Pepper Adams

Pepper Adams was an American baritone saxophonist born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, who began his professional career in the Detroit jazz scene in the early 1950s and worked primarily within hard bop and post-bop idioms. Noted for a robust, agile technique and harmonically dense improvisation, he helped raise the profile of the baritone saxophone in modern jazz and recorded extensively as both a leader and a sideman from the 1950s to the 1980s.