Art Pepper - Intensity
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Free Music Notes for Intensity
Free Music Review: Fine Effort
Hit: 5 Stars
This is another fine album worth buying from the many splendid albums produced by Art Pepper during the 1956 to 1960 period.
All songs are great as Art displays greater intensity during his improvisations and succeeds admirably in putting his own stamp on these well known standards. Pianist Dolo Coker, bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Frank Butler were less well known than other rythym players during the period but manage to provide splendid support.
Everything just clicks in this session!
Free Music Review: What Are You Doing? Buy This Now!
Hit: 5 Stars
An album like this is one of the reasons we that are smitten by jazz fever can't help but pour a big part of our incomes to find that one jazz artist that we overlooked, despite all of the money spent. This one pays handsome dividends: The driving bass intro in I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me alone is worth the twelve or so greenbacks, and Gone With The Wind is priceless. In fact I would almost pay the price of this CD for Peppers' gaze on the cover!Free Music Review: One of Pepper's best records
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is my favorite Art Pepper record from the late 50s. Though he made several excellent records for Contemporary, two of which ostensibly feature better (more well-known) rhythm sections ("... Meets the Rhythm Section," and "Gettin' Together,") this album has better playing from the leader than the latter of those two, and better tunes than the former.Free Music Review: I agree
Hit: 5 Stars
I first bought this album in the eighties and it is still my favorite Art Pepper album. It's very intimate (just a quartet) and has especially fiery and "intense" alto playing by Art. Plus great group interplay. I love Dolo Coker's playing, and Frank Butler is outstanding. I wish this group had recorded more together.Free Music Review: One Of The Better Pepper Recordings
Hit: 4 Stars
I like early Art Pepper for many reasons. I thought his sense of swing back in these days was great, his tone was better too, but I also felt his playing served the music more than some mindless blowing like some of his later work. I liked his approach to music in his early days.
"Intensity" maybe a fitting title for this recording as you can hear a lot of restraint in Art's playing, which in turn, makes it more intense sounding. On his later recordings, he had a tendency to play a lot of unnecessary notes which didn't do anything but serve his own ego and make the music much more harsh, which I'm not particularly fond of, his recording "Winter Moon" is a fine example of this, but I do enjoy some of his later work like his "Village Vanguard" sessions and "The Hollywood All-Star Sessions." Thankfully, his recordings from 1960 and back were not like this at all. He played great here. Pepper is joined by Dolo Coker on piano, Jimmy Bond on bass, and Frank Butler on drums.
This is a one of Art's last great recordings. I would recommend this to anybody willing to give Pepper a listen.