ART PEPPER “Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section” Contemporary 1984 VG+
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ART PEPPER “Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section” Contemporary Prestige 1984 VG+ Vinyl
This is the 1984 pressing of ART PEPPER’s “Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section” on Contemporary Records – S7532.
1984 All Analog beauty!
VINYL has excellent gloss. Music signal is strong, clean, non-distorted. VG+/NM. Labels are clean with zero spindle marks. Looks virtually unplayed. Records photographed prior to cleaning. See photos.
Jacket is VG+. Spine and seams solid. A couple wrinkles, including corner. Back jacket is clean. Faint ringwear. Corners may be worn. See photos.
Joining the Miles Davis rhythm section of pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones made the transformation all that more illuminating. It's a classic east meets west, cool plus hot but never lukewarm combination that provides many bright moments for the quartet during this exceptional date from that great year in music, 1957. A bit of a flip, loosened but precise interpretation of the melody on "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" gets the ball rolling, followed by a "Bags Groove" parallel with "Red Pepper Blues," and a delicate, atypical treatment of "Imagination." A compositional collaboration of Pepper and Chambers on the quick "Waltz Me Blues" and hard-edged, running-as-fast-as-he-can take of "Straight Life" really sets the gears whirring. Philly Joe Jones is a great bop drummer, no doubt, one of the all-time greats with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach.
Though Art Pepper played with many a potent trio, this one inspires him to the maximum, and certainly makes for one of his most substantive recordings after his initial incarcerations, and before his second major slip into the deep abyss of drug addiction.
All records cleaned on ProJect VCS vacuum and/or Audio Desk System Glass ultrasonic record cleaner. Records photographed prior to cleaning.
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