Art Pepper

Art Pepper – Stardust (1985/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 22, 2023 · Comments off

Originally reissued as part of the Promise Kept: The Complete Artist House Recordings boxed set, now available separately . LP contains the original 4 tracks – CD/Digital include an additional 6 bonus tracks . Remastered by Grammy? winner Michael Graves, with vinyl cut by Jeff Powell Producer John Snyder had always wanted to record Pepper and booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York. At the time, Pepper was under contract to Contemporary Records and label head, Les Koenig, decided he would record the gigs, quashing any notion Snyder had of doing the same. However, Art promised Snyder that he’d record an album for Snyder’s label, Artists House, at some point down the road. Together they wound up making four. Here again on vinyl, CD & Digital are the original albums drawn from these sessions, lovingly recreated in their original form, remastered by Grammy? winner Michael Graves and recut by Jeff Powell. Stardust (originally issued in 1985) features Pepper’s takes on Hoagy Carmichael title track, Duke Ellington’s “In A Mellow Tone,” and more. The CD and Digital add six bonus performances from the sessions. “John and Art both kept their promises. John brought Art into the wider world; he put him on the road. Just as he said he would, he brought him to New York and to the Village Vanguard, got his picture in the papers, got him on the radio. From Art, John got his dearest wish. He made these recordings.” -Laurie Pepper

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Art Pepper – New York Album (1985/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 15, 2023 · Comments off

New York Album is an album by saxophonist Art Pepper recorded in 1979 at the sessions that produced So in Love but not released on the Galaxy label until 1985.

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Art Pepper – Artworks (1984/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 24, 2023 · Comments off

Artworks is an album by saxophonist Art Pepper recorded in 1979 at the sessions that produced So in Love but not released on the Galaxy label until 1984.

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Art Pepper – So In Love (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 5, 2023 · Comments off

Originally reissued as part of the Promise Kept: The Complete Artist House Recordings boxed set, now available separately . LP contains the original 5 tracks – CD/Digital include an additional 3 bonus tracks . Remastered by Grammy? winner Michael Graves, with vinyl cut by Jeff Powell Producer John Snyder had always wanted to record Pepper and booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York. At the time, Pepper was under contract to Contemporary Records and label head, Les Koenig, decided he would record the gigs, quashing any notion Snyder had of doing the same. However, Art promised Snyder that he’d record an album for Snyder’s label, Artists House, at some point down the road. Together they wound up making four. Here again on vinyl, CD & Digital are the original albums drawn from these sessions, lovingly recreated in their original form, remastered by Grammy? winner Michael Graves and recut by Jeff Powell. So In Love (originally issued in 1980) features Pepper’s takes on classics from Thelonious Monk, Cole Porter, and Hoagy Carmichael, plus a pair of originals including “Blues For Blanche.” The CD and Digital add three bonus performances from the sessions. The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow noted: “Pepper is in excellent form throughout the album, giving these songs heart-wrenching interpretations”. “John and Art both kept their promises. John brought Art into the wider world; he put him on the road. Just as he said he would, he brought him to New York and to the Village Vanguard, got his picture in the papers, got him on the radio. From Art, John got his dearest wish. He made these recordings.” -Laurie Pepper

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Art Pepper – All The Things You Are (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 4, 2023 · Comments off

Art Pepper - All The Things You Are (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Art Pepper with Warne Marsh is an album by alto saxophonist Art Pepper and tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh which was recorded in 1956 but not released on the Contemporary label in Japan until 1986. Several tracks were released on Pepper’s 1972 compilation The Way It Was!, the title of the US CD reissue of this material.
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Chet Baker and Art Pepper – Playboys (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 13, 2022 · Comments off

These 1956 Pacific Jazz sides appeared in 1961 under the title Playboys. Myth and rumor persist that, under legal advice from the publisher of a similarly named magazine, the collection would have to be retitled. It was renamed Picture of Heath, as more than half of the tracks are Jimmy Heath compositions. Regardless, the music is the absolute same. These are the third sessions to feature the dynamic duo of Art Pepper (alto sax) and Chet Baker (trumpet). Their other two meetings had produced unequivocal successes. The first was during a brief July 1956 session at the Forum Theater in L.A. Baker joined forces with Pepper’s sextet, ultimately netting material for the Route LP. Exactly three months to the day later, Pepper and Baker reconvened to record tracks for the Chet Baker Big Band album. The quartet supporting Baker and Pepper on Playboys includes Curtis Counce (bass), Phil Urso (tenor sax), Carl Perkins (piano), and Larance Marable (drums). Baker and Pepper have an instinctual rapport that yields outstanding interplay. The harmony constant throughout the practically inseparable lines that Baker weaves with Pepper drives the bop throughout the slinky “For Minors Only.” The soloists take subtle cues directly from each other, with considerable contributions from Perkins, Counce, and Marable. With the notorious track record both Baker and Pepper had regarding other decidedly less successful duets, it is unfortunate that more recordings do not exist that captured their special bond. These thoroughly enjoyable and often high-energy sides are perfect for bop connoisseurs as well as mainstream jazz listeners. ~ Lindsay Planer

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Art Pepper – Surf Ride (1956) [Japanese SHM-SACD 2012] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

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Surf Ride is an album by saxophonist Art Pepper featuring sessions from 1952-54 which was originally released as a 12 inch LP on the Savoy label in 1956. All of the recording presented in original Mono format.

