August 2011ĮAC extraction logfile from 20.
It’s still musically the ’60s, but now grown up.Įxact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. Pepper leads the way, effortlessly self-assured, through both original compositions and bebop mainstays, whilst his supporting trio – Cables, Mraz and Jones – are long experienced jazz craftsman, acutely sensitive to one another’s personal styles, wrapping the whole sound seamlessly together. Despite his self-destructive course and wasted years inside, when Art steps forward to play, it’s Art, pure and simple
Pepper has a uniquely sweet alto voice with its expressive timbre undimmed by time in the big house and decades of narcotic consumption. Recorded over three nights before a relaxed appreciative audience (no jackass stomping hooting or whistling, – apologies to those who welcome the more demonstrative audience ) this live set automatically has you turning the lights down low and joining the audience, a decanter positioned strategically within arms reach. I’ve long overlooked Pepper’s later work, there is so much good stuff in his prime, but when I stumbled on this lovely three box set recorded in 1977, and with one of my recent favourite bassists, George Mraz, and Mr Elvin Jones on drums, a second opinion was long overdue.
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