The Art History Project: Unreleased Art Vol. IV
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31 |
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Laurie Pepper |
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The Art History Project: Unreleased Art Vol. IV is a posthumous album by alto saxophonist Art Pepper . The recordings, made between 1951 and 1982, were released in 2009 on Widow's Taste, the label of his widow Laurie Pepper. It was the fourth album in a series of releases from the estate entitled Unreleased Art .
background
According to Richard S. Ginell, this Art Pepper Edition tries to cover the entire course of his eventful career. The three-CD set is divided into three periods - the early Art Pepper from the 1950s cool jazz era, "his lost years" in the 1960s, when he spent most of the decade on drug possession charges Served in prison, and made a definitive comeback from the mid-1960s and 70s until his death in 1982.
The first CD begins with a track on which you can experience Art Pepper as a member of the Stan Kenton Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra, "with its creepy, swirling dissonant strings and the fast-paced brass". This track, called "Art Pepper", was written and arranged by Pepper's best friend at the time, the trumpeter Shorty Rogers . The rest of the CD consists of bop and cool jazz sessions that were created up to 1957. The tracks were selected in favor of less well-known material from small labels such as Jazz West, Omegatape and Tampa. It is therefore not entirely representative of this period, wrote Ginell, as Art Pepper's most famous albums of this phase such as Art Pepper + Eleven , Straight Life and Meets the Rhythm Section, as well as a few others.
On Disc 2 Laurie Pepper released six previously unreleased samples with a newly formed quartet. These are recordings that were made in the studio due to a brief gap between the incarcerations in 1964. The CD ends with a jump to 1968; it contains the bluesy track "Chelsea Bridge", which was created during Pepper's short membership with the (rocking) Buddy Rich Big Band , and it is also included as a bonus track on the CD Mercy, Mercy .
The third CD is dedicated to Peppers in the subsequent editions of Unheard Art, the richly documented last phase of life; it includes four other unreleased tracks, along with three originally released only in Japan, where Pepper had become an absent alto saxophone icon during his prison years.
Track list
- Art Pepper: The Art History Project: Unreleased Art Vol. IV (Widow's Taste - APM 09001)
Disc 1: Pure Art (1951-1960)
- Art Pepper (Shorty (Milton) Rogers) 5:17
- Fascinatin 'Rhythm (George & Ira Gershwin) 4:23
- Patricia (Art Pepper) 3:36
- Tickle Toe ( Lester Young ) 2:51
- Pepper Returns (Art Pepper) 4:24
- Mambo de la Pinta (Art Pepper) 4:14
- These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) (Jack Strachey) 2:38
- Cool Bunny (Art Pepper) 4:13
- Besame Mucho (Velasquez, Skylar) 3:58
- Art's oregano (Art Pepper) 3:08
- Diane (Art Pepper) 3:32
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me (Gaskill, Jimmy McHugh ) 5:22
- Straight Life (Art Pepper) 2:49
- Everything Happens to Me ( Matt Dennis , Tom Adair ) 3:10
- Nutmeg (Art Pepper) 3:11
- What's New ( Bob Haggart , Johnny Burke ) 4:04
- Begin the Beguine ( Cole Porter ) 7:21
Disc 2: Hard Art (1960–1968)
- Rehearshal 1:07
- Track 2 (Art Pepper) 7:51
- So in Love (Cole Porter) 10:54
- Talk 0:15
- That Crazy Blues (Cole Porter) 6:24
- D Section (Art Pepper) 10:44
- Chelsea Bridge ( Billy Strayhorn ) 5:11
Disc 3: Consummate Art (1975-1982)
- Caravan (Ellington, Mills, Tizol) 12:55
- Lost Life (Art Pepper) 8:37
- Landscape (Art Pepper) 12:46
- Angle Wings (Art Pepper) 5:16
- Historia de un Amor ( Carlos Almaran ) 7:43
- Mambo Koyama (Art Pepper) 14:11
- That's Love (Art Pepper) 7:30
- Track 1-1: May 18, 1950
- Tracks 1-2, 1-17: April 1, 1957
- Tracks 1-3, 1-5, 1-6: August 6, 1956
- Tracks 1-4 & 1-14: March 29, 1953
- Track 1-8: January 14, 1957
- Track 1-9 & 1-11: January 23, 1956
- Tracks 1-12 & 1-16: November 26, 1956
- Tracks 1-10, 1-13 & 1-15: August 25, 1954
- Tracks 2-1 through 2-6: May 1964
- Tracks 3-1 and 3-7: Yamagata March 14, 1978
- Track 3-3 and 3-6: Fat Tuesdays NYC April 1982
- Track 3-4 and 3-5: Hollywood 1980
reception
Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4½ (out of five) stars in Allmusic and wrote about the second CD: “Now this is an important transition material, well received and good. Well worth listening to because the John Coltrane influence has left its deep mark on it, and Pepper's excursions go beyond the confines of bop changes and structures and are ready to sacrifice some of that golden hue to explore the outside . "Regarding the last CD, the author commented:" Now the fire kindled by Coltrane and the prison system has turned into a great blazing fire, the ballad ('Lost Life') is deeply felt, a throwback to the 1950s ('Angel Wings ') swings just as bubbly, and there is a long funky number,' Mambo Koyama '(complete with manuscript score in the brochure), which testifies to Pepper's ability to rock with the best funk musicians of the time. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved March 27, 2020.
- ^ Art Pepper: The Art History Project: Unreleased Art Vol. IV at Discogs