Artist:  PEPPER ADAMS

Title:   “Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus”

Label:   WORKSHOP  (Division of Motown, Detroit MI).  Catalog number is W-219. 

Year:  1964

Personnel: 

On 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-1, and 2-4:

Pepper Adams – baritone sax

Thad Jones – trumpet

Hank Jones – piano

Paul Chambers – bass

Danny Richmond - drums

 

On 1-5, 2-2, and 2-3:

Pepper Adams – baritone sax

Thad Jones – trumpet

Bob Cranshaw – bass

Hank Jones – piano

Charles McPherson – alto sax

Zoot Sims – tenor

Bennie Powell – trombone

Danny Richmond - drums

Condition: 

NOTE:  This album came to us STILL SEALED in original factory shrink wrap as part of the estate of a shop owner who maintained a personal collection of jazz LPs, many of them sealed. 

This album is STILL SEALED in original factory shrink wrap.  Shrink wrap is clean and intact, except for a small separation (less than 2 inches) at the top of the opening edge where there is also a small cutout “notch” beneath the shrink wrap. 

Bottom seam and spine are flawless.  Two corners are very slightly crimped due to the tight shrink wrap, nothing serious.  Original discount price sticker is affixed to the front in the upper right corner.  Stored in a moisture-free, smokeless environment.

This scarce gem hardly ever shows up in any condition.  Here is a rare opportunity to be the first to put a stylus on it, or add it to your collection in its original sealed state!

Track Listing: 

Side One:

Fables of Faubus Black Light Song with Orange Carolyn Better Git It In Your Soul

Side Two:

Incarnation Portrait Haitian Fight Song Strollin’ Honies

Review:

Pepper Adams Plays Charlie Mingus is a watershed album in Adams' long career.  For starters, Mingus himself had a hand in the selection of material for the dates, along with Adams and vibist Teddy Charles.  Next, the two dates here, September 9 and 12, 1963, were recorded with two different bands.  Most of the material was taped on the earlier date with an octet comprised of Adams, Mingus' own drummer, Danny Richmond, bassist Paul Chambers, and Thad Jones on trumpet and his brother Hank on piano.  The latter date added Charles McPherson on alto, Zoot Sims on tenor, Bennie Powell on trombone, and had Bob Cranshaw replacing Chambers on bass.   Adams' read of "Fables of Faubus," by the quintet with its loping, rather than careening, pace, was arranged by Thad Jones approved by the composer.   Historically, it is also the first recording of the work without vocals.   "Incarnation," also by the quintet, was arranged by Adams.  Hank Jones leads the band in the piece's difficult rhythmic and harmonic structures, and he edges Adams and Thad Jones on in the front line; Pepper's solo and fills are among the most moving and knotty of his career.  Of the octet session, "Haitian Fight Song" is as furious as the composer's, as Cranshaw's bass drives the band inexhaustibly into the spirit of righteous indignation and rage at its heart.  On "Better Git It in Your Soul," Sims and Powell's solos are full of gut-bucket funk and stride the R&B line with aplomb and plenty of grease.   This is one of those must-own recordings for fans of Adams; but it is also for those who revere Mingus' work, because, as radical as some of these interpretations are, they were not only sanctioned by, but delighted in by the composer.”

(courtesy Thom Jurek, allmusic.com.)

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