Marty Paich (1925-1995)

[Durium]

MARTY PAICH

The record shops, if you can find one, are glutted with cheap reissues from the 1950s and 1960s - Jazz is in the sale ....... It feels like fight a losing battle, although jazz fans can grasp their chances.

I bought a cheap prized Art Pepper box in which I found a reissue of the Marty Paich Quartet ( featuring Art Pepper), which originally was released on Tampa. The sound of Art Pepper fascinated me, but I became interested in his piano player Marty Paich, whose name is closely involved in West Coast jazz albums, like the great Art Pepper + Eleven "Modern Jazz Classic".

Marty Paich: Creator of the West Coast sound

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[mjzee]

Marty Paich did string and horn arrangements on Spirit's first album:

[medjuck]

He used to conduct the orchestra for film composer James Newton Howard. I joked with him at one session about how much his old albums were going for in collectors' circles. He said he didn't have many of them himself.

Edited June 23, 2013 by medjuck

[Teasing the Korean]

I had some cheapo 80s vinyl reissues of his (non-Art Pepper) 50s or early 60s sessions. I swear, the cover art looked like it was done by precocious 15-year-old girl into unicorns.

The albums were not very satisfying from either a jazz or space age bachelor pad perspective, and I unloaded them.

i was happy to have those album covers out of my life.

[Big Beat Steve]

I had some cheapo 80s vinyl reissues of his (non-Art Pepper) 50s or early 60s sessions. I swear, the cover art looked like it was done by precocious 15-year-old girl into unicorns.

The albums were not very satisfying from either a jazz or space age bachelor pad perspective, and I unloaded them.

i was happy to have those album covers out of my life.

Sounds like these covers would have qualified for this thread:

I have a faint idea of which LPs you are talking about. Pretty out of tune indeed.