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Art Pepper
Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To - Art Pepper, Porter, Cole
2. Red Pepper Blues - Art Pepper, Garland, Red
3. Imagination - Art Pepper, Burke, Johnny [Lyri
4. Waltz Me Blues - Art Pepper, Chambers, Paul [1]
5. Straight Life - Art Pepper, Mandel, Johnny
6. Jazz Me Blues - Art Pepper, Delaney, Tom [1]
7. Tin Tin Deo - Art Pepper, Fuller, Gil
8. Star Eyes - Art Pepper, DePaul, Gene
9. Birk's Works - Art Pepper, Gillespie, Dizzy

CD Details

All Artists: Art Pepper
Title: Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Jvc / Xrcd
Release Date: 2/27/2001
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Cool Jazz, Modern Postbebop, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 693692608724

Synopsis

Amazon.com Music Reviews

The rhythm section in question here belonged to Miles Davis in Los Angeles, one fine day in January 1957. Pepper had made a name for himself in Stan Kenton's band, but this was really the first time he found himself in the studio with a rhythm section such as Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. In his fascinating biography, Straight Life, Pepper tells the story of the date when, after not playing for six months, he was told of the session that morning. He pieced together a broken horn, went in, and blew. Not completely remembering the first tune "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To," he voices a line that both invokes the melody and refashions it. The rest of the session shows just how high Pepper rose to the occasion. It's one of the most important recordings of his career. --Michael Monhart

CD Reviews

East Coast Meets West Coast

Steven J. Bissell | Denver, CO USA | 05/08/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Art Pepper was one of the so-called "West Coast" or "California" sax players; think Paul Desmond meets John Coltrane. In 1957 he was called by Lester Koenig and asked if he wanted to cut an album with Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. These guys, the greatest side-men from the "East Coast" school, had been playing, at that time, with Miles Davis. Pepper was, as always, in hock to feed his heroin habit and didn't have a complete sax in his apartment. He pieced together an alto from spare parts and made it over to the Los Angeles studio of Contemporary Records. What followed in the next five hours was magic. During the recording session two tunes, "Waltz Me Blues," and "Red Pepper Blues" were actually composed by Chambers and Pepper and Garland and Pepper respectedly. Art Pepper was the equal of the great alto players of that era. Like many Jazz musicans his addiction to heroin got in the way of his playing. One of the tunes on this disc, "Straight Life," composed by Pepper, is also the title of his highly depressing auto-biography. This disc is in all ways a wonderful musical occasion. If you are at all a fan of this type Jazz, you need to own this disc. The CD comes in two versions; one is a standard transfer of the LP, the other is coded in 20-bit analog and has a bonus track of "The Man I Love." Either one is well worth having."