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The Hollywood All-Star Sessions

By Art Pepper

Label: Galaxy Music Group
Released: 2001
Track listing:

Disc 1

Art Pepper: The Hollywood All-Star Sessions

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2001

Aside from serving as a casebook study in self–destructive behavior, Art Pepper was one of the most consistently brilliant saxophonists ever to emerge from the so–called West Coast school of Jazz. The well–named Hollywood All–Star Sessions, on which he performed as a “sideman,” were recorded in 1979–82, the last of them (with alto saxophonist Lee Konitz) ...

Art Pepper: The Hollywood All-Star Sessions

by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 2001

Just when the jazz community believes no more gold can be mined from the archives of the titan altoist Art Pepper, a mother lode is released. First of all, a thumbnail sketch. Art Pepper emerged in the late 1940s as a formidable foil to the supremacy of Charlie Parker in the alto saxophone arena. After playing ...

Art Pepper: The Hollywood All-Star Sessions

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 1, 2001

Let’s face it, when historians and other purveyors of the jazz legacy consider the scene during the 1970s, a bleak outlook is usually the upshot. Jazz had become commercialized, fusionized, rock infested, and raped. Even the modest amount of mainstream fare that was being released to little public notice seemed to pale in comparison with the ...