Unreleased Art Vol. VIII: Live at the Winery
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| Live album by Art Pepper | ||||
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| Label (s) | Widow's button | |||
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CD |
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8th |
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50:59 |
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Laurie Pepper |
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Paul Masson Mountain Winery, Saratoga, California |
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Unreleased Art Vol. VIII: Live at the Winery is a posthumous album by alto saxophonist Art Pepper . The recordings, made on September 6, 1976 at a concert at the Paul Masson Mountain Winery in Saratoga, were released in 2013 on Widow's Taste , the label of his widow Laurie Pepper. It was the eighth album in a series of releases from the estate entitled Unreleased Art .
background
All but one of the first seven editions of the Unreleased Art series contain Art Pepper's recordings from 1980–82, the last three years of Pepper's turbulent life. They present him with his regular quartets. In contrast to this, Vol. VIII: Jazz at the Winery contains music that was recorded during a performance by the saxophonist at a jazz festival in Saratoga, California on September 6, 1976 with a rhythm section composed for the occasion (consisting of the pianist Smith Dobson , Jim Nichols on bass and drummer Brad Bilhorn ) was recorded. This picture was taken by a visitor to a jazz festival that was held on the afternoon of September 6, 1976 at Paul Masson's winery.
The concert took place shortly after the release of his "comeback" album Living Legend , which Pepper recorded on August 9, 1975 with Hampton Hawes , Charlie Haden and Shelly Manne , and the recorded set contains three of the six tracks on that album. The following week Art Pepper recorded the studio album The Trip with George Cables , David Williams and Elvin Jones for Contemporary Records .
Track list
- Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Vol. VIII: Live at the Winery (Widow's Taste APM 13001)
- Caravan ( Juan Tizol , Duke Ellington ) 10:55
- Talk: Volume Intros 1:46
- Ophelia 8:28
- Here's That Rainy Day ( Jimmy Van Heusen , Johnny Burke ) 10:41
- Talk About Smith Dobson; Intro to What Laurie Likes 0:39
- What Laurie Likes 13:12
- Straight Life 6:18
- Saratoga Blues 9:56
- All other compositions are from Art Pepper.
reception
Thomas Conrad wrote in JazzTimes that the sound quality in this episode of the Unreleased Art series was borderline; it sounds foggy. “Peppers Alt is so thin and rugged that it sometimes sounds like a toy saxophone. But the sound is enough to show how the Pepper of the mid-70s, which started its last comeback, was different from the Pepper of the 80s. "Pepper is playing a little less wildly," less on the verge of tearing Ecstasy and anger, that's what he played at the end of his life. ”Conrad also pays tribute to Smith Dobson's achievements; he is a fine pianist who has since been almost forgotten. Vol. VIII is a technically imperfect, but unfiltered, invaluable insight into the life and times of a great American artist, Conrad sums up.
Reviewing the album on Something Else, S. Victor Aaron said that perhaps the greatest virtue of Unreleased Art, Vol. VIII is simply that it is another opportunity to go back in time and listen to one of the greats of the old saxophonists. This is another reminder that even most of the class in the new school still has a lot of catching up to do.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Thomas Conrad: Art Pepper: Unreleased Art: Vol. VIII: Live at the Winery. JazzTimes, April 25, 2019, accessed March 27, 2020 .
- ^ A b S. Victor Aaron: Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol. VIII, Live At The Winery September 6, 1976 (2013). Something Else, October 31, 2013, accessed March 27, 2020 .
- ^ Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Vol. VIII: Live at the Winery at Discogs