Reverend Scott "Junior" Adams started playing the saxophone over 20 years ago, although he will never admit that he’s old enough to have done anything for 20 years. He has studied with local Seattle legends like Clarence Acox (Garfield High School), Johnnie Jessen (Kenny G’s teacher), Jabo Ward and Don Lanphere (Seattle jazz legends), and Roy Cummings (University of Washington).

He began playing clubs too young, and often had to sneak in the back door when the bouncer wasn’t looking, leap on stage right before the band started, and run out the door as soon as they were done. After 6 months, he was finally tired of the lying and sneaking around, and went to Seoul, South Korea, where they don’t care how old you are, as long as you can afford the drinks. Scott alleges that his 9 months in Korea helped bring his style of playing into focus. Something about playing in front of an audience 6 nights a week, blah, blah, blah. When he gets going on Korea, you tend to tune him out after a while.

When he returned to Seattle, he looked around for jazz gigs, and realized that since he wasn’t 60 years old (and never would be), there weren’t any available. He started playing with the following bands and musicians (not necessarily in this order): Seattle Blues Revue, Apollo Creed, The Roger Rogers Band, Nicole Fournier, Everyday People, Souler Energy, Full Circle, Molasses, Hip City, the Little Kings, and Doctor Funk. He also is known in some circles as “the village whore” and will gladly play for anyone who dangles a couple of bucks in front of his face.