Art Pepper

ALBUM

Una raccolta completa degli album di Art Pepper, dalle prime produzioni ai successi più recenti.

Intensity - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Intensity

Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series / Remastered 2024
  • Vinile
Gettin' Together - Art Pepper, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers

Art Pepper, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers

Gettin' Together

Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series / Remastered 2024
  • Vinile
The Best Of Art Pepper - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

The Best Of Art Pepper

  • Digitale
+ Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

+ Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics

Contemporary Records 70th Anniversary Series
  • Vinile
The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions

  • Digitale
Saturday Night At Village Vanguard - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Saturday Night At Village Vanguard

  • Digitale
San Francisco Samba: Live At Keystone Korner - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

San Francisco Samba: Live At Keystone Korner

  • Digitale
Living Legend - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Living Legend

  • Digitale
The Trip - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

The Trip

  • Digitale
No Limit - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

No Limit

  • Digitale
Thursday Night At Village Vanguard - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Thursday Night At Village Vanguard

  • Digitale
Friday Night At Village Vanguard - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Friday Night At Village Vanguard

  • Digitale
Art Pepper With Warne Marsh - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Art Pepper With Warne Marsh

  • Digitale
Gettin' Together! - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Gettin' Together!

  • Digitale
Ballads By Five - Art Pepper, John Klemmer, Johnny Griffin

Art Pepper, John Klemmer, Johnny Griffin

Ballads By Five

  • Digitale
Renascence - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Renascence

Live At The Bach Dancing And Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay, CA / September 28, 1975
  • Digitale
The Artistry Of Pepper - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

The Artistry Of Pepper

  • Digitale
The Art Of Pepper - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

The Art Of Pepper

  • Digitale
The Capitol Vaults Jazz Series - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

The Capitol Vaults Jazz Series

  • Digitale
Winter Moon - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Winter Moon

Remastered
  • Digitale
The Art Of The Ballad - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

The Art Of The Ballad

  • Digitale
Modern Jazz Classics - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Modern Jazz Classics

Remastered
  • Digitale
Picture Of Heath - Chet Baker, Art Pepper

Chet Baker, Art Pepper

Picture Of Heath

  • Vinile
  • Digitale
The Route - Chet Baker, Art Pepper

Chet Baker, Art Pepper

The Route

  • Digitale
Modern Art - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Modern Art

  • Vinile
  • Digitale
The Return Of Art Pepper - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

The Return Of Art Pepper

  • Digitale

SINGOLI

I singoli più rappresentativi di Art Pepper, tra successi storici e nuove uscite.

Savoy Jazz Super EP: Art Pepper - Art Pepper

Art Pepper

Savoy Jazz Super EP: Art Pepper

  • Digitale

BIOGRAFIA



There was nothing halfway about alto saxophonist Art Pepper (1925-82), which was both a blessing for his music and a significant burden for his day-to-day life. He claimed to have never studied or practiced his horn; disdained inevitable comparisons with Charlie Parker yet embraced the later expressive discoveries of John Coltrane in advance of most of the jazz world; and became labeled an icon of a supposedly cool jazz scene by reason of geography while in fact playing some of the most intense and boiling music of anyone in his lifetime. And, thanks to a drug habit that forced his absence from the music business, he managed to record only twice between 1961 and 1975.

Pepper was undeniably a West Coast jazzman. As a native of Gardena, California, he had more claim to the label than many Eastern and Midwest players who came to the Los Angeles area and played in the less overtly emotional manner that came to define the style. His solo approach was always passionate, from early recordings made with Stan Kenton’s orchestra during his years with the band (1943 and 1946-52) and in jam sessions on L.A.’s Central Avenue. Records and club work with Shorty Rogers and his Giants beginning in 1951 provided more room for his solo skills, and by 1952 he began cutting more intimate and open quartet and quintet sessions under his own name. By this time he had already developed a dependence on alcohol, pills, and heroin that led to an erratic lifestyle and (in 1952) the first of several arrests and incarcerations. For the remainder of the decade, Pepper alternated stretches in what he would later refer to as "la pinta" (the joint) with bursts of recording activity. Two of these latter occasions found him teaming productively with Miles Davis’s rhythm sections of the time; he would always catch the appearances of the Davis band in Los Angeles, particularly for the transcendent tenor solos of the man he came to admire greatly, John Coltrane.

While Coltrane’s example moved Pepper to become even more direct and searing in his own improvisations, documentation of this evolution is scarce. Yet another arrest in 1961 and the subsequent sentence to San Quentin effectively ended Pepper’s career for 15 years. There was a brief stint playing tenor in the Buddy Rich big band in 1968, and a stay in the Synanon drug facility at around that time; but Pepper did not sufficiently control his demons for the purpose of putting his career on track until the mid-Seventies. It was then that his renewed recording career (in 1975) and first appearances on the East Coast and in Japan (’77) brought him the acclaim of a living legend. Pepper never fully conquered his demons, even after publication of his brutal autobiography Straight Life in 1979 and subsequent documentary films; but he was able to realize poll victories and reverent reviews as well as ambitious projects with string orchestras and intimate duets with his favorite accompanist, pianist George Cables.

Photo & bio courtesy of Concord Music Group

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