Search - Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams :: Out of This World

Good tunes, bad sound quality

03/28/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Variable quality of the recording as its all in mono. The tune Out of this world sounds like they have only
included either left or right channel as the beginning of the tune is a bit off mike when Pepper and Donald plays.
Tune Curro's marred by some bad editing.
This recording is available in a few different releases, however none of them in a stereo version that apparently would
be existing somewhere if its not destroyed or lost.Recommended to anyone who like Donald, Pepper and Herbie."

The essence of late 50s jazz captured......

Michael S. Adachi | Point Richmond, CA USA | 12/28/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This recording captures some quintessential small combo interplay that only musicians of that caliber and that period could produce. I bought the vinyl 30 years ago because I'm a piano player and it was billed as a Herbie LP called "Jammin with Herbie Hancock" on TCB records. And even though I was blown away by young pre-Miles Herbie, I was even more blown away by Pepper Adams' playing and have listened to the recording many, many times to copy Adams' lines.

But mostly, I dig the way the group sounds. Authentic. The real deal."