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"Urban Dreams" A Tribute to Pepper Adams
Sun, September 30, 2012
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Birdland NYC
New York, NY
$30.00
Off Sale
There is a $10.00 food or beverage minimum per person, per show. Dinner is served between 5:00pm-1:00am.
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"Urban Dreams" A Tribute to Pepper Adams
A Double Bill featuring:
Lew Tabackin & Arturo O'Farrill Quartet + Gary Smulyan & George Mraz with a String Quartet arranged by Bevan Manson
Jazz Historian, Music Producer & Wine Consultant Gary Carner Journeys Forth with PEPPER ADAMS' JOY ROAD 2 CDs, Complete Works Digital Box Set and a New Book Honoring The Compositional Genius of Baritone Sax Legend Pepper Adams
How do you bring attention to the compositional genius of a jazz artist, who, though internationally beloved by colleagues as one of the greatest baritone saxophonists to ever live, has been marginalized by history books and ignored as a composer? That, in sum, presents the quixotic challenge taken on by Gary Carner with his digital boxed set, JOY ROAD: The Complete Works of Pepper Adams (Volumes 1-5), coming September 11 from Motéma Music, and his exhaustively researched book, Pepper Adams' Joy Road: An Annotated Discography, out simultaneously from Scarecrow Press.
In connection with these two grand undertakings, Motéma will also release two physical CDs: a stand-alone version of Volume 5 (I Carry Your Heart: Alexis Cole Sings Pepper Adams), singled out because it documents the first-ever versions of Adams' music to be paired with lyrics; and the JOY ROAD SAMPLER, a CD of highlights from the digital boxed set that shall be made available for sale in stores and online.
To launch his new book and music offerings, Carner has collaborated with Motéma to co-opt his regularly scheduled Sommelier Direct fall wine sales route, and turn it into a 30-cityJOY ROAD release tour, in which he will preside over book and CD signings; emcee live music performances of Pepper's music; do radio publicity stops; and give college lectures... with wine tastings all along the way. It kicks off with premiere performances of new Adams big-band charts at the Village Vanguard by the Grammy® winning Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (in which Adams once held the baritone chair); there is an Alexis Cole CD release at Smoke (9/29); a spectacular performance dubbed "The Three Baris" at Marcus Samuelson's Red Rooster/ Ginny's Supper Club in Harlem (Sept 30) - The Three Baris are: Gary Smulyan, Frank Basile, and Joe Temperley. They will be backed by famed Pepper Adams' collaborators, George Mraz (bass), Don Friedman (piano) and Kenny Washington (drums). And, to top off the Pepper feast, Birdland Jazz Club will present new Bevan Manson string quartet arrangements of Adams' ballads; a tribute to Pepper by world renowned composer David Amram; and on that double-billed evening, a special feature with Arturo O'Farrill and Lew Tabackin.
As for the jazz musicians participating around the country, Carner is thrilled at their enthusiasm: "They have all been flipping out for the chance to participate; there's so much love for Adams. That's really what it's about; it all gets back to the heart. People are coming out of the woodwork."
Lew Tabackin & Arturo O'Farrill Quartet + Gary Smulyan & George Mraz with a String Quartet arranged by Bevan Manson
Jazz Historian, Music Producer & Wine Consultant Gary Carner Journeys Forth with PEPPER ADAMS' JOY ROAD 2 CDs, Complete Works Digital Box Set and a New Book Honoring The Compositional Genius of Baritone Sax Legend Pepper Adams
How do you bring attention to the compositional genius of a jazz artist, who, though internationally beloved by colleagues as one of the greatest baritone saxophonists to ever live, has been marginalized by history books and ignored as a composer? That, in sum, presents the quixotic challenge taken on by Gary Carner with his digital boxed set, JOY ROAD: The Complete Works of Pepper Adams (Volumes 1-5), coming September 11 from Motéma Music, and his exhaustively researched book, Pepper Adams' Joy Road: An Annotated Discography, out simultaneously from Scarecrow Press.
In connection with these two grand undertakings, Motéma will also release two physical CDs: a stand-alone version of Volume 5 (I Carry Your Heart: Alexis Cole Sings Pepper Adams), singled out because it documents the first-ever versions of Adams' music to be paired with lyrics; and the JOY ROAD SAMPLER, a CD of highlights from the digital boxed set that shall be made available for sale in stores and online.
To launch his new book and music offerings, Carner has collaborated with Motéma to co-opt his regularly scheduled Sommelier Direct fall wine sales route, and turn it into a 30-cityJOY ROAD release tour, in which he will preside over book and CD signings; emcee live music performances of Pepper's music; do radio publicity stops; and give college lectures... with wine tastings all along the way. It kicks off with premiere performances of new Adams big-band charts at the Village Vanguard by the Grammy® winning Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (in which Adams once held the baritone chair); there is an Alexis Cole CD release at Smoke (9/29); a spectacular performance dubbed "The Three Baris" at Marcus Samuelson's Red Rooster/ Ginny's Supper Club in Harlem (Sept 30) - The Three Baris are: Gary Smulyan, Frank Basile, and Joe Temperley. They will be backed by famed Pepper Adams' collaborators, George Mraz (bass), Don Friedman (piano) and Kenny Washington (drums). And, to top off the Pepper feast, Birdland Jazz Club will present new Bevan Manson string quartet arrangements of Adams' ballads; a tribute to Pepper by world renowned composer David Amram; and on that double-billed evening, a special feature with Arturo O'Farrill and Lew Tabackin.
As for the jazz musicians participating around the country, Carner is thrilled at their enthusiasm: "They have all been flipping out for the chance to participate; there's so much love for Adams. That's really what it's about; it all gets back to the heart. People are coming out of the woodwork."