Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10: Toronto

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Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10: Toronto
Live album by Art Pepper

Publication
(s)

2018

Label (s) Widow's button

Format (s)

3 CD

Genre (s)

Modern jazz , postbop

Title (number)

12

occupation

production

Laurie Pepper

chronology
Unreleased Art: Volume 9: At Donte's, April 26, 1974
(2016) 		Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10: Toronto -

Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10: Toronto is a posthumous album by the alto saxophonist Art Pepper . The recordings, made in June 1977 at a concert in Toronto, were released on November 2, 2018 on Widow's Taste , the label of his widow Laurie Pepper. It was the tenth album in a series of releases from the estate entitled Unreleased Art .

background

Toronto was Pepper's first stop on his first extended tour after his comeback, where he led his own band. This tour would culminate a few weeks later with his triumphant appearances in New York's Village Vanguard , wrote C. Michael Bailey. At the performance in Toronto, Canada, the band consisted of pianist Bernie Senensky , bassist Gene Perla and alternating Dave Piltch and drummer Terry Clarke .

Track list

  • Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10: Toronto (Widow's Taste - APM18001)
CD 1
  1. A Song for Richard ( Joe Gordon ) 16:52
  2. Long Ago and Far Away ( Ira Gershwin , Jerome David Kern ) 13:22
  3. Here's That Rainy Day ( Johnny Burke , Jimmy Van Heusen ) 10:17
  4. Blues for Heard (Art Pepper) 4:16
  5. What Is This Thing Called Love? ( Cole Porter ) 15:37
CD 2
  1. All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II ) 16:59
  2. Band intros (Art Pepper) 2:20
  3. The Summer Knows (lan & Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand ) 16:50
  4. I'll Remember April ( Don Raye , Gene DePaul , Plas Johnston ) 2:30 p.m.
CD 3
  1. Samba Mom Mom (Art Pepper) 17:40
  2. Star Eyes (Don Raye, Gene DePaul) 12:26
  3. Interview (interviewer Hal Hill) 30:16

reception

In his JazzTimes review , Jeff Tamarkin commented on the backing band: "They are good musicians, each providing more than capable accompaniment and solid solos for the admittedly unpredictable saxophonist, but they are not the cables , mraz and jones " that Pepper one with A month later at Village Vanguard . The Toronto show doesn't match everyone's idea of ​​the final Art Pepper take, notes Tamarkin, "but it's not the wreck either that it could have been given its ever-volatile state." Regardless of what that night in June Was or wasn't going on with Pepper in 1977 regarding his drug use, and what he was to succeed shortly afterwards at the Village Vanguard appearance, he still often hit the bull's eye in Toronto.

C. Michael Bailey wrote in All About Jazz that in the foreground of the 3-CD set were the ballads, "Here's That Rainy Day", "What is This Thing Called Love", "The Summer Knows", "I'll Remember April." ". But it is a Pepper original “that exists as the heartbeat of the recording; For this recording in Toronto, 'Samba Mom Mom', a composition for Laurie Pepper, is what 'Make a Wish (Make as List)' of Pepper's previously unreleased Croydon concert on May 14, 1981 ( Unreleased Art, Vol. 3 : The Croydon Concert ) was. Both songs also illustrate the close, swinging relationship between Pepper and his bassists (here Gene Perla and Bob Magnusson performing at Croydon). George Mraz would do the same two weeks later at the Village Vanguard performances. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b C. Michael Bailey: Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10: Toronto. All About Jazz, November 9, 2018, accessed March 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10: Toronto at Discogs
  3. ↑ Jeff Tamarkin: Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Pepper, Vol. 10: Toronto (Widow's Taste). JazzTimes, April 25, 2019, accessed March 27, 2020 .