George Adams (musician)

George Rufus Adams ( born April 29, 1940 in Covington, Georgia, † November 14, 1992 in New York City ) was an American jazz musician (tenor saxophone, flute, vocals, composition) and representatives of the Modern Creative style.

Life and work

Adams began the age of eleven on the piano and soon accompanied the church choir. In school, the saxophone came to rest on which he appeared with high school bands and rhythm 'n' blues and funk played in a night club where also occurred bluesmen like Howlin 'Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins. He studied music as a fellow at Clark College. In 1961, he was with the blues singer Sam Cooke go. Two years later he moved to Ohio, where he worked with organ bands. In 1966, he was with the band of organist Hank Marr, which also includes James Blood Ulmer was on tour in Europe. From 1968 he worked in New York with Roy Haynes, Gil Evans ( There Comes a Time ), and Art Blakey. Between 1973 and 1976 he was one of a quintet of Charles Mingus, with whom he recorded the albums Changes One / Two and Cumbia & Jazz Fusion. He then worked again with the Gil Evans Orchestra, but also with McCoy Tyner. In 1978 he joined at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival together with Archie Shepp and Heinz Sauer. In 1979 he played with his former colleagues Mingus Don Pullen and Dannie Richmond and bassist Cameron Brown regularly in an extraordinary quartet, which recorded all the major festivals in Europe and the USA. Occasionally he also appeared with Blood Ulmer and the Free Radio Band phalanx and with the Mingus Dynasty. 1990, when the ( posthumous ) premiere of Mingus ' Epitaph großorchestralem plant Adams was one of the principal soloists. His health deteriorated rapidly in 1991 due to a cancerous condition; but despite being breathless until 1992, he joined up with his own band, but also with the Mingus Dynasty.

The game of Adams distinguished himself, in spite of the harmonic and linear freedom of a post- Coltrane tenor players through the vocal modulation and power of blues and gospel. As a singer, he focused on a Blue repertoire of a few, but excellently interpreted pieces with their own, ironic lyrics.

Discography

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