Friday, July 29, 2011

Art Pepper Unreleased Art Vol IV The Art History Project

In her liner notes to Volume IV of the Art History Project, Art Pepper's widow describes him as a self-hating, alcoholic sex addict who turned to heroin in order to suppress these tendencies. Second only to Charlie Parker in the DownBeat polls of the day, nobody played alto saxophone as smooth and cool as Art Pepper. Unreleased Art, a three-disc set comprised of two-thirds never-before released material, traces Pepper's life in music from his golden era in the '50s through his prison- interrupted discovery of John Coltrane in the '60s, and concludes with his final period, fresh out of rehab in the '70s and playing as if his life depended on it.

Disc 1 - Pure Art (1951-1960)
01 - Art Pepper (Rogers) 5:20
02 - Fascinatin' Rhythm (Gershwin, Gershwin) 4:26
03 - Patricia (Pepper) 3:38
04 - Tickle Toe (Young) 2:53
05 - Pepper Returns (Pepper) 4:27
06 - Mambo de La Pinta (Pepper) 4:17
07 - These Foolish Things (RemindMe of You) (Strachey) 2:40
08 - Cool Bunny (Pepper) 4:15
09 - Besame Mucho (Skylar, Velasquez) 4:00
10 - Art's Oregano (Pepper) 3:10
11 - Diane (Pepper) 3:35
12 - I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me (Gaskill, McHugh) 5:24
13 - Straight Life (Pepper) 2:52
14 - Everything Happens to Me (Adair, Dennis) 3:07
15 - Nutmeg (Pepper) 3:13
16 - What's New? (Burke, Haggart) 4:06
17 - Begin the Beguine (Cole Porter) 7:21

Disc 2 - Hard Art (1960-1968 )
01 - Rehearsal (Pepper) 1:06
02 - Track 2 (Pepper) 7:53
03 - So in Love (Cole Porter) 10:56
04 - Talk (Pepper) 0:14
05 - That Crazy Blues (Pepper) 6:27
06 - D Section (Pepper) 10:46
07 - Chelsea Bridge (Billy Strayhorn) 5:11
 Disc 3 - Consummate Art (1972-1982)
01 - Caravan (Ellington, Mills, Tizol) 12:58
02 - Lost Life (Pepper) 8:39
03 - Landscape (Pepper) 12:48
04 - Angel Wings (Pepper) 5:19
05 - Historia de un Amor (Carlos Almaron) 7:45
06 - Mambo Koyama (Pepper) 14:13
07 - That's Love (Pepper) 7:30

Size:413.73 MB
Gene: jazz
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Format: MP3@320

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