Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol 1: The Complete Abashiri Concert '1981 [2006]

Artist	Art Pepper Related artists
Album name	Unreleased Art, Vol 1: The Complete Abashiri Concert
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Date	1981 [2006]
Genre	Jazz
Play time	01:48:57
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	711 mb (+3\%rec.)
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Despite his precarious health, wrecked by decades of doping, Art Pepper was
performing and recording at a furious pace during his last seven years, trying
to make up for lost time. There is a tremendous amount of material already
issued from those years -- and since this initial release from Laurie Peppers
label Widows Taste is designated Vol. 1, there must be much more on the shelf.
Hopefully the rest of the booty is as good as this one, a souvenir of Peppers
last tour of Japan, where he had become the countrys number one jazz alto sax
star even before he returned to performing. If there is any trace of Peppers
health problems, it can only be heard in his mumbling introductions, for his
alto sax playing is completely unimpaired seven months before his death. Backed
by one of his favorite quartets -- with George Cables on piano, David Williams
on bass, and Carl Burnett on drums -- Pepper is extraordinary throughout,
whether sending up rockets into the outside, running the bop line, playing
lyrically, or getting down to basic soul-jazz. According to the discography in
Peppers autobiography, the heat-seeking rendition of Straight Life had
apparently been released before on the cheapo LaserLight label, but the rest of
the material on the two CDs is officially out for the first time. The funky-butt
marathon Red Car might come as a surprise since jazz chroniclers never give
Pepper his due as a soul-jazzer, but he gets it completely, swinging madly at
all times. His lyrical gifts were rarely put forth more passionately than on
Gordon Jenkins Goodbye, and he justifiably pats himself on the back verbally
after his performance of Body and Soul. This is a rather informal album,
probably never intended for release and definitely intended to end-run the
bootleggers. The sound is amazingly decent for a concert recorded off the
soundboard onto a cassette. There are some serious glitches: For Freddie fades
out after only 41 seconds, only to reemerge when the performance had moved on to
a rather different musical context (Laurie Pepper says this was because they had
to turn the cassette over!), and Landscape begins with a fade-in to a piano solo
in progress. But these are forgivable, given the value of what the young
anonymous Japanese sound engineer had been able to preserve.


Tracks:

CD1:
01. Landscape (Pepper)
02. Besame Mucho (Vasques)
03. Red Car (Pepper)
04. Goodbye (Jenkins)
05. Straight Life (Pepper)

CD2:
1. Road Waltz (Pepper)
2. For Freddie (part 1) (Pepper)
3. For Freddie (part 2) (Pepper)
4. Body and Soul (Heyman-Sour-Eyton-Green)
5. Talk
6. Rhythm-A-Ning (Monk)
7. Blues Encore (inc.) (Pepper)

Personnel:

Art Pepper - alto sax
George Cables - piano
David Williams - bass
Carl Burnett - drums