Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section

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Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Album cover
Album by Art Pepper
Released 1957
Recorded 19 January 1957
Genre Jazz
Length 43:38
Label Contemporary/OJC
Producer Lester Koenig
Professional reviews
Art Pepper chronology
The Art of Pepper
(1957)		 Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
(1957)		 Art Pepper + 11 Modern Jazz Classics
(1959)

Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is a 1957 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, who at the time were the rhythm section for Miles Davis's quintet.

According to legend, the album was recorded under enormous pressure: Pepper first learnt of it on the morning of the recording session, had never met the other musicians (though he admired them all), hadn't played for two weeks (according to the liner notes) or six months (according to Pepper's autobiography Straight Life), was playing on an instrument in a bad state of repair, and was suffering from a drug problem. (This story is clearly unreliable: the discography in Straight Life reveals, for instance, that he had recorded many sessions in the previous weeks, including one just five days before.) Whatever the truth of the recording's circumstances, it is considered a milestone in Pepper's career, and launched a series of albums for Les Koenig's Contemporary label which remain the cornerstone of Pepper's recorded work.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Porter) –5:30
  2. "Red Pepper Blues" (Garland) –3:39
  3. "Imagination" (Burke–VanHeusen) –5:56
  4. "Waltz Me Blues" (Chambers–Pepper) –2:58
  5. "Straight Life" (Pepper) –4:02
  6. "Jazz Me Blues" (Delaney) –4:50
  7. "Tin Tin Deo" (Fuller–Pozo) –7:42
  8. "Star Eyes" (DePaul–Raye) –5:12
  9. "Birks Works" (Gillespie) –4:15
(Recorded on 19 January 1957.)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Sources

  • Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, & Brian Priestley. Jazz: The Rough Guide. ISBN 1-85828-528-3
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6
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