Art Pepper Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section Lester Koenigliner Notes

1957 studio album by Art Pepper

Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Studio album past Art Pepper
Released	1957 (1957)
Recorded	January nineteen, 1957
Genre	Jazz
Length	43:38
Characterization	Gimmicky/Original Jazz Classics
Producer	Lester Koenig
Art Pepper chronology
Modern Art (1957) Fine art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Department (1957) Mucho Calor (1957)

Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is a 1957 jazz album by saxophonist Fine art Pepper with Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, who were the rhythm section for Miles Davis's quintet at the time. The album is considered a milestone in Pepper'due south career.^{[one] [2]}

Recording [edit]

According to Pepper, the album was recorded under enormous force per unit area, as he first learned of the recording session the morning he was due in the studio, and he had never met the other musicians, all of whom he greatly admired.^{[i] [3] : 192–195} He was playing on an musical instrument in a bad state of repair, and was suffering from a drug problem.^{[iii] : 192–195} Purportedly, Pepper had non played the saxophone for some time, either for 2 weeks (according to the liner notes), or half dozen months (according to Pepper'southward autobiography Straight Life).^{[three] : 192–195} However, the discography in Straight Life indicates that Pepper had recorded many sessions in the previous weeks, including one five days before.^{[3] : 524–525}

Reception [edit]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[iv]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	(Core Collection) [v] [half-dozen]
The All Music Guide	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[seven]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[8]
Jazzwise	[nine]

Michael G. Nastos of AllMusic called the recording "a classic e meets west, cool plus hot but never lukewarm combination that provides many bright moments for the quartet during this exceptional appointment from that great twelvemonth in music, 1957."^[4]

Brian Morton and Richard Cook, writing for The Penguin Jazz Guide (10th ed.), described Meets the Rhythm Section as "a poetic, burning date, with all iv men playing above themselves…. Between them, they'd delivered a masterpiece."^[10] In previous Penguin Guide editions, the album was included in the "Cadre Collection," and received a four-star rating (of a possible four stars).^{[5] [vi]}

Becky Byrkit, writing for AllMusic, deemed the anthology "a diamond of recorded jazz history."^[1]

The New York Times critic Ben Ratliff described Meets the Rhythm Section as "an honest tape; if yous believe the story of its making, you'd have to conclude that Pepper, unprepared and unarmored, was forced to pull the music out of himself, since tepid run-throughs and stock licks weren't going to work in such exalted visitor."^[11]

Track listing [edit]

1. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Dwelling house To" (Cole Porter) – 5:25
2. "Scarlet Pepper Blues" (Fine art Pepper, Scarlet Garland) – 3:37
3. "Imagination" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – v:52
4. "Waltz Me Blues" (Art Pepper, Paul Chambers) – two:56
5. "Direct Life" (Fine art Pepper) – 3:59
6. "Jazz Me Blues" (Tom Delaney) – 4:47
7. "Can Can Deo" (Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo) – 7:42
8. "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 5:12
9. "Birks' Works" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 4:17
10. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:36 [added to the remastered recording in 2002]

(Recorded on Jan 19, 1957 at Contemporary's Studios, Los Angeles.)

Personnel [edit]

• Fine art Pepper - alto saxophone
• Red Garland - piano
• Paul Chambers - bass
• Philly Joe Jones - drums

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Byrkit, Becky (2001). Vladimir Bogdanov; Chris Woodstra; Stephen Thomas Erlewine (eds.). The All Music Guide. AllMusic (4th ed.). p. 1358. ISBN0879306270 . Retrieved 20 February 2015.
2. ^ Yanow, Scott (2000). Bebop. Miller Freeman. p. 327. ISBN0879306084 . Retrieved 20 February 2015.
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Pepper, Fine art; Laurie Pepper (1994) [1979]. Directly Life: The Story of Fine art Pepper. Schirmer. ISBN0306805588 . Retrieved 20 Feb 2015.
4. ^ ^{a b} Nastos, Michael K.. Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Department at AllMusic
5. ^ ^{a b} Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1043. ISBN0-1410-2327-9.
6. ^ ^{a b} Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (ninth ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1142. ISBN978-0-14-103401-0.
7. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Rock Jazz Record Guide . United states of america: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 160. ISBN0-394-72643-X.
8. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0195313734.
9. ^ "ART PEPPER – MEETS THE RHYTHM Department ★★★★★". Jazzwise. 27 August 2015. Retrieved xxx July 2020.
10. ^ Morton, Brian; Richard Cook (2010) [1992]. The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (10th ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 200–201. ISBN978-0-14-104831-four.
11. ^ Ratliff, Ben (2002). "47. ART PEPPER: Fine art Pepper meets The Rhythm Department". The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings . Times Books. pp. 121–123. ISBN0805070680 . Retrieved 20 Feb 2015.

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