Unreleased Art Vol. VII: Sankei Hall Osaka, Japan, November 18, 1980

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Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. VII: Sankei Hall Osaka, Japan, November 18, 1980
Live album by Art Pepper

Publication
(s)

2012

Label (s) Widow's button

Format (s)

2 CD

Genre (s)

Modern jazz , postbop

Title (number)

19th

occupation

production

Laurie Pepper

chronology
Unreleased Art Vol. VI :: Blues for the Fisherman
(2011)
Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. VII: Sankei Hall Osaka, Japan, November 18, 1980 Unreleased Art Vol. VIII: Live at the Winery
(2013)

Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. VII: Sankei Hall Osaka, Japan, November 18, 1980 is a posthumous album by alto saxophonist Art Pepper . The recordings, made on November 18, 1980 at a concert in Osaka , were released in 2012 on Widow's Taste , the label of his widow Laurie Pepper. It was the seventh album in a series of releases from the estate entitled Unreleased Art .

background

Art Pepper was doing pretty well in November 1980, critic S. Victor Aaron said: his newly published autobiography Straight Life , co-authored with wife Laurie, received positive reviews, and the musician recently had a string album ( Winter Moon ), which received positive reviews. His favorite pianist George Cables returned to the band to tour Japan .

It was under these fortunate circumstances that Pepper's concert in Osaka happened, from which the recording on this double CD comes. Pepper was actually pretty happy with the whole band, not just cables. 22-year-old Tony Dumas had settled in well after a bumpy start in Pepper's band. Carl Burnett was the one Pepper specifically referred to as his favorite drummer. Pepper used a mixture of well-known standards and original bebop compositions for its set list, which overlap with the set lists of earlier unreleased Art Pepper albums from the estate.

Track list

  • Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. VII: Sankei Hall - Osaka, Japan, November 18, 1980 (Widow's Taste APMC12001)
CD 1
  1. Landscape 11:50
  2. Talk, band intros 2:11
  3. Ophelia 9:52
  4. Cherokee ( Ray Noble ) 12:40
  5. Talk, about Cherokee 0:17
  6. (Somewhere) Over the Rainbow ( Harold Arlen , EY Harburg ) 12:37
  7. Talk, presenting George Cables 0:11
  8. Quiet Fire (piano solo) 6:29
  9. Talk, introducing Straight Life 0:43
  10. Straight Life 7:00
CD 2
  1. YI Blues 9:30
  2. Talk, about YI Blues 0:55
  3. Avalon ( Al Jolson , Buddy DeSylva , Vincent Rose ) 7:26
  4. Talk, about Avalon 0:32
  5. Make a List 19:01,
  6. Talk, about Make a List 0:43
  7. Winter Moon 11:32
  8. Talk, about Winter Moon 0:25
  9. Donna Lee ( Charlie Parker ) 10:18

reception

S. Victor Aaron wrote in Something Else that considering the fact that the recording was selected from a cassette recording made by an unknown concert-goer, the sound quality was quite good. “Everyone in the band can be heard, although sometimes I would have liked to have heard Cables a little better.” The music that was performed on the night of November 18, 1980 in Osaka, Japan, shows Pepper's “happy state of mind”.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. VII: Sankei Hall Osaka, Japan, November 18, 1980. Something Else, August 27, 2012, accessed on March 27, 2020 .
  2. Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. VII: Sankei Hall - Osaka, Japan, November 18, 1980 at Discogs