Art Pepper + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics
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By most standards a "little" big-band album, this set carried the bebop canon, such as it was, into the realm of California cool jazz, using Art Pepper's chops on milky tenor and sharp alto saxophones alongside plush arrangements from Marty Paich. There were key links on this session to the Miles Davis nonet's Birth of the Cool a decade earlier, which opened with the same Denzil Best tune. But Pepper offered himself up as a more acidic improviser, jagging solo structures despite the comparative clarity in his tone. Some of the most compelling moments come during Horace Silver's "Opus de Funk," which Pepper sp
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Manufacturer: Original Jazz Classics
Release date: 27 February 2001
EAN: 0693692624526 UPC: 693692624526
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Release date: 27 February 2001
EAN: 0693692624526 UPC: 693692624526