Pepper Adams ranked among modern jazz's finest baritone saxophonists. His mastery of the middle and lower registers and technical acumen enabled him to play the cumbersome baritone with a speed, facility, and style usually restricted to smaller horns. This '57 quintet date featured him in a more relaxed context with West Coast jazz types like trumpeter
Stu Williamson and pianist
Carl Perkins. Bassist
Leroy Vinnegar added his famous "walking" lines and drummer
Mel Lewis provided a steady, smooth rhythmic pace, while
Adams contributed two originals and did three standards in his usual impeccable fashion.