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: A Late Pepper Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
The sensitive interplay between Art Pepper, Tommy Flanagan, Billy Higgins and Red Mitchell make this 1979 session a classic from Art Pepper's "late" period, when he emerged from the seemingly irreversible oblivion of heroin and prison to once again scale the musical heights he had reached earlier in recordings such as "Modern Art."Art Pepper was not a jazz pioneer. He invented no new approaches to the music, and it is too easy to deconstruct his playing into the sum of influences that are obvious to educated ears.
On this recording (and on nearly everything else he ever recorded) he demonstrates that the greatness of a jazz performance is based on far more than the daring innovations that win critical accolades and ample space in books and essays on the history of jazz.
Pepper's performance on "September Song" demonstrates what really matters in jazz: eloquent expression of emotion. Pepper poured his heart and soul into this ballad, as his own days dwindled down to a precious few. His solos here -- along with incandescent solo breaks from Flanagan and Mitchell -- are among the most heartrending things he ever did.
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