Pepper Adams' Joy Road: An Annotated Discography
By Gary Carner
sampling excerpts of the book online, reveals how hard things were even up to the 80s ,for greats like Pepper.
gigs, recordings not paid for, terrible recording conditions, some now considered masterpieces, like Pepper, Herbie H with Donald Byrd
.I assume the reason this is so expensive $75 is because it’s a scholarly text, but I doubt it will get many sales.