Art Pepper + Eleven

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By most standards a "little" big-band album, this set carried the bebop canon, such as it was, into the realm of California cool jazz, using Art Pepper's chops on milky tenor and sharp alto saxophones alongside plush arrangements from Marty Paich. There were key links on this session to the Miles Davis nonet's Birth of the Cool a decade earlier, which opened with the same Denzil Best tune. But Pepper offered himself up as a more acidic improviser, jagging solo structures despite the comparative clarity in his tone. Some of the most compelling moments come during Horace Silver's "Opus de Funk," which Pepper spins as an intricate, if not entirely funky, platform for full-band riffing and pinching alto contrasts with the trumpet-driven brass section. There is a continual bowling-over process here, with Pepper overwhelmed by the full colors surrounding him, and then the ensemble likewise startled by Pepper's tart intensity. --Andrew Bartlett

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Average customer rating: When Jazz rules what are you talkin bout This CD is amazing - I can't stop playing it An all-time classic One of the best "little big band" jazz records ever made.

Art Pepper + Eleven Art Pepper Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section Intensity We Three Winter Moon Straight Life ASIN: B000000YIZ Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

1. Move
2. Groovin' High
3. Opus De Funk
4. Round Midnight
5. Four Brothers
6. Shaw Nuff
7. Bernie's Tune
8. Walkin' Shoes
9. Anthropology
10. Airegin
11. Walkin' (Original Take)
12. Walkin' (Alternate Take 1)
13. Walkin' (Alternate Take 2)
14. Donna Lee (Original Take)
15. Donna Lee (Alternate Take)

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By most standards a "little" big-band album, this set carried the bebop canon, such as it was, into the realm of California cool jazz, using Art Pepper's chops on milky tenor and sharp alto saxophones alongside plush arrangements from Marty Paich. There were key links on this session to the Miles Davis nonet's Birth of the Cool a decade earlier, which opened with the same Denzil Best tune. But Pepper offered himself up as a more acidic improviser, jagging solo structures despite the comparative clarity in his tone. Some of the most compelling moments come during Horace Silver's "Opus de Funk," which Pepper spins as an intricate, if not entirely funky, platform for full-band riffing and pinching alto contrasts with the trumpet-driven brass section. There is a continual bowling-over process here, with Pepper overwhelmed by the full colors surrounding him, and then the ensemble likewise startled by Pepper's tart intensity. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

When Jazz rules.......2005-12-07

This is some spectacular, immortal music. It is surely one of the most stunning and complete examples of the art of Jazz playing, improvising, composing and arranging. So you have the full picture of what the art of modern jazz is all about in one single album. Here you have some of the greatest modern jazz compositions (from Parker's, Gillespie's, Mulligan's etc songbooks), a spectacular arranger in charge (Marty Paich), an incredible soloist, one of the greatest sax player in the history of jazz music and a very tight small-big band roaring. I'd rate this album surely among, not the best 100 jazz albums of all time, but I would rate it among the best 25 for sure. Maybe it could be even in my top ten (and I own 7000 jazz cds at this time). I have listened to this one thousands of times and it has never tired me. It is still one of the best Art Pepper recordings for sure. Probably I am more affected to Surf Ride where he plays magnificiently in combo format, but Plus Eleven is still among his three or four most important albums (Plus rhythmn section, Surf Ride, everything from his fifties period) and one of the most important album in the history of Jazz music. I prefer Art's "Plus Eleven" to "Birth of the cool" from Miles Davis two albums often compared. Plus eleven swings a lot more and it is a lot more hard driven, which for me it's a plus! Buy it and scream with me, "JAZZ"!

what are you talkin bout.......2005-01-15

your talkin bout another Cd...Bud Shank in NOT on this session...!

This CD is amazing - I can't stop playing it.......2002-10-12

The first time I played this CD I was astounded at the quality of Art Pepper's sound. He is so tight, expressive and dexterous that it is no wonder that Art Pepper placed second behind Charlie Parker in a 1951 "Down beat" magazine poll. He plays so well in the high register that the only other sax players of comparable quality are either Charlie Parker or Stan Getz.

The songs on this album are all covers of modern jazz classics; and I don't use the word "classics" lightly. He covers such jazz masters as: Dizzy, Monk, Rollins Mulligan, Bird and others. I think all of the original artists covered here must of been floored over how well this album came out.

