ART PEPPER MEETS RHYTHM SECTION- CONTEMPORARY S7532 NM
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Genuine Contemporary Records pressing in stereo probably pressed in 1970's. Not an OJC reissue but a true analogue pressing in near mint condition. Jacket is vg+ with a little ring wear but still looks nice. Has the green print on back. Sounds very similar to my original which I paid big bucks for! Recognized as one of the best sax sessions ever recorded.
v Joining the Miles Davis rhythm section of pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and It's a classic east meets west, cool plus hot but never lukewarm combination that provides many bright moments for the quartet during this exceptional date from that great year in music, 1957. A bit of a flip, loosened but precise interpretation of the melody on "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" gets the ball rolling, followed by a "Bags Groove" parallel with "Red Pepper Blues," and a delicate, atypical treatment of "Imagination." A compositional collaboration of Pepper and Chambers on the quick "Waltz Me Blues" and hard-edged, running-as-fast-as-he-can take of "Straight Life" really sets the gears whirring.Philly Joe Jones is a great bop drummer, no doubt, one of the all-time greats with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach. His crisp Latin-to-swing pace for "Tin Tin Deo" deserves notice, masterful in its creation and seamlessness. Pepper makes a typical "Star Eyes" brighter, and he goes into a lower octave tone, more like a tenor, for "Birks Works" and the bonus track "The Man I Love." It's clear he has heard his share of Stan Getz in this era. Though Art Pepper played with many a potent trio, this one inspires him to the maximum, and certainly makes for one of his most substantive recordings after his initial incarcerations, and before his second major slip into the deep abyss of drug addiction.
Tracks Title Composer Time 1 You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To Porter 5:30 2 Red Pepper Blues Garland, Pepper 3:39 3 Imagination Burke, VanHeusen 5:56 4 Waltz Me Blues Chambers, Pepper 2:58 5 Straight Life Mandel, Pepper 4:02 6 Jazz Me Blues Delaney 4:50 7 Tin Tin Deo Fuller, Gillespie, Pozo 7:42 8 Star Eyes DePaul, Raye 5:12 9 Birk's Works Gillespie 4:15 please check my other listings thanksprice rating
