Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 2—the Last Concert
by Art Pepper
Paul Murphy
Paul Murphy
The long version of Mambo Koyama! I love Art Pepper. Art Lives!
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1. Landscape
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2. Talk
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3. Ophelia
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4. Talk
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5. Mambo Koyama
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7. Talk
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6. Over the Rainbow
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8. When You're Smiling
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about
SOMETHING ELSE REVIEW: S. VICTOR AARON
Sixteen days after his last performance at Washington’s Kennedy Center, Art Pepper died suddenly at the age of fifty-six. After leading a life controlled by a harrowing drug addiction and all the consequences that brought him, Pepper not only repaired his life, he devoted himself fully to his music, making his last few years his most fruitful.
He left this world at the top of his game, as one of the world’s foremost alto sax players. Like Clifford Brown, the last performance of his life was one of confidence and vitality that belied the fate soon to greet him. And now, we can confidently state these things because of Unreleased Art, Vol. II.
REVIEW: CAPT. CUTTLE:
The last but by no means the least! A truly live recording! Overflowing with vitality and improvisation, and even if you've listened to the repertoire a hundred times in other collections, the Last Concert is as fresh as mountain air!
Liner: In his autobiography, "Straight Life," Art said:
"[As a child,] Ibuilt up my own play world. I loved sports, and I'd play Iwas a boxer or a football player.
"...Boxing was the one Ireally got carried away with.
At that timeJoe Louis was coming up as a heavyweight. I would go out in the garage and pretend I was a fighter. Ihad a little box Isat on. I'd hear an imaginary bell and get up in this old garage andfight, and it was actually as if I was in the ring.
Sometimes I'd get hit andfall down and be stunned, and I'd hear the referee counting, and I'd get up at the last minute, andjust when everybody thought I was beaten, I'd catch my opponent with a left hook. And then I'd have him against the ropes. I'd knock
him out, and everybody would scream and throw money into the ring, and hollerfor me, and I'd hold my hands together and wave to the crowd."
On May 30, 1982, Art Pepper performed in the last concert of his last tour. This is the concert. He was 56 and was standing, victorious, at the end of the battle: his life. His struggles were
.. legendary, because his talent was so remark able and his drugged-out desperation and incarcerations so notorious. But, at the last minute, as in his childhood play, he triumphed. He had turned all of his fraught energy, at last, to music, recording, by the end, hundreds of albums, composing hundreds of tunes, all exceptional, because it wasn't in his nature to tolerate anything less. Ever.
Art's last comeback began in 1975 with the release of the "Living Legend" album on Contemporary. But it was only after publication of his autobiography, "Straight Life," at the end
,, of '79, that the touring and recording really began. And then, as publicity piled up and club
l>' owners and promoters learned that this popular but volatile artist could be relied on to be punctual and prepared and unfailingly brilliant, the gigs began to come nonstop. We'd been touring almost continuously when we arrived at the Kool Jazz Festival...
Sixteen days after his last performance at Washington’s Kennedy Center, Art Pepper died suddenly at the age of fifty-six. After leading a life controlled by a harrowing drug addiction and all the consequences that brought him, Pepper not only repaired his life, he devoted himself fully to his music, making his last few years his most fruitful.
He left this world at the top of his game, as one of the world’s foremost alto sax players. Like Clifford Brown, the last performance of his life was one of confidence and vitality that belied the fate soon to greet him. And now, we can confidently state these things because of Unreleased Art, Vol. II.
REVIEW: CAPT. CUTTLE:
The last but by no means the least! A truly live recording! Overflowing with vitality and improvisation, and even if you've listened to the repertoire a hundred times in other collections, the Last Concert is as fresh as mountain air!
Liner: In his autobiography, "Straight Life," Art said:
"[As a child,] Ibuilt up my own play world. I loved sports, and I'd play Iwas a boxer or a football player.
"...Boxing was the one Ireally got carried away with.
At that timeJoe Louis was coming up as a heavyweight. I would go out in the garage and pretend I was a fighter. Ihad a little box Isat on. I'd hear an imaginary bell and get up in this old garage andfight, and it was actually as if I was in the ring.
Sometimes I'd get hit andfall down and be stunned, and I'd hear the referee counting, and I'd get up at the last minute, andjust when everybody thought I was beaten, I'd catch my opponent with a left hook. And then I'd have him against the ropes. I'd knock
him out, and everybody would scream and throw money into the ring, and hollerfor me, and I'd hold my hands together and wave to the crowd."
On May 30, 1982, Art Pepper performed in the last concert of his last tour. This is the concert. He was 56 and was standing, victorious, at the end of the battle: his life. His struggles were
.. legendary, because his talent was so remark able and his drugged-out desperation and incarcerations so notorious. But, at the last minute, as in his childhood play, he triumphed. He had turned all of his fraught energy, at last, to music, recording, by the end, hundreds of albums, composing hundreds of tunes, all exceptional, because it wasn't in his nature to tolerate anything less. Ever.
Art's last comeback began in 1975 with the release of the "Living Legend" album on Contemporary. But it was only after publication of his autobiography, "Straight Life," at the end
,, of '79, that the touring and recording really began. And then, as publicity piled up and club
l>' owners and promoters learned that this popular but volatile artist could be relied on to be punctual and prepared and unfailingly brilliant, the gigs began to come nonstop. We'd been touring almost continuously when we arrived at the Kool Jazz Festival...
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released October 9, 2019
Piano, Roger Kellaway; Bass, David Williams; Drums, Carl Burnett
Piano, Roger Kellaway; Bass, David Williams; Drums, Carl Burnett
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Art Pepper Los Angeles, California
Born in 1925 in Gardena, CA, and raised in San Pedro, CA. Incredible life can't be summarized here! Read all about it in STRAIGHT LIFE at Amazon. Read what it was like being married to him in ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman. Amazon ditto.
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