Artist > Art Pepper

1. Ophelia
2. Here's That Rainy Day
3. What Laurie Likes
4. Mr. Yohe
5. Lost Life
6. Samba Mom-Mom

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
Red Pepper Blues
Imagination
Waltz Me Blues
Straight Life
Jazz Me Blues
Tin Tin Deo
Star Eyes
Birks Works

Miss Who?
Mambo Koyama
Lover Come Back To Me
Patricia
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
Chris's Blues

Aretha
Long Gone
Once We Were Young
Foolin' Myself
Avalon
On A Slow Boat To China
Crazy She Calls Me
Broadway
Arrival

"…This is another Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray mastering job and it has outstanding sound. It's one of the choice titles from this fourth batch from the Fantasy 45 Series. Great music, great sound engineering and great mastering add up to a winner." Recording = 10/10; Music = 10/10 – Dennis D. Davis, Hi-Fi+, Issue 52

Considered by many to be Art Pepper's masterpiece, Intensity was recorded at the end of 1960, just before Pepper's lengthy incarceration. Pepper was beginning to incorporate into his playing some of the new freedom being pioneered into jazz by John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. The result was even greater daring in his playing style. On Intensity, Pepper tests the boundaries of conventional harmony while observing the traditions of melodic improvisation which he never abandoned.

1. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
2. I Love You
3. Come Rain or Come Shine
4. Long Ago (And Far Away)
5. Gone With the Wind
6. I Wished on the Moon
7. Too Close for Comfort
8. Five Points

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Art Pepper left a legacy of innumerable appearances on records, but his sessions for Contemporary always seemed to find him in the best company and in the best shape. Here his impassioned alto sax is appropriately applied to the compositions of six saxophonists, among them Benny Carter, Ornette Coleman, and Pepper himself. The presence of Jack Sheldon in a rare performance as a small-group trumpeter was another important factor in the album's success.

"The soundstage is spacious and the imaging precise. Pepper is almost in the room (separated by only the thinnest of curtains); you can practically see the air swirling through his alto sax. Pete Jolly's piano is a bit closed-off (as if the lid were shut), but Jimmy Bond's bass thumps and Frank Butler's drumset smacks and sizzles." – Fred Kaplan, The Absolute Sound, March 2006

"…Art Pepper's 'Las Cuevas De Mario' is a wonderfully subtle and convoluted track, built entirely on a subtly insistent rhythm motif that's set up by the bass and piano, before the drums start to add accent and prompts. Against the background foundation Pepper's sax and Jack Sheldon's trumpet play beautiful chorus and call and response melodies. Superbly understated, there's a lot going at once yet the instrumentation stays sparse. A longtime collectible record…" – Roy Gregory, Hi-Fi+, Issue 45

Track Listings
1. Smack Up
2. Las Cuevas De Mario
3. A Bit Of Basie
4. How Can You Lose
5. Maybe Next Year
6. Tears Inside

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Art Pepper The Way It Was! On Numbered Limited Edition 180g Vinyl LP

Art Pepper’s The Way it Was! was recorded for Contemporary between 1956-60 and the album is built around four previously un-released tunes pairing Pepper with the tenor of Warne Marsh. Filling out the program are three incredible tracks from Pepper's 1960 masterpieces Gettin' Together and Intensity as well as a cut from his 1957 release Meets the Rhythm Section. Supported by the likes of Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb and Red Garland, their workouts on the standards “The Man I Love,” “Autumn Leaves” and especially “The Way You Look Tonight” establish a brilliant east-coast meets west-coast summit. Art's creamy alto more than holds it's own with some of New York's bop-elite, resulting in a masterpiece in its own right. Now here on Mobile Fidelity Numbered Limited Edition 180g Vinyl!

Track Listing:

1. I Can't Believe You're In Love With Me
2. All The Things You Are
3. What's New
4. Tickle Toe
5. The Man I Love
6. Autumn Leaves
7. The Way You Look Tonight

Track Listing:

1. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
2. Red Pepper Blues
3. Imagination
4. Waltz Me Blues
5. Straight Life
6. Jazz Me Blues
7. Tin Tin Deo
8. Star Eyes
9. Birks Works