Art Pepper - Straight Life
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Artist: Art PepperEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Ojc
Soundtracks:
- Surf Ride
- Nature Boy
- Straight Life
- September Song
- Make a List (Make a Wish)
- Long Ago (And Far Away) [*]
Free Music Notes for Straight Life
Free Music Review: Brilliant Music
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the definitive records made by altoist Art Pepper. Eventhough Art had many personal problems, he managed to consistently produce records of a very high calibre.
The music here is either furious and up tempo (Surf Ride, Straight Life) or immensely emotional. Close the lights, sit back and listen to "Nature Boy" and "September Song". They will blow you away with emotion as Art explores and searches with his sax. If this does not move your heart then nothing will.
This is simply brilliant and passionate music which few other artists could match.
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As Art Pepper readied himself to die--or further pushed himself toward the brink of death--he seemed determined to say everything possible, quickly and forthrightly. In doing so, he created an explosive ream of albums for the Galaxy Records label, most of them featuring Pepper with only the slender backing of a piano-bass-drums setup. He was all over the sessions, picking ripe old tunes and letting fly on them, spinning his silken lines into adventurous nuggets that curbed and then redirected his playing. On Straight Life and on several of the Galaxy sessions (collected in their blessed entirety on the 16-CD The Complete Galaxy Recordings), he has the rhythmic backing of Billy Higgins on drums. Like Pepper, Higgins can whisper his parts and then shout them out with clapping power. These are all tunes Pepper fans will know but they're tremendously fresh, as is their interpreter--who would die less than three years later. --Andrew BartlettJazz Music CDs
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