Historic 4 hours of previously unissued 1959 live Art Pepper recorded at Vancouver, Canada’s legendary jazz club The Cellar.
The release of Art Pepper’s Everything Happens To Me: 1959 – Live at the Cellar is the stuff music archivists can only dream of finding. Recordings by an historic and important jazz artist, at a storied venue, at a time when the artist was making some of their most essential work. In this case, catching Pepper on tape at The Cellar in 1959 finds him in the midst of creating and straddling landmark releases like, Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section (1957), Modern Art (1957), Art Pepper + Eleven (1959) and Gettin’ Together (1960). Though Pepper was going through a down time, Vancouver, Canada’s jazz club, The Cellar was in full swing…
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Including sessions recorded by Art Pepper for Savoy from 1952-54 Surf Ride was originally released in 1956. Featuring three groups of players, the album collects twelve, mostly Pepper composed, cuts including “Holiday Flight” – with Pepper’s playing throughout on superior form. This new edition of the album is released as part of the Original Jazz Classics Series on 180-gram vinyl pressed at RTI with all-analog mastering from the original tapes at Cohearent Audio and a Stoughton Tip-On Jacket.
The music on this Savoy LP is quite brilliant, but the packaging leaves something to be desired. The recording dates are all incorrect and there are only 12 performances included (around 37 minutes). There are quartet outings with either Russ Freeman or Hampton Hawes on piano and tracks…
Between 1980 and 1982, Art Pepper played with Bulgarian pianist Milcho Leviev alongside bassist Tony Dumas and drummer Carl Burnett. Leviev was a music director and pianist with Don Ellis and spent seven years with Billy Cobham. This group backed Pepper on his very first European tour. They initially played a triumphant fortnight stand in London at Ronnie Scott’s. (Those gigs were released in the box set Blues for the Fisherman, in 2010.) An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert picks up the afternoon after the Scott’s residency ended at 1:30 a.m. — the quartet performed just 123 hours later as the closing act at Norway’s Konigsberg Jazz Festival. Laurie Pepper, Art’s widow and curator, teamed with Zev Feldman, the Kongsberg Jazz Festival archives,…