TRACK LISTING
1. Enchilada Baby (Vol. 4) Jeremy Kahn Quartet
2. Doctor Deep (Vol. 1) Jeremy Kahn Trio
3. Julian (Vol. 4) Jeremy Kahn Quartet
4. Binary (Vol. 3) Frank Basile Sextet
5. Claudette's Way (Vol. 2) Kevin Bales Quartet
6. Meuzzin' (Vol. 1) Jeremy Kahn Trio
7. In Love With Night (Vol. 3) Frank Basile Sextet
8. Ephemera (Vol. 1) Jeremy Kahn Trio
9. Bossallegro (Vol. 2) Kevin Bales Quartet
10. Joy Road (Vol. 3) Frank Basile Sextet
11. I Carry Your Heart (Vol. 5)
RELEASE INFORMATION
"It’s perhaps faint praise to call Pepper Adams one of the best of jazz music’s baritone saxophonists, so thinly populated is the confederacy of players on this most unwieldy of instruments.
Instead, as the sweeping new five-volume, 51-track anthology Joy Road: The Complete Works of Pepper Adams makes clear, Adams was one of the more underrated figures in the hot-house late-1950s hard bop scene — baritone or not. He played with a muscular, aggressive spirit that players like the far more famous Gerry Mulligan rarely approached, yet Adams could still perform on ballads with a well-conceived unsentimental acumen. In his moment, Adams almost single-handedly moved the baritone sax forward from the back sections of orchestras into the spotlight. The celebrated bassist Milt “The Judge” Hinton simply called Adams “the master.”NICK DERISO, somethingelsereviews