Ever since Artie Shaw and Charlie Parker, most jazz musicians have had a desire to record at least once in their lives with strings, often considering it a prestigious honor. Altoist Art Pepper finally had his chance on this album and fortunately the string arrangements (by Bill Holman and Jimmy Bond) do not weigh down the proceedings. Pepper sounds quite inspired performing seven strong compositions highlighted by Hoagy Carmichael's "Winter Moon," "When the Sun Comes Out" and a clarinet feature on "Blues in the Night." This material (plus four alternate takes and two other songs from the same sessions) is included in the massive Art Pepper Galaxy box set.
One of the more disturbing films of the late 1970's was “The Eyes Of Laura Mars.” No better choice than Art Pepper could be imagined. He brings a sense of the sophistication mixed with an underlying menace which is so much a part of this at times heavily graphic film.
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A man sits alone in a bus shelter. He doesn’t care if a bus comes or goes. He just sits and stares with a blank look on his face, his pain so intense that its only now very self evident in his looks and his posture. His unshaven face and eyes–eyes that are red from too much crying because the pain is branded deep into his soul. He has truly lost everything dear to him. His beloved has left him
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“That’s Love” is a low down blues, played with much angularity but great, natural feeling for the blues by Art Pepper. A fellow veteran of the 1950's Stan Kenton Orchestra, Howard Roberts, plays a lean, mean blues full of controlled passion. Art Pepper plays with increasing passion, making his alto sax sing words that cannot be expressed.
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This icy song by Hoagy Carmichael gets an equally chilling performance from Art Pepper. The great Bill Holman writes stinging icycles in the strings that emphasize the bleakness of the song.
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