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  2. Art Pepper - Road Waltz

    in New Releases

    Posted · Edited by mspepper
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    This is a different version than the one played in Melbourne. I think it's better. But haven't listened to the Melbourne tracks in quite a while. A Melbourne fan, thinking he was doing Art a favor, slipped Art some pills which combined with whatever Art was drinking to affect the quality of the music not for the better. That's what I recall anyway and why I haven't listened. 

    On 5/15/2017 at 5:12 AM, soulpope said:

    Same here .... really do appreciate Laurie`s efforts regarding Art Pepper`s legacy, nevertheless issuing individual tracks is somehow like providing a taster without a following (full) meal ....

     Have released 9 complete albums on CD.  Find them at Amazon and CD Baby. http:bit.ly//BuyArtPepper.  There are even more cds and LPs offered by Omnivore. I offer the freebies and nearly-freebies (single tracks) as a FAVOR to fans and am kinda surprised to find folks complaining about them--looking into this gift horses mouth. These folks are entitled not to download them, of course. 

  5. Art Pepper/The Hollywood All-Stars

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

    I wonder how she got the rights for this recording? Didn't Concord get them when they bought OJC or did Galaxy just license them for their box?

    I always owned them. Licensed them to Fantasy/Concord. License is ended. LP

    4 hours ago, sidewinder said:

    The original issues on vinyl were for Atlas in Japan. I guess the rights must have always been vested with Art/Laurie and that Laurie did a deal for the box issue

    Didn't see this. That's what happened. LP

    2 hours ago, mjzee said:

    Interesting.  I was just listening to Art's The Discovery Sessions (Savoy), and thinking that the unison sections with Art and Jack Montrose sounded very Tristano-ish.  I followed the above link to the Art & Lee album, and there was a banner on that page for the Art & Warne session at Donte's.  So was Art, even peripherally, in the Tristano camp?

    No. At least he didn't think so and I never heard him mention Tristano. Think Tristano was too cerebral for a guy who grew up jamming on Central Ave. & started with Lee Young. Not to say Warne doesn't swing!  He does. The Art & Jack Montrose stuff which I love madly, esp the unison stuff, sounds like Dixieland to me. 

    4 hours ago, GA Russell said:

    Laurie is re-releasing this album for download for $10.

    "High Jingo" is free.

    http://artpepper.bandcamp.com/album/track-6-is-free-album-10

    Thanks! LP

  6. Art Pepper: Widow's Kitchen Cabinet membership

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted

    Sorry, the PDF is gigantic, couldn't post that & no way to make it downloadable from bandcamp without downloading the whole thing. And YES, the LAJI (from whom I got the tracks) has a limited number of (hard copy) giveaways for members: Here the list of players I posted on the bandcamp site: Archived material collected by The L.A. Jazz Institute. See the Notes for details (PDF included)

    Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Shelly Manne, Conte candoli, Bill Russo, Warne Marsh, Ronnie Ball, Ben Tucker, Gary Frommer, Carl Perkins, Frank Capp, Al Porcino, Jack Sheldon, Med Flory, Russ Freeman, Joe Mondragon, Mel Lewis, Paul Chambers, Wynton Kelly, Pete Jolly, Dolo Coker, AND MORE

  7. May 16: Laurie Pepper - Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    Well worth a read if you want to find out even more about Art Peeper's amazing life, after reading Straight Life this gives a completely different perspective of the events in Arts life and for me its makes Art's music seem even more incredible when you read about the conditions it was recorded under.

    Laurie has done an amazing job with the book and its complete honesty may prove shocking to some people. The only thing I wish is that a bit more effort had been taken in reproducing the photos as their reproduction in the book is not great (maybe something that can be fixed in future editions)

    Sorry about the photos, folks. The reproductions REALLY distressed me when I first saw proofs; they looked like gray soup. So I punched them up. A lot. I was informed that to properly reproduce a black and white photo with a full range of tones you need to use a COLOR press. And coated paper. Which is too pricey for any of us. I researched it. I mean, do you want to pay $100 a copy? Didn't think so. The photos in the EBOOK look REALLY good, and some are in color. Check it out on Amazon. I think it's about $9, ditto iBooks, Nook, etc.

  8. May 16: Laurie Pepper - Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    Okay, okay. You're right, I'm too thin skinned. If I'm gonna say stuff like "Why I stuck…" and so on, I can expect to hear about it. Thanks for the baptism. I'm ready for my closeup, now. BTW, a facebook friend interviewed Art and me about a month before Straight Life was published, and he just posted this snippet about Art's hopes for reactions to THAT book. Much more sensible (and only he said it in less than a minute). http://blog.bobrosenbaum.com/private/85054390320/tumblr_n582watwtw1rom4l7

  11. Art Pepper - Neon Art

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Yes, yes, I appreciate all the folks who've wanted to make sure this is legit. It is. Totally. I'm not up to putting out vinyl, but my friends at Omnivore thought this would be a good idea, and I agreed. These are beautiful albums - to look at and to listen to. In about a year, I'll be releasing all three on cd (on Widow's Taste). L.P.

