Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: EN6CD9046
- Format: CD
- UPC: 823564659527
- Street Date: 09/18/15
- PreBook Date: 08/14/15
- Label: Enlightenment »
- Genre: Jazz
- Run Time: 451 mins
- Number of Discs: 6
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2015
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: US,CA
- Language: English
Product Assets
Art Pepper - 12 Classic Albums: 1954-1962
Twelve albums from Pepper's finest era remastered and over six discs
- List Price: $19.99
- Your Price: $19.99
- In Stock: -1
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Art Pepper became known as one of the leading alto-saxophone and clarinet players of the 1950s, voted only second to Charlie Parker as Best Alto Sax player in 'Down Beat' magazine's readers poll of 1952. He expressed early musical interest and talent, and began lessons soon thereafter. He was playing clarinet at nine, switched to alto saxophone at 13, and began jamming on Central Avenue, the black nightclub district of LA. At 17 he began playing professionally with Benny Carter and then became part of the Stan Kenton Orchestra. By the early 1950s, along with Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan and Shelly Manne, perhaps due more to geography than playing style, Pepper became associated with the West Coast Jazz movement, as contrasted with the East Coast Jazz associated with the likes of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. During the 50s Pepper produced a number of the best regarded jazz albums of the decade, among them Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, Art Pepper + Eleven - Modern Jazz Classics, Gettin' Together, and Smack Up. His career however was repeatedly interrupted by a number of stints in jail, a result of incidents of petty crime due largely to his ongoing heroin addiction. But Art was to have several memorable and productive "comebacks" following such unfortunate and unwanted intervals. Remarkably, his substance abuse and legal travails did not affect the quality of his recordings, which maintained a high level of musicianship throughout his career. His last comeback saw Pepper becoming a member of Buddy Rich's Big Band during 1968 and 1969. In the mid-1970s and early 1980s he toured Europe and Japan with his own groups and recorded dozens more albums, mostly for Fantasy Records. Pepper sadly died of a cerebral haemorrhage in LA on June 15th, 1982, at the age of 56. He is interred in the Abbey of the Psalms Mausoleum in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood.
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