Pepper Adams

saxophone baritone · 1930–1986 · Highland Park (Michigan)

A native of Michigan, Pepper Adams is a baritone saxophonist with a powerful sound and fast phrasing, a figure of Detroit and New York hard bop. He co-led a quintet with Donald Byrd in the late 1950s.

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Styles

• Hard bop

Landmark tracks

• The Long Two/Four (1958)

Sources

• Source

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