Samba Mom Mom
from ART: (music mentioned in) Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman (11 Tracks) by Art Pepper
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Recorded in 1976 at Contemporary Studio Los Angeles (the Living Legend session) with Hampton Hawes, Charlie Haden, Shelly Manne
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From the Memoir:
...in spite of its title, not a samba, but (as Shelly pointed out) a “Latinish, islandy” piece of rollicking whimsicality that, likewise, pulled you from your
chair and made you jump and wiggle. The two and a half years
of playing tenor for dancing in Synanon (“Watermelon Man” and
funky simple stuff like that) had pushed Art away from what I’ve
always considered the bebop head-trip and back to his rowdy,
crowd-pleasing roots on Central Avenue where music had to do
with dancing, with the body’s response to the beat of the blood.
...in spite of its title, not a samba, but (as Shelly pointed out) a “Latinish, islandy” piece of rollicking whimsicality that, likewise, pulled you from your
chair and made you jump and wiggle. The two and a half years
of playing tenor for dancing in Synanon (“Watermelon Man” and
funky simple stuff like that) had pushed Art away from what I’ve
always considered the bebop head-trip and back to his rowdy,
crowd-pleasing roots on Central Avenue where music had to do
with dancing, with the body’s response to the beat of the blood.
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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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