Reflectory
The Life and Music of Pepper Adams
Published on 4. October 2021
978-1-329-49156-4 (ISBN)
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GARY CARNER is the author of Jazz Performers, The Miles Davis Companion, and Pepper Adams' Joy Road. From 1984 until Adams's death in 1986, he collaborated with Adams on his memoirs. Carner's research, collected at pepperadams.com, spans five decades. The author has produced all 42 of Adams's compositions for Motema Music, including newly written lyrics to his seven ballads, plus commissioned tentet, big band, and octet (with string quartet) arrangements of Adams's work.
Content
Foreword by Chick Corea and Jim Merod.
Author's Note.
Prologue.
Ascent (1930-1955):
Chapter 1: In Love with Night.
Chapter 2: Now in Our Lives.
Chapter 3: Inanout.
Chapter 4: Twelfth and Pingree;
Interlude: Detroit's Jazz Educational Ecosystem;
Twelfth and Pingree (Part II).
Dominion (1956-1986):
Chapter 5: I Carry Your Heart.
Chapter 6: Claudette's Way.
Chapter 7: Joy Road.
Chapter 8: Conjuration.
Chapter 9: Civilization and Its Discontents;
Interlude: New York's Turbulent Late-60's Jazz Scene;
Civilization and Its Discontents (Part II).
Chapter 10: Lovers of Their Time.
Chapter 11: Urban Dreams;
Interlude: Bohemian New York in the Fifties;
Urban Dreams (Part II).
Chapter 12: Ad Astra.
Sources.
Selected Bibliography.
Recommended Sideman Recordings.
Acknowledgements.
