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1957 studio anthology past Art Pepper

Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Department
Studio album by Art Pepper
Released	1957 (1957)
Recorded	January xix, 1957
Genre	Jazz
Length	43:38
Characterization	Contemporary/Original Jazz Classics
Producer	Lester Koenig
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Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Department is a 1957 jazz album past saxophonist Art Pepper with Cerise Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, who were the rhythm section for Miles Davis'due south quintet at the fourth dimension. The anthology is considered a milestone in Pepper's career.^{[i] [ii]}

Recording [edit]

According to Pepper, the album was recorded under enormous force per unit area, as he first learned of the recording session the morning he was due in the studio, and he had never met the other musicians, all of whom he profoundly admired.^{[1] [3] : 192–195} He was playing on an instrument in a bad state of repair, and was suffering from a drug trouble.^{[iii] : 192–195} Purportedly, Pepper had not played the saxophone for some time, either for two weeks (according to the liner notes), or half dozen months (co-ordinate to Pepper's autobiography Straight Life).^{[3] : 192–195} All the same, the discography in Straight Life indicates that Pepper had recorded many sessions in the previous weeks, including one five days earlier.^{[iii] : 524–525}

Reception [edit]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[iv]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	(Cadre Collection) [five] [6]
The All Music Guide	[1]
The Rolling Rock Jazz Record Guide	[7]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[viii]
Jazzwise	[ix]

Michael One thousand. Nastos of AllMusic called the recording "a classic eastward meets west, cool plus hot but never lukewarm combination that provides many bright moments for the quartet during this exceptional date from that swell year in music, 1957."^[iv]

Brian Morton and Richard Cook, writing for The Penguin Jazz Guide (tenth ed.), described Meets the Rhythm Section as "a poetic, burning appointment, with all four men playing above themselves…. Between them, they'd delivered a masterpiece."^[ten] In previous Penguin Guide editions, the anthology was included in the "Core Collection," and received a four-star rating (of a possible four stars).^{[5] [half-dozen]}

Becky Byrkit, writing for AllMusic, accounted the anthology "a diamond of recorded jazz history."^[1]

The New York Times critic Ben Ratliff described Meets the Rhythm Section as "an honest tape; if y'all believe the story of its making, you'd accept to conclude that Pepper, unprepared and unarmored, was forced to pull the music out of himself, since tepid run-throughs and stock licks weren't going to work in such exalted company."^[xi]

Runway listing [edit]

1. "You'd Be So Nice to Come up Home To" (Cole Porter) – 5:25
2. "Red Pepper Blues" (Art Pepper, Carmine Garland) – 3:37
3. "Imagination" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Shush) – five:52
4. "Waltz Me Blues" (Art Pepper, Paul Chambers) – 2:56
5. "Directly Life" (Art Pepper) – iii:59
6. "Jazz Me Blues" (Tom Delaney) – iv:47
7. "Tin Tin can Deo" (Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo) – 7:42
8. "Star Optics" (Cistron de Paul, Don Raye) – v:12
9. "Birks' Works" (Light-headed Gillespie) – 4:17
10. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:36 [added to the remastered recording in 2002]

(Recorded on January 19, 1957 at Contemporary'southward Studios, Los Angeles.)

Personnel [edit]

• Fine art Pepper - alto saxophone
• Red Garland - piano
• Paul Chambers - bass
• Philly Joe Jones - drums

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Byrkit, Becky (2001). Vladimir Bogdanov; Chris Woodstra; Stephen Thomas Erlewine (eds.). The All Music Guide. AllMusic (fourth ed.). p. 1358. ISBN0879306270 . Retrieved 20 February 2015.
2. ^ Yanow, Scott (2000). Bebop. Miller Freeman. p. 327. ISBN0879306084 . Retrieved 20 February 2015.
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Pepper, Art; Laurie Pepper (1994) [1979]. Directly Life: The Story of Art Pepper. Schirmer. ISBN0306805588 . Retrieved twenty February 2015.
4. ^ ^{a b} Nastos, Michael G.. Fine art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section at AllMusic
5. ^ ^{a b} Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (eighth ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1043. ISBN0-1410-2327-nine.
6. ^ ^{a b} Melt, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1142. ISBN978-0-14-103401-0.
7. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Tape Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 160. ISBN0-394-72643-X.
8. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0195313734.
9. ^ "ART PEPPER – MEETS THE RHYTHM Department ★★★★★". Jazzwise. 27 August 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
10. ^ Morton, Brian; Richard Melt (2010) [1992]. The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 All-time Albums. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (10th ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 200–201. ISBN978-0-14-104831-4.
11. ^ Ratliff, Ben (2002). "47. Art PEPPER: Art Pepper meets The Rhythm Department". The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Nearly Of import Recordings . Times Books. pp. 121–123. ISBN0805070680 . Retrieved xx February 2015.

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