Kind of Pepper

For a few years, I got to travel with these bands—they included me—a dream come true. I’ve tried to take you on a trip with me and Art and the bands while reliving all of it a little—in writing it, in pictures I took, scenes and conversations I recall. And in the music Art asked me to record. About which I feel absolutely safe in saying it: That’s it. That’s jazz.

Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves - Salt And Pepper +8 (1963) {Impulse! IMPD-210 rel 1997}
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© 1963, 1997 Impulse! / MCA Records / GRP Records | IMPD-210
Jazz / Bebop / Straight-Ahead Jazz / Saxophone

Head to head blowing from Sonny Sitt and Paul Gonsalves – just the kind of twin-horn performance that Stitt was famous for in his live battle days, and one that also reminds us that Gonsalves can be a very loose swinger when he wants to be! The tracks are all long, and played with the sort of feel you'd hear if you caught these guys live at some small southside club – and the solos also show the kind of inventiveness and imagination you'd catch in that sort of setting – backed by a swinging rhythm combo that features Hank Jones on piano, Milt Hinton on bass, and Osie Johnson on drums.

Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol. 3 - The Croydon Concert May 14, 1981 (2008) {2CD Set, Widow's Taste ‎APM08001}
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© 1981, 2008 Widow's Taste | APM08001
Jazz / Bebop / Cool / West Coast Jazz / Jazz Blues / Saxophone

In Unreleased Art, Vol. 3 of the Unreleased Art series, Laurie Pepper unearths yet another unreleased tape of a late-period Art Pepper performance – this time courtesy of an obsessive fan who had access to prime-sounding material. This double-CD set takes in a full concert from Pepper's working band of 1981, caught while on an exhausting tour of Europe and the U.K. – 18 dates in 21 days. By this time, after two years on the road, the team of Pepper, pianist Milcho Leviev – who from the testimony of Laurie Pepper's notes evidently had a tempestuous working relationship with the alto saxophonist – bassist Bob Magnusson and drummer Carl Burnett had the mutual ESP going good and hard.