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Meets Rhythm+1 |  | Artist: Art Pepper
Label: Jvc Japan
Category: Music
Buy New: $27.98
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 906434
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 4988002491681
ASIN: B000AMZ0WG
Release Date: September 22, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To - Art Pepper, Porter, Cole | | • | Red Pepper Blues - Art Pepper, Garland, Red | | • | Imagination - Art Pepper, Burke, J. | | • | Waltz Me Blues - Art Pepper, Chambers, P. | | • | Straight Life - Art Pepper, Pepper, Art | | • | Jazz Me Blues - Art Pepper, Delany, Tom | | • | Tin Tin Deo - Art Pepper, Pozu, Chano | | • | Star Eyes - Art Pepper, De Paul, Gene | | • | Birks Works - Art Pepper, Gillespie, Dizzy | | • | The Man I Love [*] - Art Pepper, Gershwin, George |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Japanese limited edition issue of the album classic in a deluxe, miniaturized LP sleeve replica of the original vinyl album artwork.
Album Details
Part of the 'masters of Jazz: The History Series 1949-1969'. 20 Bit Digitally Remastered.
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| Customer Reviews:
A Most Welcome Re-release of a Jazz Classic August 4, 2009
Karl W. Nehring (Ostrander, OH USA)
This is a jazz classic that I recommended many years ago when it first appeared on CD. Now JVC has given it the XRCD treatment and it is well worth recommending again, even at its higher price. Although alto saxophonist Art Pepper's life was a pitiable shambles when this session was booked (this is discussed in his autobiography, Straight Life, which I recommend highly to jazz fans), the combination of Pepper's energetic, melodic alto and the crack 1957 Miles Davis rhythm section (Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums) resulted in a jazz album for the ages.
Things start off with the Cole Porter tune, "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To," and immediately you know that Pepper has a way with a melody. The program continues with both originals and standards, special highlights being Pepper's signature tune, "Straight Life" (lots of irony in that title...) and the DePaul/Raye tune, "Star Eyes." The XRCD version closes with a tune not on the original CD, the Gershwins' "The Man I Love."
The sound is certainly not an impediment to musical enjoyment, but it is nothing to get excited about, either. The session was recorded and mixed in the old dual-mono approach that was common among jazz recordings of that time, with the inherent tradeoff that although spatially the recording sounds artificial, there is a nice immediacy to the sound, particularly the sound of Pepper's alto. Jazz fans are familiar with this sound, and the XRCD remastering wrings as much out of it as we are ever likely to get. The end result is a most welcome re-release of a jazz classic.
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