  12. Art Pepper Free download

    in Artists

    Posted

    Every month I post a new free (any format) download for Art Pepper fans. This month, I decided to to do something different. I'm also making the original sheet music available, with all quartet parts AND the separate re-written alto part (Art decided the original was too hard to play). It's all free, so go to Widow's Taste Blog.

  13. Art Pepper The Complete Pepper at Ronnie Scott's

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    Hi folks,

    The word "complete at Ronnie Scott's" is ridiculous for a such issue or reissue for some titles.

    Art Pepper played every day at Ronnie Scott from june 16 to june 29, 1980. I have all titles in more or less good quality. I guess that the project of Laurie Pepper is to issue all of them on CD.

    I think that the 7LP box set includes only the last 2 nights (june 28 & 29, 1980). In that case, the word complete is correct.

    Hi, all. Well, well. I'm planning on releasing the CD Box set in April/May of 2011. I'm only PLANNING to release the material professionally (and expertly) recorded by Mole, so my cd release will be the equivalent of this Pure Pleasure LP release and will contain only those two nights (mine might contain a little more of Art's talking between tunes). BUT if you want to send me copies of the stuff you have, of the preceding days, I'd love to hear it. I'd LOVE to have it. 'Cause I don't have it. —Laurie P

    Indeed!

    I have the two Mole Jazz LPs and would be delighted to have more material from those nights.

    I certainly would wait a little longer to have them on CD!

    April/May 2011, Laurie P

    Guess I'd be *very* happy with this, but then the price... also a CD version would be preferred.

    See my other posts about the date, etc.

    I hope this is an approved release and Laurie is getting something out of this.... :unsure: :unsure:

    Laurie can release the CD version. ;)

    Yes, it IS highly approved!! Laurie P

  14. Want (need) arcane Sidney Bechet Info

    in Discography

    Posted

    Thanks, friends. No wonder I couldn't find it. Wrong band!

    A guy named Scott at Mosaic Records researched it after I got in touch with Michael Cuscuna. He wrote to Cuscuna: "I think this person is getting Edmond Hall mixed up with Sidney Bechet. The YPR record she’s probably looking for is called “Jazz Band” and features Teddy Wilson, Ed Hall, Jimmy Crawford, Buck Clayton and Eddie Safranski. She can search and get a CDR at www.kiddierekordking.com."

    BTW, that site is WONDERFUL. I'm buying an mp3.

    L.

  15. Want (need) arcane Sidney Bechet Info

    in Discography

    Posted · Edited by mspepper

    I'm looking for some really arcane info about SIDNEY BECHET. When I was seven I had a record telling "the story of jazz" by the Young People's Record Club. On my windup victrola, I wore that thing OUT, dropping the needle again and again at the point where Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feet Warmers began to play. My question: What were they playing? Even if you have no idea (I said it was arcane info), if you can suggest some other places to ask this question I'd be so grateful.

    P.S. This would have been '47 or '48.

  16. Savvy Widows Leverage Jazz Legends' Legacies

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted · Edited by mspepper

    I don't think this article quite comes across the way it was intended.

    If Art Pepper HAD caused someone's death or injury in an episode of drug-induced negligence, we would not be congratulating his wife for keeping his intellectual property wealth off the table in a lawsuit by the victim's family.

    I bet, for the average reader, long copyright terms mean money for nothing for the heirs of the owners of companies that bought out earlier defunct companies that ripped off artists. Let artists provide for their families with real wealth handed down, and let the heirs create on their own.

    Gotta chime in. I was Art's manager, ran his publishing company (which I created), and I affiliated him with BMI. I worked with him on the book, Straight Life, and that helped resuscitate his career (and incidentally, made more of his music available to more people). I handled his contracts and He relied on me 24/7. I took care of him. Like many artists, Art had some serious (and lifelong) mental problems. If I could have persuaded the State of California to confiscate his driver's license, I would have done it. I did try.

    Before he died Art told me that he was glad to be leaving me "well provided for." Because I would be his widow, and he was an oldfashioned guy.

    You ask good questions, "It Should Be..." Would I have been at fault, and ought I to have been punished if he HAD hurt somebody? When there was nothing I could do to prevent it?

    Or are the record companies and publishing companies of old the only ones who should have be permitted to benefit from the work of artists and musicians? Because if there's no-one to inherit, that's who winds up with everything.

