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Pepper Adams: Pepper Adams Quintet

Read "Pepper Adams Quintet" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
November 16, 2025

Formed in 2025, the Gammaut label has upped the ante on deluxe audiophile reissues of classic jazz with their debut release, Pepper Adams Quintet (Mode Records, 1957). Original master tapes used? Check. Careful lacquer cutting at 45 RPM by Bernie Grundman? Check. Top-notch heavy vinyl pressing by Gotta Groove Records housed in a sturdy Stoughton gatefold? Check. To all these specs that routinely make audiophiles whip out their credit cards, Gammaut adds a gorgeous 40-page booklet with photos, newly-commissioned drawings, ...

Album Review

Curtis Counce: You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce!

Read "You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce!" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
November 18, 2023

When bassist Curtis Counce died of a heart attack at the age of 37 in 1963, the jazz world was deprived of a major talent. Not that one would have known much, for his death, while noted, was not extensively covered. Counce, a Midwesterner, had come to California and to Los Angeles to learn his craft, where he played with such incubator orchestras at the Club Alabam as Johnny Otis (trumpeter Art Farmer started there too). He gigged in the ...

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Leroy Vinnegar: Leroy Vinnegar Walks

Read "Leroy Vinnegar Walks" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
July 6, 2023

Chances are good that the name of bassist Leroy Vinnegar does not ring much of a bell among contemporary audiences. He does not have the cachet of a Ray Brown or an Oscar Pettiford, two names that a lot of professional bassists will instantly recognize, along with Scott LaFaro, with whom Vinnegar all too briefly overlapped. It is a bit surprising, although no one ever claimed that Vinnegar was a revolutionary. He was clearly in the ...