Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol 4: The Art History Project '2009

Artist	Art Pepper Related artists
Album name	Unreleased Art, Vol 4: The Art History Project
Country
Date	2009
Genre	Jazz
Play time	03:00:45
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	1,1 GB (+3\%rec.)
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There are several Art Pepper boxed sets on the market but none that tried to
cover the entire sweep of his checkered career until this one, the fourth in his
widow Laurie Peppers series of Unreleased Art projects for her own label. The
three-CD set is thoughtfully divided by disc into three periods -- early Pepper
from the cool 1950s, his lost years in the 60s when he spent most of the decade
in jail on dope charges, and the final comeback from the mid-70s until his death
in 1982.
Disc One begins with an anomaly, the startling Art Pepper from the Stan Kenton
Innovations in Modern Music orchestra, with its spooky, swirling dissonant
strings and fast-paced brass. This was written and arranged by Peppers then-best
friend, the late Shorty Rogers, whom Laurie Pepper accuses in her liner notes of
turning stool pigeon on Pepper, setting up his first drug bust. The rest of the
disc is devoted to bop and cool chamber jazz sessions up to 1957, all but the
Latinized Begin the Beguine of brief length. The selection is not completely
representative of the period, for Laurie sidesteps Peppers most noted albums
like Art Pepper + Eleven and Meets the Rhythm Section in favor of lesser-known
material from tiny labels like Jazz West, Omegatape, and Tampa, as well as some
Savoy and Contemporary sides -- among them his signature supersonic bop workout
Straight Life. No new material here, and these tracks have been already reissued
by the big labels, but they do display Peppers alto in early, prime, relatively
domesticated form.
It is in Disc Two that we finally begin to get at the heart of Laurie Peppers
mission -- to put genuine unreleased Art before the public. The first six
rehearsal tracks , all previously unissued, with a newly-formed quartet are
apparently all that has been uncovered from the studio to date from a brief gap
in between incarcerations in 1964. Now this is vital transitional stuff, well
recorded and well-worth hearing, for the influence of John Coltrane has left its
deep mark, and Peppers flights veer out beyond the constraints of bop changes
and structures, willing to sacrifice some of that golden tone to explore the
outside. The disc concludes by jumping ahead to 1968 for a bluesy Chelsea Bridge
from Peppers brief engagement with the rockish Buddy Rich Big Band (a bonus
track from the Mercy, Mercy CD).
In its survey of Peppers exhaustively documented final period, Disc Three
contributes four more unreleased tracks, along with three that were originally
released only in Japan where Pepper had become an alto sax icon in absentia
during the prison years. Now the fire lit by Coltrane and the prison system has
become a magnificent raging blaze, the ballad (Lost Life) is deeply felt, a
throwback to the `50s (Angel Wings) swings just as effervescently, and there is
a long funky number, Mambo Koyama (complete with manuscript score in the
booklet) that testifies to Peppers ability to rock out with the best of the
funksters of that time.
Although Disc Two offers very short weight at 42 minutes in order to stick to
its time frame, this is the most absorbing Unreleased Art project to date, for
it illustrates where Pepper was coming from before his last triumphs and
attempts to fill the messy gaps between.


Tracks:

CD1: Pure Art (1951-1960)

01. Art Pepper (Rogers)
02. Fascinatin Rhythm (Gershwin-Gershwin)
03. Patricia (Pepper)
04. Tickle Toe (Young)
05. Pepper Returns (Pepper)
06. Mambo de la Pinta (Pepper)
07. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) (Strachey)
08. Cool Bunny (Pepper)
09. Besame Mucho (Skylar-Velasquez)
10. Arts Oregano (Pepper)
11. Diane (Pepper)
12. I Cant Believe That Youre in Love with Me (Gaskill-McHugh)
13. Straight Life (Pepper)
14. Everything Happens to Me (Dennis-Adair)
15. Nutmeg (Pepper)
16. Whats New? (Haggart-Burke)
17. Begin the Beguine (Porter)


CD2: Hard Art (1960-1968)

01. Rehearsal
02. Track 2 (Pepper)
03. So in Love (Potter)
04. Talk
05. That Crazy Blues (Pepper)
06. D Section (Pepper)
07. Chelsea Bridge (Strayhorn)


CD3: Consummate Art (1972-1982)

01. Caravan (Ellington-Mills-Tizol)
02. Lost Life (Pepper)
03. Landscape (Pepper)
04. Angel Wings (Pepper)
05. Historia de un Amor (Almaron)
06. Mambo Koyama (Pepper)
07. Thats Love (Pepper) 

Personnel:

Art Pepper: alto saxophone; Carl Perkins: piano (CD1); Ben Tucker: bass (CD1);
Chuck Flores: drums (CD1); Jack Sheldon: trumpet (CD1); Russ Freeman: piano
(CD1); Leory Vinegar: bass (CD1); Shelly Mann: drums (CD1); Bob Whitlock: bass
(CD1); Bobby White: drums (CD1); Hampton Hawes: piano (CD1); Joe Mondragon: bass
(CD1); Larry Bunker: drums (CD1); Gary Frommer: drums (CD1); Warne Marsh: tenor
saxophone (CD1); Ronnie Bell: piano (CD1); Jack Montrose: tenor saxophone (CD1);
Claude Williamson: piano (CD1); Monty Budwig: bass (CD1); Stan Kenton Innovative
Orchestra (CD1);

Frank Strazzeri: piano (CD2); Hersh Hammel: bass (CD2); Bill Goodwin: drums
(CD2); Charles Owens: alto saxophone (CD2), flute (CD2), clarinet (CD2); Don
Menza: tenor saxophone (CD2), flute (CD2); Pat LaBarbera: tenor saxophone (CD2),
flute (CD2); John Laws: baritone saxophone (CD2), bass clarinet (CD2); Al
Porcino: trumpet (CD2); Bill Prince: trumpet (CD2); Ken Faulk: trumpet (CD2);
Dave Culp: trumpet (CD2); Jim Trimble: trombone (CD2); Rick Stepton: trombone
(CD2); Peter Graves: trombone (CD2); Walt Namuth: guitar (CD2); Joe Azarello:
piano (CD2); Gary Walters: bass (CD2); Buddy Rich: drums (CD2);

Milcho Leviev: piano (CD3); Bob Magnuson: bass (CD3); Carl Burnett: drums (CD3);
Smith Dobson: piano (CD3); Jim Nichols: bass (CD3); Brad Bihorn: drums (CD3);
Stanley Cowell: piano (CD3); George Mraz: bass (CD3); Ben Riley: drums (CD3);
Jack Sheldon: trumpet (CD3); Russ Freeman: piano (CD3); Bob Magnusson: bass
(CD3); Carl Burnett: drums (CD3).