Vanguard Max
by Art Pepper
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When Art was recording the wonderful Straight Life album for Fantasy/Galaxy, the pianist Tommy Flanagan had a slight problem with Art’s tune “Make a List (Make a Wish)”. The arrangement seemed unnecessarily complex to him. At least that’s what I surmised based on an ironic one-liner he tossed out. Art went over the chart with him. It took a while. When Art finished explaining the arrangement, Flanagan asked, “And then what do we do?” Art said, “Then we blow.” “Ohhhh,” says, Tommy, “THEN we blow.”
Sometimes Art’s arrangements were kind of complex, especially a few he wrote on the East Coast Tour in ’77 on his way to play at the Vanguard. “My Friend John” and “For Freddie,” were two of those. They also swung beautifully and gave Art what all his original arrangements gave him, a sort of sculptor’s armature on which he played and wove his little stories. And he re-wrote both those charts after we got home,—after the passionate drugged madness of the Vanguard session—to make them more playable.
Vanguard Max was really just a blues, but the arrangement, though adorable, was a little difficult. They never got it right, but Art never got around to rewriting it and never played it again after New York. This is an alternate track, not available anywhere else.
When Art was recording the wonderful Straight Life album for Fantasy/Galaxy, the pianist Tommy Flanagan had a slight problem with Art’s tune “Make a List (Make a Wish)”. The arrangement seemed unnecessarily complex to him. At least that’s what I surmised based on an ironic one-liner he tossed out. Art went over the chart with him. It took a while. When Art finished explaining the arrangement, Flanagan asked, “And then what do we do?” Art said, “Then we blow.” “Ohhhh,” says, Tommy, “THEN we blow.”
Sometimes Art’s arrangements were kind of complex, especially a few he wrote on the East Coast Tour in ’77 on his way to play at the Vanguard. “My Friend John” and “For Freddie,” were two of those. They also swung beautifully and gave Art what all his original arrangements gave him, a sort of sculptor’s armature on which he played and wove his little stories. And he re-wrote both those charts after we got home,—after the passionate drugged madness of the Vanguard session—to make them more playable.
Vanguard Max was really just a blues, but the arrangement, though adorable, was a little difficult. They never got it right, but Art never got around to rewriting it and never played it again after New York. This is an alternate track, not available anywhere else.
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released November 22, 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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