Mark Stryker: "Reflectory is a meticulously researched and insightful biography of one of the defining modern jazz musicians of his era and one of the key products of Detroit's postwar bebop explosion. We need more books like this in jazz historiography and more authors willing to dig this deeply." Ben Sidran: "Gary Carner's loving tribute . . . finally delivers some justice to the man and to the whole range and span of his too short and underappreciated but brilliant career." 550 PAGES. 450 MUSIC LINKS, HALF NEVER BEFORE AVAILABLE!

GARY CARNER, an independent jazz researcher, is the author of Jazz Performers, The Miles Davis Companion, and Pepper Adams' Joy Road. From 1984 until Adams's death in 1986, he collaborated with Adams on his memoirs. Carner's research, collected at pepperadams.com, spans five decades. The author has produced all 42 of Adams's compositions for Motema Music, including newly written lyrics to his seven ballads, plus commissioned tentet, big band, and octet (with string quartet) arrangements of Adams's work.

Foreword by Chick Corea and Jim Merod. Author's Note. Prologue. Ascent (1930-1955): Chapter 1: In Love with Night. Chapter 2: Now in Our Lives. Chapter 3: Inanout. Chapter 4: Twelfth and Pingree; Interlude: Detroit's Jazz Educational Ecosystem; Twelfth and Pingree (Part II). Dominion (1956-1986): Chapter 5: I Carry Your Heart. Chapter 6: Claudette's Way. Chapter 7: Joy Road. Chapter 8: Conjuration. Chapter 9: Civilization and Its Discontents; Interlude: New York's Turbulent Late-60's Jazz Scene; Civilization and Its Discontents (Part II). Chapter 10: Lovers of Their Time. Chapter 11: Urban Dreams; Interlude: Bohemian New York in the Fifties; Urban Dreams (Part II). Chapter 12: Ad Astra. Sources. Selected Bibliography. Recommended Sideman Recordings. Acknowledgements.