The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions
Art Pepper
"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.
TRACKLISTING
DISC ONE
- 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
DISC TWO
- 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 (Instrumental)
- 9. Blues For Heard
DISC THREE
- 1. Spoken Introduction
- 2. Over The Rainbow
- 3. Spoken Introduction
- 4. The Trip
- 5. Blues For Les
- 6. A Night In Tunisia
DISC FOUR
- 1. 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
DISC FIVE
- 1. Blues For Heard
- 2. Anthropology
- 3. These Foolish Things
- 4. For Freddie
- 5. Blues For Heard
DISC SIX
- 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
DISC SEVEN
- 1. 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
DISC EIGHT
- 1. Spoken Introduction
- 2. My Friend John
- 3. Introduction
- 4. More For Les
- 5. Cherokee
- 6. Blues For Heard
DISC NINE
- 1. For Freddie
- 2. More For Les
- 3. Caravan
- 4. Labyrinth
- 5. My Friend John
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