rare Art Pepper video.

Posted by: Sigmund on 11 March 2009

... from his wife who sent it to someone on another audio forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNQgVMM4YxU

Posted on: 12 March 2009 by Skip

Great talent. Thanks for sharing this.

Posted on: 13 March 2009 by Geoff P

Over a period of about 6 months haunting one of my local 2nd hand vinyl shops which happens to be run by a guy who appreciates Jazz I managed to collect this 3 LP set:

This is from July 1977 and was the first time Pepper had appeared in New York as a leader. Well beyond his tumultuous battles with Heroin addiction it is marvellous stuff that I recommend. I guess Pepper had a lot of emotional baggage by this point which infuses his playing IMO.

regards
Geoff

Posted on: 13 March 2009 by Max Bass

"Saturday Night at the Vanguard"
I'll have to check it out. Especially because it has a great lineup including the master . . . Elvin Jones!

"Art Pepper + 11: Modern Jazz Classics" is always a good listen.

Max

Posted on: 14 March 2009 by Sigmund

Glad you liked the video. Yeah, Art was a hard swinger. I can also highly recommend his Savoy sides, The Discovery Sessions, a.k.a. Surf's Up, and Smack Up and Meets the Rhythm Section both for Prestige.

Posted on: 16 March 2009 by hungryhalibut

Geoff

There is another LP in the Vanguard set, called Volume 4 - More for Les. It's actually my favourite of the lot. It was a BBC documentary on Art that got me into Jazz back in 1984 - he was a brilliant player.

Nigel