Unreleased Art: Volume 9: At Donte's, April 26, 1974

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Unreleased Art: Volume 9: At Donte's, April 26, 1974
Live album by Art Pepper & Warne Marsh

Publication
(s)

2016

Label (s) Widow's button

Format (s)

3 CD

Genre (s)

Modern jazz , postbop

Title (number)

15th

occupation

production

Laurie Pepper

Studio (s)

Donte's, North Hollywood

chronology
Unreleased Art Vol. VIII: Live at the Winery
(2013) 		Unreleased Art: Volume 9: At Donte's, April 26, 1974 Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10: Toronto
(2018)
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Unreleased Art: Volume 9: At Donte's, April 26, 1974 is a posthumous album by alto saxophonist Art Pepper with Warne Marsh . The recordings, made on April 26, 1974, were released in 2016 on Widow's Taste , the label of his widow Laurie Pepper. It was the ninth album in a series of releases from the estate entitled Unreleased Art .

background

The recordings were made at Carey Leverette 's Donte’s jazz club on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood. On April 26, 1974, Donte’s was the scene of a nightly jam session by saxophonists Art Pepper and Warne Marsh, which included almost three hours of music. Pepper and Marsh had worked together several times at the beginning of their careers, especially in two Hollywood sessions in the winter of 1956. Pepper joined Marsh's quintet as a guest, which fits into the Lennie Tristano- influenced framework of the bandleader without limiting its own cool sound . Almost two decades later, both men's musical styles had seen a number of changes, though Tristano's influence in Marsh's music was still a strong undercurrent. Pepper's life had drawn close to extended adversity with multiple incarcerations, heroin addiction, and a litany of burnt personal and professional existences, wrote Derek Taylor. Marsh and Pepper would meet again almost a year later at a different club in Los Angeles, with a different rhythm section .

Pepper came to the performance through his old friend Jack Sheldon , who was to share the front line with him on the trumpet, with a newly put together rhythm section with pianist Mark Levine, bassist John Heard and drummer Lew Malin. When Sheldon fell ill on the day in question, Pepper brought in saxophonist Warne Marsh as a suitable replacement. The set lists are provided with known standards due to the short-term replacement with Marsh.

Track list

  • Art Pepper & Warne Marsh - Unreleased Art: Volume 9 - At Donte's, April 26, 1974 (Widow's Taste - APMCD16001)
CD 1
  1. All the Things You Are 17:03
  2. What's new? 11:51
  3. Donna Lee 12:40
  4. Volume intros 1:37
  5. Walkin '3:25 pm
CD 2
  1. Over the Rainbow 9:19
  2. Lover Come Back to Me 12:21
  3. Good bait 17:43
  4. Here's That Rainy Day 8:34
  5. Rhythm-A-Ning 11:54
CD 3
  1. Broadway 2:27 pm
  2. Yardbird Suite 14:22
  3. 'Round Midnight 9:50
  4. Cherokee 18:03
  5. Good Night Comments 0:31

reception

According to C. Michael Bailey, who gave the album 4½ (out of five) stars in All About Jazz , the program for this set was largely that of Pepper. "What's New", "Here's That Rainy Day", "Lover Come Back to Me" and "Over the Rainbow" would have been basic components of Pepper's ballad performances, the author said, during "Donna Lee", "Walkin '", "Yardbird Suite "And" Cherokee "Pepper's way of cooking were The clash of approaches in the two musicians is best captured in the blues of" Walkin '"and the pastoral ballad"' Round Midnight ". Pepper's solos are “concentric like light emanating from a bright point in all directions. Marsh's solos have a vector quality that tends one way and then the other. Marsh's approach is almost scientifically defined, while Peppers is empirically experienced. "

Derek Taylor wrote in Dusted that the introductory foray into Jerome Kern's ballad " All the Things You Are " lays down the basic pattern that applies to most pieces in the session, with Pepper burning with cheerfulness and chorusing in double digits while Marsh then "with a more measured and well-rounded treatise on the subject". Heard and Malin carefully keep the time, while Levine competently competes against it. Each player patiently waits for their own solo seat. “The different traits between Marsh and Pepper in terms of temperament, life history, philosophy and beyond were innumerable and obvious, but the common jazz language was more than sufficient to serve as a stable and effective sealant for their success as a tandem . "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Derek Taylor: Art Pepper & Warne Marsh - Unreleased Art: Volume 9 - At Donte's, April 26, 1974. Duysted, November 23, 2016, accessed on March 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Art Pepper & Warne Marsh - Unreleased Art: Volume 9 - At Donte's, April 26, 1974 at Discogs
  3. ↑ C. Michael Bailey: Art Pepper & Warne Marsh - Unreleased Art: Volume 9 - At Donte's, April 26, 1974. All About Jazz, October 24, 2016, accessed March 7, 2020 .