Complete Village Vanguard Sessions

Art Pepper - Complete Village Vanguard Sessions

Complete Village Vanguard Sessions
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Artist: Art Pepper
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-04-17
Music Label: Contemporary
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Spoken Introduction
  2. Blues for Heard
  3. Spoken Introduction
  4. Scrapple from the Apple
  5. Spoken Introduction
  6. But Beautiful
  7. My Friend John
  8. Spoken Introduction
  9. Cherokee [#]
  10. Blues for Heard [#]
Music CD 2
  1. Spoken Introduction
  2. For Freddie [#]
  3. Spoken Introduction
  4. Valse Triste
  5. Live at the Vanguard
  6. Caravan [#]
  7. Blues for Heard [#]
Music CD 3
  1. Over the Rainbow
  2. The Trip
  3. Blues for Les
  4. A Night in Tunisia
Music CD 4
  1. Spoken Introduction
  2. No Limit
  3. Valse Triste [#]
  4. Spoken Introduction
  5. My Friend John [#]
  6. You Go to My Head
  7. Cherokee
  8. Blues for Heard [#]
Music CD 5
  1. Count off and Blues for Heard [#]
  2. Anthropology
  3. These Foolish Things
  4. For Freddie [#]
  5. Blues for Heard [#]
Music CD 6
  1. Spoken Introduction
  2. Las Cuevas de Mario
  3. Stella by Starlight
  4. Goodbye [#]
  5. Vanguard Max [#]
  6. Blues for Heard [#]
Music CD 7
  1. Count off and Vanguard Max
  2. Spoken Introduction
  3. Goodbye
  4. Spoken Introduction
  5. For Freddie
Music CD 8
  1. Announcement and False Start
  2. My Friend John [#]
  3. Spoken Introduction
  4. More for Les
  5. Cherokee [#]
  6. Blues for Heard [#]
Music CD 9
  1. Count off and for Freddie [#]
  2. More for Les [#]
  3. Caravan
  4. Labyrinth
  5. My Friend John [#]

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Free Music Review: Absolutely tremendous
Hit: 5 Stars

This is one of my favorite Art Pepper discs. He has played some tremendous music throughout his career and his trainwreck of a life. In the beginning, he was a total master of the West Coast School. It was light and reedy. His recordings from the laste 50's on the Contemporary label really swing. He played with some of the most talented rythm sections in the world. However, in this recording, Pepper has shown that he continued to grow. He is one of the rare sax players that can assimilate Coltrane's influence without losing his own individual sound.

I really love Coltrane's sound. He was a one of a kind genius, but when so many other sax players tried to take in the lessons of Coltrane. It is not that unusual. Many classical composers after Wagner absorbed Wagner's sound, but lost their individuality. Not Pepper. He got the energy and toughness from Trane, but still kept his own identity. Pepper sounds tough, original, and contemporary. He continued to grow to the end.

The band is wonderful. Elvin Jones on drums and the fabulous George Cables on piano. There is a fair amount of repetition because the recordings take place over several days. Art Pepper's announcements are sort of funny. The show the kind of asshole he really was. Reading his autobiography confirms this in spades. All of this makes the set even more interesting.

The sets are so cheap from the Amazon Market place vendors that you are paying only [...] What a deal!! The box set is very nicely done. Buy it. I have never regretted it. I really love live performance recordings anyway.

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Devoted fans of alto saxophonist Art Pepper share a fascination with Chet Baker fans. They find Pepper's excesses, so flatly confessed in his autobiography, Straight Life, great fodder for intense listening--which they are. Pepper had a rare talent for playing as if his horn were a lens on his torment. He played cushioned, cool melodies in the California jazz heyday and then went off to prison and hardscrabble years as an infamous heroin addict. By the time he performed the music on this massive nine-CD set, Pepper had made several comebacks, the latest of which was heroic--if fueled by chemicals and a furious need to prove himself during the Vanguard gigs caught here uninterrupted. The music bristles, whether in the pretty anguish of a solo-sax "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" or the numerous mad-charging bop heads Pepper tackles as if they were his last meals. He makes an ass of himself with some of the between-song banter, but it's all part of the big picture. For all the thorns and warts and complications, that picture shows unabated, undiluted, and unquenchable musical chops to burn here. The liner essay tells the whole sordid tale of Pepper gone from prison to a halfway house to a late-1970s rebound that urged some of his best music. If this lavish box, with its repetitions of tunes (all the takes, however, differ radically) is too much, try the individual volumes. --Andrew Bartlett

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