He’s gruff, then he’s constructivist, he’s like a babbling brook, and then like a torrent. This extended solo is an unbelievable feat of variety, not to say stamina. In all, he keeps a whirling maelstrom of invention going for virtually eleven minutes. Right from the moment he jumps off the edge and starts improvising, the flow of ideas is completely unstoppable. In the first tune, Thad Jones’ “Three and One” (*), we hear the way he dispatches the ‘head’, clearly and purposefully enough…but then (hold on to your horses…) he’s away. That willingness to court the unknown has a defining influence on the way he plays on this live date. Totally unlike fellow baritonist Gerry Mulligan, who consecrated huge thought and effort into developing his own bands, Pepper Adams was happy to take to the road on his own, and to play with whatever local rhythm section happened to be on offer.
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