Complete Village Vanguard Sessions (9-CD Box Set)

Q: 3 Stars - Good - "...he had a really rare ability to convey emotion through his saxophone...the intensity of his playing is almost unbearable at times..."

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CD Details

Number of Discs: 9
Released: March 31, 1995
Originally Released: 1995
Label: Contemporary

Description by OLDIES.com:

"You have come to see history made," Art Pepper informs the audience as this session begins. The promise came from his artist's heart, and he kept it. In July of 1977 at the Village Vanguard, with a dream band (George Cables, George Mraz, and Elvin Jones), Art gave us these three nights of pivotal, swinging, disturbing, absolutely beautiful jazz. He was 51 years old. He was at the outset of his last and best comeback, and this was an emotionally loaded debut for him--as a bandleader in the Big Apple and as a leader of a live recording date. Four very successful albums were the result.

Now, in this box (which includes 24 previously unreleased tracks), we have the whole thing for the first time, intact in every way, chronological and unedited. Art's onstage talk and Laurie Pepper's written reminiscence put his remarkable performance in context and the listener in the picture--as dramatic a picture as any in Art's eventful life.

Entertainment Reviews:

Q - 12/95, p.174

3 Stars - Good - "...he had a really rare ability to convey emotion through his saxophone...the intensity of his playing is almost unbearable at times..."

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.Spoken Introduction
2.Blues For Heard
3.Spoken Introduction
4.Scrapple From The Apple
5.Spoken Introduction
6.But Beautiful
7.Spoken Introduction
8.My Friend John
9.Spoken Introduction
10.Cherokee
11.Blues For Heard

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Spoken Introduction
2.For Freddie
3.Spoken Introduction
4.Valse Triste
5.Spoken Introduction
6.Live At The Vanguard
7.Spoken Introduction
8.Caravan
9.Blues For Heard

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.Spoken Introduction
2.Over The Rainbow
3.Spoken Introduction
4.The Trip
5.Blues For Les
6.A Night In Tunisia

Tracks on Disc 4:

1.Spoken Introduction
2.No Limit
3.Spoken Introduction
4.Valse Triste
5.Spoken Introduction
6.My Friend John
7.Spoken Introduction
8.You Go To My Head
9.Cherokee
10.Blues For Heard

Tracks on Disc 5:

1.Count-Off / Blues For Heard
2.Anthropology
3.These Foolish Things
4.For Freddie
5.Blues For Heard

Tracks on Disc 6:

1.Spoken Introduction
2.Las Cuevas De Mario
3.Spoken Introduction
4.Stella By Starlight
5.Spoken Introduction
6.Goodbye
7.Spoken Introduction
8.Vanguard Max
9.Blues For Heard

Tracks on Disc 7:

1.Count Off / Vanguard Max
2.Spoken Introduction
3.Las Cuevas De Mario
4.Spoken Introduction
5.Goodbye
6.Spoken Introduction
7.For Freddie
8.Blues For Heard

Tracks on Disc 8:

1.Announcement And False Start
2.My Friend John
3.Spoken Introduction
4.More For Les
5.Cherokee
6.Blues For Heard

Tracks on Disc 9:

1.Count-Off / For Freddie
2.More For Les
3.Caravan
4.Labyrinth
5.My Friend John