When it comes to the trombone, Trenton, NJ native Clifford Adams is a national resource, having performed over the past 44 years with everyone from Patti LaBelle and Kool and the Gang to Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey. But Clifford Adams needs your help, and he needs it now. As a result of liver cancer, Clifford Adams needs a liver transplant and he needs it soon. Sadly, like too many jazz and blues musicians, he has no medical insurance. The bills are mounting daily and time is running very short. To be quite frank about it, if Clifford Adams does not get the liver transplant, he will die. Jazz Bridge, our region’s non-profit devoted to assisting jazz and blues musicians in need, is on the case in the quest for medical insurance, and has just set up a fund in order to help a great musician and a great gentleman in need. Donate online via http://www.jazzbridge.org/ways-to-help/donate/ or send a check to The Jazz Bridge Project, 3008 Limekiln Pike, Glenside, PA, 19008. Be sure to put Clifford Adams’ name on the memo line. Michael Ray is also putting together an all-star musical benefit to help raise funds.
This master musician and jazz educator first hit the road in 1970 with the legendary Patti LaBelle and The Bluebells. The following year, he made his recording debut with jazz organ giant Charles Earland. After a two-year stint with Earland, he toured with the Stylistics, and a number of the world’s greatest jazz musicians, including Lou Donaldson, Johnny Hammond Smith and Richard “Groove” Holmes, Rashied Ali, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Billy Taylor, Sonny Stitt, Jackie McLean, Clark Terry, Roy Haynes, Charlie Rouse, Woody Shaw, Max Roach, The Duke Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Mercer Ellington, a band that often backed vocalists Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams and Sarah Vaughn. In 1977, he became known a wider public via what became a long-standing association with Kool & the Gang. Resumes do not get better than that.
As an educator, he’s taught Master classes at, among many other places, Princeton University, Yale, Rutgers, Lawrenceville Prep School, Trenton State College, Duke University, Hartford University and Rowan State College.
Clifford Adams not only needs your help, he deserves it. Please donate and help out this great, great man.
Jazz Bridge, an award-winning nonprofit dedicated to assisting Greater Philadelphia Metro area jazz and blues musicians and vocalists in times of crisis, sponsors these neighborhood concerts throughout the region to keep the sound of Philadelphia alive.
This master musician and jazz educator first hit the road in 1970 with the legendary Patti LaBelle and The Bluebells. The following year, he made his recording debut with jazz organ giant Charles Earland. After a two-year stint with Earland, he toured with the Stylistics, and a number of the world’s greatest jazz musicians, including Lou Donaldson, Johnny Hammond Smith and Richard “Groove” Holmes, Rashied Ali, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Billy Taylor, Sonny Stitt, Jackie McLean, Clark Terry, Roy Haynes, Charlie Rouse, Woody Shaw, Max Roach, The Duke Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Mercer Ellington, a band that often backed vocalists Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams and Sarah Vaughn. In 1977, he became known a wider public via what became a long-standing association with Kool & the Gang. Resumes do not get better than that.
As an educator, he’s taught Master classes at, among many other places, Princeton University, Yale, Rutgers, Lawrenceville Prep School, Trenton State College, Duke University, Hartford University and Rowan State College.
Clifford Adams not only needs your help, he deserves it. Please donate and help out this great, great man.
Jazz Bridge, an award-winning nonprofit dedicated to assisting Greater Philadelphia Metro area jazz and blues musicians and vocalists in times of crisis, sponsors these neighborhood concerts throughout the region to keep the sound of Philadelphia alive.
