Pepper Adams

The complete original album The Jimmy Knepper-Pepper Adams Quintet (Metrojazz E1004), which marked the two musicians’ first recorded collaboration, and one of the very few they made in a quintet format. They are backed here by a splendid rhythm section including Wynton Kelly on piano, Doug Watkins on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums. A complete session featuring almost the exact same group, with alto saxophonist Sonny Redd replacing Knepper, has been added as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

• PEPPER ADAMS, baritone sax
• JIMMY KNEPPER, trombone
• WYNTON KELLY, piano (also organ on 6)
• DOUG WATKINS, bass
• ELVIN JONES, drums

New York, March 25, 1958

TRACKS:

• 01 MINOR CATASTROPHE
• 02 ALL TOO SOON
• 03 BEAUBIEN
• 04 ADAMS IN THE APPLE
• 05 I DIDDN'T KNOW ABOUT YOU
• 06 PRIMROSE PATH
• 07 WATKINS PRODUCTION*
• 08 STOP*
• 09 REDD'S HEAD

*BONUS TRACKS

Same personnel except Sonny Redd(alto sax)

Hackensack, NJ, November 12, 1957