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Art Pepper – Meets The Rhythm Section (1957) [Analogue Productions 2002] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

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By the time of this, Art Pepper’s tenth recording as a leader, he was making his individual voice on the alto saxophone leave the cozy confines of his heroes Charlie Parker and Lee Konitz. Joining the Miles Davis rhythm section of pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones made the transformation all that more illuminating. 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.

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Art Pepper – Gettin’ Together (1960) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2012] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · July 7, 2022 · Comments off

As a sort of follow-up to Art Pepper’s matchup with Miles Davis’ trio in the 1957 classic Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, Pepper utilizes Davis’ sidemen on this 1960 near-classic. In addition to pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, trumpeter Conte Candoli makes the group a quintet on four of the eight numbers. This time around, rather than emphasizing standards, Pepper performs just three (“Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise,” Thelonious Monk’s “Rhythm-A-Ning,” and “The Way You Look Tonight”) and includes three originals of his own: “Diane,” “Bijou the Poodle,” and “Gettin’ Together.” The music is all very straight-ahead and bop-oriented, but as usual, Pepper brings something very personal and unique to his playing; he sounds like no one else.

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Art Pepper – The Way It Was! (1972) [MFSL 2008] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

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Despite his very erratic lifestyle, altoist Art Pepper never made a bad record. This collection is better than most. The first four titles team together Pepper with tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh, pianist Ronnie Ball, bassist Ben Tucker, and drummer Gary Frommer for generally intriguing explorations of four standards. One can feel the influence of Lennie Tristano (with Pepper in Lee Konitz’s place), although Pepper had his own sound and a more hard-swinging style. The success of the Pepper-Marsh front line makes one wish that they had recorded together again. The other three selections are leftovers from a trio of classic Pepper albums, and all are quite worthwhile. Pepper is heard backed by three separate rhythm sections, which include pianists Red Garland, Dolo Coker, or Wynton Kelly; either Paul Chambers or Jimmy Bond on bass; and Philly Joe Jones, Frank Butler, or Jimmy Cobb on drums. Overall, this album sticks to bop standards and finds Art Pepper in top form.

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Art Pepper plus Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics (1959/2006) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Certainly one of the most important sessions in Pepper’s entire recording career, if not the history of jazz, this classic 1959 recording features the legendary sax player backed by an astounding big band that includes drummer Mel Lewis and alto sax icon Bud Shank. The album features brilliant arrangements by Marty Paich (who would later orchestrate for artists like Carly Simon and Elton John).

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Art Pepper – Promise Kept: The Complete Artists House Recordings (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Art Pepper - Promise Kept: The Complete Artists House Recordings (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Here for the first time are the complete ‘Artists House’ sessions including 21 previously unissued takes. The original albums drawn from these sessions, ‘So In Love’, ‘Artworks’, ‘New York Album’, and ‘Stardust’, have been remastered and expanded with additional takes.
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Art Pepper – Mucho Calor. (1975/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Mucho Calor (subtitled A Presentation in Latin Jazz) is an album by trumpeter Conte Candoli and alto saxophonist Art Pepper in an octet with tenor saxophonist Bill Perkins, pianist Russ Freeman, bassist Ben Tucker, drummer Chuck Flores and percussionists Jack Costanzo and Mike Pacheko recorded in 1957 and originally released on the Andex label.

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Art Pepper – Foxy Lady Session: Art, Warne, Buddy, Carol (1975/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Art Pepper - Foxy Lady Session: Art, Warne, Buddy, Carol (1975/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

An afternoon jam session at an L.A. club called The Foxy Lady. April 20, 1975: Art Pepper a.s., Warne Marsh t.s., Buddy Collette clari, flute, Mike Lang keyboard, Tommy Vig ds, John Morrell guitar, Carol Kaye bass.
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Art Pepper – + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics (Contemporary Records 70th Anniversary Series) (1960/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Art Pepper - + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics (Contemporary Records 70th Anniversary Series) (1960/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

Released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series celebrating 70 years of Contemporary Records, Saxophonist Art Pepper’s classic big band album +Eleven features modern jazz classics by Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and more. First released in 1960 and recorded by legendary engineers Roy DuNann and Howard Holzer, this new edition features remastered audio from the original tapes.
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