Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section

by Art Pepper

Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1957
  • Label: Contemporary
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 21:57
  • Community rating: 4.55/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, Red Garland

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The stuff of legend: Art Pepper, having not played for weeks, was surprised with a last-minute session with Miles Davis's powerhouse rhythm section. He responded with a masterpiece of lyrical improvisation and raw emotion.

Genres

Descriptors: saxophone, classic, melodic, hushed, ballad

Tracklist

  1. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (5:27)
  2. Red Pepper Blues (3:40)
  3. Imagination (5:55)
  4. Waltz Me Blues (2:58)
  5. Straight Life (3:58)

Credits

  • Art Pepper - primary artist, alto saxophone, written-by
  • Paul Chambers - bass, written-by
  • "Philly" Joe Jones - drums
  • Roy DuNann - engineer
  • William Claxton - photography by [cover]
  • Cecil Charles - photography by [liner]
  • Red Garland - piano, written-by
  • Lester Koenig - producer, liner notes
  • Cole Porter - written-by
  • Jimmy Van Heusen And Johnny Burke - written-by
  • Tom Delaney - written-by
  • Chano Pozo - written-by
  • Don Raye - written-by
  • Gene DePaul - written-by
  • Dizzy Gillespie - written-by

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