New Art Pepper releases from Laurie Pepper

[GA Russell]

Episode 41

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-one-2

[GA Russell]

Episode 43

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-three-2

[GA Russell]

Episode 44

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-four

*****

Episode 42!!!

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-42

[GA Russell]

Episode 45

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-five-2

[GA Russell]

In celebration of Art Pepper's 100th birthday, we have a free track.

Miss Who, from Geneva 1980

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/album/art-pepper-is-100-freebie-full-track-from-geneva-1980

[GA Russell]

Episode 46

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-six-2

[GA Russell]

Episode 47

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-seven-2

[GA Russell]

Red Car:  Parnell's 1981

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/freebie-red-car-parnells-1981-neon-art

 

[GA Russell]

Episode 48

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-eight-3

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Episode 49

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-nine-2

[GA Russell]

Surf Ride has recently been re-mastered.

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/album/surf-ride-remastered-2025

[GA Russell]

Here's That Rainy Day - free

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/free-for-thanksgiving-beauty-heres-that-rainy-day

[GA Russell]

Episode 51

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-51

[GA Russell]

Episode 52

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-fifty-two-2

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Art:  Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman 

Episode 8

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/episode-8-of-art-why-i-stuck-with-a-junkie-jazzman

[GA Russell]

Episode 53

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-53-the-caper

[GA Russell]

Cherokee

("a Valentine Freebie")

From 1975, with Blue Mitchell and Lou Levy.

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/valentine-freebie-all-month

[GA Russell]

Art:  Episode 10

https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/art-episode-10-2

[Peter]

Art Pepper 1959 Live at the Cellar. 4 cds. Release date 02/20/26. 

https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/live-at-the-cellar/

[Kevin Bresnahan]

9 hours ago, Peter said:

Art Pepper 1959 Live at the Cellar. 4 cds. Release date 02/20/26. 

https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/live-at-the-cellar/

I think I'd like to hear some samples before buying this one. The rhythm section is rather unknown outside Vancouver.

[Niko]

a lot (or all) of the set is on youtube... 

[Dub Modal]

52 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I think I'd like to hear some samples before buying this one. The rhythm section is rather unknown outside Vancouver.

Some discussion here as well:

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

15 minutes ago, Niko said:

a lot (or all) of the set is on youtube... 

Thanks for this. i looked on Laurie's bandcamp page but not YouTube.

I think I can safely pass on this one. I have a lot of Laurie's previous releases and I don't find myself pulling them off the shelf very much any more.

[Niko]

streaming it myself now... I like it much better than I expected, recording quality is not amazing in general but Art is captured really well... like: there are not many Charlie Parker bootlegs with this fidelity... and these days I am much more interested in early or middle Pepper than in late Pepper... 

[Dub Modal]

The live Pepper from '59 is really intriguing. Are there any other live shows from him available from this time? He's playing well on these despite the rhythm section. 

[Niko]

Not that I am aware of, there are various things from the early 50s (e.g. on Xanadu) but I wouldn't know of other live Pepper from the late 50s when he recorded his famous Contemporary albums

[Niko]

played a bit more of it and read up on the sidemen... apparently pianist Chris Gage was some sort of unrecorded local hero

https://www.jazzstreetvancouver.ca/artists/44/

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chris-gage-emc

and even though some tapes featuring him have appeared before (e.g. an archival release with Fraser McPherson), four CDs with Art Pepper is fairly massive for his legacy... that said, while all four players are clearly audible, the focus was apparently on capturing Pepper well - which worked out nicely...