Unreleased Art, Vol. 3: The Croydon Concert
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| Live album by Art Pepper | ||||
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| Label (s) | Widow's button | |||
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2 CD |
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10 |
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running time |
1:58:03 |
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Laurie Pepper |
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Fairfield Hall, Croydon |
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Unreleased Art, Vol. 3: The Croydon Concert is a posthumous album by the alto saxophonist Art Pepper . The recordings, made in May 1981 in Croydon, south of London, were released in 2008 on Widow's Taste, the label of his widow Laurie Pepper. It was the third album in a series of unreleased Art Pepper recordings from the estate entitled Unreleased Art .
background
In the three years before his death in 1982, alto saxophonist Art Pepper toured and performed tirelessly. His marathon plan was an attempt, according to Marc Myers, to make up for lost years fighting drug addiction, coping with health problems and serving prison sentences. "The tours were also a heroic effort by his wife, Laurie Pepper, to keep her husband active and creative."
In 1981 Art Pepper's touring group consisted of Milcho Leviev on piano, Bob Magnusson on bass and Carl Burnett on drums. As Laurie Pepper reports in her Liner Notes , Pepper and Leviev's relationship was close but strained. At the center of their arguments was Leviev's need to play more notes than Pepper wanted behind his solos. Despite Pepper's requests to hold back more, Leviev could not and did not want to. The Croydon Concert is an (almost) complete recording of a concert that took place in Croydon, England, at Fairfield Hall.
Track list
- Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol. 3: The Croydon Concert (Widow's Taste APM08001)
- CD 1
- Blues for Blanche 12:41
- Talk, volume intro 4:34
- Ophelia 11:36
- Mambo de la Pinta 14:48
- Patricia 19:43
- CD 2
- Cherokee (Ray Noble) 12:55
- Goodbye ( Gordon Jenkins ) 11:58
- Yours is My Heart Alone ( Franz Lehár , Fritz Löhner-Beda , Ludwig Herzer ) 9:38
- Dedicated 9:43
- Make a List (Make a Wish) 20:05
- All other compositions are from Art Pepper.
reception
C. Michael Bailey wrote in All About Jazz , “Its tone is harder and drier and it still shows the remains of John Coltrane, who caught his imagination in the 1960s. But Pepper wasn't an unfinished developing artist in the mid-1970s; It was fully realized and in a nuclear transition. He is the musical sum of everything he has done and seen. "
John S. Wilson praised this quartet in The New York Times , saying that they had made Art Pepper's "innate rhythmic drive" even livelier. In The Village Voice , critic Gary Giddins said that Bob Magnusson's sure sense of time and rich tone in the lower register often complemented Peppers' ethereal moves and praised Carl Burnett's dialogical responsiveness.
According to Marc Myers, the album has enormous depth, pathos and tension. For an amateur recording, the sound fidelity is certainly remarkable. The album vividly shows Pepper's seemingly limitless stream of ideas. And like many of Pepper's recordings in his final years, this CD reflects the agony of his personal and artistic struggle. The sound of the recording was so clear and clear that the mysterious source of the recording must have been someone who must have been very familiar with the perfect recording of live music, says Myers.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Marc Myers: Art Pepper: The Croydon Concert. Jazzwax, June 12, 2008, accessed March 27, 2020 .
- ^ Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol. 3: The Croydon Concert at Discogs
- ↑ a b Unreleased Art, Vol. 3: The Croydon Concert. May 6, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .