Results for "Art Pepper"

Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Vol. 5: Stuttgart May 25, 1981

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 12, 2010

Recorded during a European tour by Pepper's “comeback quartet" with drummer Carl Burnett, bassist Bob Magnusson and pianist Milcho Leviev, Unreleased Art Vol. 5: Stuttgart May 25, 1981 is a genuine labor of love: Not only the performers' love of music but also the devotion of this alto saxophonist's fans, who sent their own recordings of ...

Jenny Davis: Inside You

by C. Michael Bailey
November 19, 2010

Jenny Davis' It Amazes Me (Self Produced, 2006) was a relaxed tuneful affair employing a crack quintet capable of multiple layers of musicianship. For Inside You, Davis whittles her quintet to a duo, featuring her regular guitarist Chuck Easton, and bassist Ted Enderle, furnishing a stripped-down swing that depends on its own momentum with which to ...

Art Pepper: Jazz Showcase, Chicago

by C. Michael Bailey
November 3, 2010

This 1977 Chicago Art Pepper performance was bootlegged in Spain. As it was stolen to begin with, the saxophonist's widow, Laurie Pepper re-purloined it, releasing it on her independent Widow's Taste label. That is the beauty of today's technology. Historically, this show came in the middle of Pepper's East Coast Tour capping the saxophonist's comeback before ...

Laurie Pepper and the Pirates

September 19, 2010

Laurie Pepper is one smart cookie. When I interviewed her for  my Wall Street Journal article on business-minded spouses of deceased jazz greats (Laurie is Art Pepper's widow), she told me the secret of her success: Making friends with worldwide collectors of bootleg recordings and releasing the material they send her on her Widow's Taste label. ...

Mambo Koyama

Featuring the music of Art Pepper
Duration: 9:14
September 1, 2010

Dana Reason Trio: Bellingham, Washington July 24, 2010

by Michael Boyce
August 29, 2010

Dana Reason TrioThe Amadeus ProjectBellingham, WashingtonJuly 24, 2010 The Dana Reason Trio's recent Angle of Vision Tour performance in Bellingham, Washington consisted mostly of new material, which they were preparing to record a couple of days later at Wild Rose Artists' Studio in Oregon. Dana Reason has an ...

Dreyfus Records: Crossing Continents with Music

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 26, 2010

Music, at its best, has the ability to reach across boundaries of nationality, gender and age. If there's a message in music, it's about communication, and about getting to the essence of everything: the beating pulse of a human heart. In an increasingly commercial market, where it has become more important to make music that opens ...

Third Annual Double Bass Summit Live At Dizzy's

by Robert Bush
August 12, 2010

San Diego Double Bass Summit Dizzy's San Diego, California July 25, 2010 The greater San Diego area has long been deep in double bass talent, eight of whom were on stage at Dizzy's for the third annual bass summit. Organized and emceed by Rob Thorsen, (who had to manage on ...

Retta Christie: Retta Christie with David Evans and Dave Frishberg

by C. Michael Bailey
August 4, 2010

Many saxophonists also double on clarinet, some notable examples being Lester Young, Art Pepper and Phil Woods, as well as the converse in Eddie Daniels, Don Byron, and Victor Goines. The two reeds complement one another by informing the performance of a player talented enough to play both. Young, who played a vibrato-less tenor with perfect ...

Rasmus Ehlers featuring George Garzone: As Played by Ear

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 2, 2010

There are certain constellations which seem to bring out the best in an already accomplished musician. Just think of the great rhythm sections of Art Pepper, John Coltrane and Miles Davis, and it's evident that individual mastery isn't all that is required to make magic. A superior sense of group interplay is also needed to aspire ...