    And should wives not benefit from the work of their husbands? No matter what that work is? And, shouldn't husbands benefit vice versa? Isn't marriage a partnership? And what about the kids? Should no one ever inherit anything on the basis of familial or marital ties? I'm not being snide, those are really good questions. Andrew Carnegie, I believe, left everything to his projects and charities. But speaking for myself, I'm grateful everyday that my husband left me with a catalog of tunes and recordings (that lots of people love and can't get enough of.) And I'm more grateful than I can say that he never hurt anyone besides himself.

    -- Laurie

  18. ART PEPPER at Stuttgart

    in New Releases

  20. Art Pepper at Stuttgart

    in Artists

    Posted

    Hello, all!

    I'm about to release the fifth album (2 disc set) in the Unreleased Art Pepper series on Widow's Taste.

    It includes both sets of the concert in Stuttgart on May 25th, 1981. The music is sublime. I was there, but my memory bank is empty. I have no photos of this concert featuring Milcho Leviev, Bob Magnusson, Carl Burnett.

    It sounds like a big concert hall. Was anybody there? Does anybody know where the concert was held? Any memories whatsoever?post-11602-12693760604_thumb.jpg

  21. New Art Pepper coming out soon.

    in New Releases

    Posted

    It was a bit harsh.... particularly... the "Ms. Pepper lobbies hard for the ’70s as his prime period, when he had finally made it through jail, drugs and rehab, and found a synthesis of his past styles."

    I LOVE his 70's stuff... I don't think I need anyone to lobby me on that... <_<

    A brief review of this in today's "N, Y. Times."

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/arts/music/26play.html

    Keep up the wonderful work Laurie... I look forward to the next (hopefully 2CD) set...!

    Thanks for coming to my defense! Harsh smarsh, I'm in the Times, and it was, on the scale of things, a good review.

    BTW, I still insist that emphasis of this set is on history rather than unreleased. But for anyone interested in amount of new material in proportion to previously released, see attachment. Turns I was right about 1/3 unreleased.

    released__unreleased.pdf

  23. New Art Pepper coming out soon.

    in New Releases

    Posted

    Hi Laurie...

    I know you just got done with this mammoth task... but I'm wondering... When do you think Vol. 5 will be out? And will it be another 2CD live set??

    thanks for everything you are doing... You've inspired me to add to my Art collection!!!

    Thanks so much to you. It's people like you who keep me going.

    Next will probably be a one or two disc live set.

    I've got a stunning video from a festival in Kongsberg in Sweden? and the music is monumental. Seriously. I'm trying to get hold of a guy named Gert Avelin who produced it.

    Also, I've got some super tracks from a gig in Stuttgart, and just got some tracks I'm told are marvelous from Adelaide. Haven't heard them yet.

    Seems like I usually put out the new ones in May, June. I think it'll be a single cd, tho. I wiped myself out financially (temporarily I hope) with this one.

    Kongsberg is in Norway. :) This must have been from the Kongsberg Jazz Festival. Could it be this concert?

    Art Pepper Quartet

    Art Pepper (as), Milcho Leviev (p), Tony Dumas (b), Carl Burnett (dms)

    June 1980 - Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Kongsberg

    Here is a link to information on a short film from the festival that year:

    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natl...16/default.html

    This festival is very much still going strong:

    http://www.kongsberg-jazzfestival.no/sider...mal=nyhetsliste

    Thanks, THANKS. Yes, that's the one. The 30 minute film included a little bit of the interview with Art and a bit of performance. But there was a full set of Art with that band and with commentary that was aired on Swedish TV. I have it on DVD but it's not a good copy and much of the music is interrupted by talking. I'm hoping to get hold of a better copy of that longer film in better condition.

    post-11602-1248509371_thumb.jpg

  24. New Art Pepper coming out soon.

    in New Releases

    Posted

    Hi Laurie...

    I know you just got done with this mammoth task... but I'm wondering... When do you think Vol. 5 will be out? And will it be another 2CD live set??

    thanks for everything you are doing... You've inspired me to add to my Art collection!!!

    Thanks so much to you. It's people like you who keep me going.

    Next will probably be a one or two disc live set.

    I've got a stunning video from a festival in Kongsberg in Sweden? and the music is monumental. Seriously. I'm trying to get hold of a guy named Gert Avelin who produced it.

    Also, I've got some super tracks from a gig in Stuttgart, and just got some tracks I'm told are marvelous from Adelaide. Haven't heard them yet.

    Seems like I usually put out the new ones in May, June. I think it'll be a single cd, tho. I wiped myself out financially (temporarily I hope) with this one.

  25. New Art Pepper coming out soon.

    in New Releases

    Posted

    that is amazing information which increases my already exteremly high respect for Art Pepper

    im espically pleased to learn Art appriciated the Beach Boys.

    did art enjoy classical music at all too? did you guys ever go to the symphony or ballet?

    One night coming home from a gig, we had the classical station on in the car. Art insisted on sitting in the driveway until the song was over. It was so beautiful Art had to know what it was. It was Kathleen Ferrier singing Brahms's Alto Rhapsody.

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