Art Pepper (as), George Cables (p), David Williams (b), Carl Burnett (ds) Album：" Art Pepper / Unreleased Art, Vol. 1 Abashiri " Recorded：Live at 'Abashiri Shimin Kaikan Hall' Hokkaido, Japan, November 22, 1981
Possibly the greatest ballad player jazz had. Art was not afraid of playing those smears and slurs that can't be put on music notation but a seasoned listener understands. My favorite alto player. Jackie Mack 2nd.
I had the pleasure of playing a wedding gig with Art. After the wedding ceremonies were over, the entire wedding party and guests, took their chairs and placed them on the dance floor, sat down and listened to Art, as if it were a concert, ( to me it was ). Also on the gig was drummer Lou Malin. In the late fifties, early sixties, Art used to work a joint in San Pedro, Ca., I believe was called the Spot. Thank you Art, for your incredible gift.
Unbelievably beautiful. I think alto players specifically will appreciate the complexity of his sound, it's genuinely hard to explain. NO other alto player conveys as much emotion as Art did. There's tiny nuanced lilts, slurs, stutters...and it goes way beyond 'technique', it's just pure expression. Just incredible.
couldn't be better explained... "Over the rainbow" is so trite, and yet it becomes beautiful melodic material in Art's hands, heart and whatever it takes to play this way.
I also commend author Michael Connolly in acknowledging the gifts of Art Pepper in the development of his character Harry Bosch. Art’s artistry is an integral part of Amazon’s detective series Bosch.
@@janiceblacburn9793 Your welcome! Also, Connolly's books in the Harry Bosch series are splendid detective stories. The first book I read in the series was Angel's Flight. This is a fine police procedural with an explosive conclusion.
Over the years there have been Many Alto/ Tenor Players. Only very few became / become magnets of deep heartfelt emotion. Art Pepper holds back just enough to extend the importance of each note as an increment of its place and to the composition. He allows his partners the opportunity to present their talents in similar fashion. He plays at a pace lifting what he has to work with to the next level. The style he exudes belongs to him alone. Thank you for inviting us in.
I had the good fortune to see Art and then to meet George Cables , c. 1984. This is lovely to hurtful, for any individual can relate to it, contemplate, regress to an absorption, because this is a test, a challenge, a wonder, for any player, any listener who hopes to resume believing in self, in art, in humanity, in anything wondrous this music inspires. Gorgeous. We do, and should love, the challenges such gifts to us offer.
Art was always the sincerest musician and such a wonderful inspiration and showing us how we should all try to express ourselves when we play his playing lives in my life Nigel Nash in Britain
I was on a Carnegie Hall line waiting for an Art Pepper ticket , and got it only after the box office guy assumed I wanted one for Vladimir Horowitz. But the concert turned out differently because Art had just died and Sonny Stitt came on instead. Also this Body and Soul is beautiful and a match for Dexter Gordon's version at the Village Vanguard.
Hi Christopher - I guess another man's meat is another man's poison!..I love Peppers playing but after reading the book I couldn't listen to him for about 3 months, it really got under my skin!..I wondered how he could write such a beautiful piece namely "Diane" and yet hate her with such a passion!
Crazy to think that just 6 months after this was released Art passed away. I remember all the time at his home with Laurie, night clubs in the LA area and his funeral like it was yesterday. That was a sad day....
I can't give it to anyone else. No other saxophonist has ever been such an inspiration. So heart felt. You could say it about anything in life but certainly on the alto: What else is there?
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Superlative, lyrical, passionate .. one of the True Saxophone Greats.. Hall of Famer.. Like Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Charlie Parker & others.. 🍀👍🏻🎶🎶🙏🏼🎷🎵🎶
listen at what he does between 10:50 and 11:25 ... to me this has an equal in rythmic and harmonic beauty only in Strode rode played by Sonny Rollins...
He had personal problems which made him difficult to promote & make money out of him. That's why the public don't know. We hear him, we know. He expressed IDEAS. He was an individual while the rest of us wiggle our fingers trying to sound like Bird to impress people. The sincerity of Art Pepper = a Music lesson...freedom to be ourselves.
@today is not yesterday Jeff Berlin made a similar point years ago and he was called a racist for it. But they don't mention Miles Davis' quote about choking a white man.
