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Recorded at Contemporary Studio Los Angeles, CA 1976 (the Living Legend session) with Hampton Hawes, Charlie Haden, Shelly Manne
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From the Memoir:
It's a composition that illustrates Art’s genius for a dramatic structured
narrative and embodies, in the actual chart, as no standard could,
all Art’s morphing ambiguities of mood, his subtlety, mystery,
and sweetness, his solid, swinging funkiness, and the chaos in
his rage. It also maps the full range of his musical experience,
from blues and swing to bebop and beyond, his evolution as an
artist. Before I heard “Ophelia,” I’d based my respect for Art on
the opinions of others and then on the effect on me of his beauty
and swing. Now Art’s music was teaching me how to listen and
what to listen for.
It's a composition that illustrates Art’s genius for a dramatic structured
narrative and embodies, in the actual chart, as no standard could,
all Art’s morphing ambiguities of mood, his subtlety, mystery,
and sweetness, his solid, swinging funkiness, and the chaos in
his rage. It also maps the full range of his musical experience,
from blues and swing to bebop and beyond, his evolution as an
artist. Before I heard “Ophelia,” I’d based my respect for Art on
the opinions of others and then on the effect on me of his beauty
and swing. Now Art’s music was teaching me how to listen and
what to listen for.
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from ART: (music mentioned in) Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman (11 Tracks),
released May 27, 2014
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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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