd and MP3) have edited his solo from the LP record version... that one is almost 9 minutes long... cd version is 6 minutes... I am pretty sure I am right... his solo is simply shorter on the cd and digital versions and I wish "they"- whoever "they" are, didn't do this. I believe this was originally a subsidiary of Pacific Jazz, who similarly tinkered with a great Jim Hall record he recorded for them years back, "Jazz Guitar", in which the "original concept was damaged by Bock's senseless tinkering, since it was the solos of bassist Red Mitchell and pianist Carl Perkins (whose discography is already limited enough due to his premature death) that were shortened or removed by the original producer." I guess it's not that big a deal and not that noticeable as we casually listen to this and many, many jazz tunes... and I may be a bit of a stickler, but now I have to have both... "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"... and when it comes to music, even if you think it's broke... I'll take the original every time!