The arranging on this album is masterful. Marty Paich set up an infrastructure that just lets Pepper tear into it. And when he does, you just say "wow!"

Some brand name musicians contribute here such as trumpet player, Jack Sheldon; (Merv Griffin's band leader, and also a former vocalist on the "School house Rock" series), Bill Perkins, Russ Freeman and many more contribute as well.

The liner motes are pretty good though they do label Art Pepper a tenor sax player rather than an alto. That's a huge, unforgivable, error but the history of the CD and the quotes by Marty Paich are thoughtful and nice.

This CD is up there with "The Birth of Cool"! It is that important of a contribution to the art of jazz.

An all-time classic.......2001-10-29

Art Pepper recorded this classic back in 1959 and walked away with a masterpiece. The quality of the recording alone is a lesson in microphone placement, but the lively, fresh, and alive playing by the band members must have blown the roof off of the studio. Anyone interested in the "cool" west coast jazz sound of the late 50's could use this album as thier bible. A delight to listen to over and over, I would count this as one of the top 100 albums ever recorded.

One of the best "little big band" jazz records ever made........1999-01-14

With Marty Paich arranging, and a gang of top-notch West-coast players backing him up, Art Pepper recorded this stunner in 1959. Incredibly tight, snappy, and playful--and veritably levitating in Paich's trademark walls of cascading harmony-- it sounds as fresh and ebullient as any collection of bebop/cool jazz standards recorded before or since. Art Pepper, though in top form, by no means hogs the stage here: Everybody shines, everybody blends magnificently, and not a single note is flubbed or fudged. A MUST for Art Pepper fans, West Coast fans, and big band fans. In my opinion, it ranks among the top 100 (or at least 200) jazz records of all time.

MAR 14/59- Art Pepper(cl,as,ts)Pete Candoli Jack Sheldon(tp)Bob Enevoldsen(v-tb,ts)Vince Derosa(fhr)Herb Geller(as)Dick Nash(tb)Bill Perkins(ts)Med Flory(bar)Russ Freeman(p)Joe Mondragon(b)Mel Lewis(d)

Tracks: Opus De Funk, Round About Midnight, Walkin Shoes, Airegin

MAR 28/59- Al Porcino(tp)Bud Shank(as) replace Candoli and Geller

Tracks: Groovin High, Shaw Nuff, Donna Lee (Orig Tk), Donna Lee (Tk 1), Anthropology (AP plays cl)

MAY 12/59- Charlie Kennedy(as,ts)Richie Kamuca(ts) replace Shank and Perkins

Tracks: Move, Four Brothers, Walkin (Orig Tk), Walkin (Tk 1), Walkin (Tk 2), Bernie's Tune

Average customer rating:

Art Pepper + Eleven (20 Bit Mastering) Art Pepper , and Art Pepper Manufacturer: Contemporary ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Smack Up (20 Bit Master) Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section Jazz Giant (20 bit mastering) Boss Tenor (20 Bit Mastering) 4, 5 and 6 ASIN: B00006LLPT Release Date: 2002-10-15

Tracks:

1. Move
2. Groovin' High
3. Opus de Funk
4. 'Round Midnight
5. Four Brothers
6. Shaw 'Nuff
7. Bernie's Tune
8. Walkin' Shoes
9. Anthropology
10. Airegin
11. Walkin'
12. Donna Lee
13. Walkin' [Alternate Take 1]
14. Walkin' [Alternate Take 2]
15. Donna Lee [Alternate Take]

Average customer rating:

Art Pepper + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics Art Pepper Manufacturer: Jvc Victor ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Ascension Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section ASIN: B000FIHBKE Release Date: 2006-07-03

Tracks:

1. Move
2. Groovin' High
3. Opus de Funk
4. 'Round Midnight
5. Four Brothers
6. Shaw 'Nuff
7. Bernie's Tune
8. Walkin' Shoes
9. Anthropology
10. Airegin
11. Walkin'
12. Donna Lee
13. Walkin' [Alternate Take 1]
14. Walkin' [Alternate Take 2]
15. Donna Lee [Alternate Take]

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Average customer rating:

Art Pepper + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics Art Pepper Manufacturer: Contemporary ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section Time Out Kind of Blue ASIN: B0000YTP7K Release Date: 2004-01-20

Tracks:

1. Move
2. Groovin' High
3. Opus de Funk
4. 'Round Midnight
5. Four Brothers
6. Shaw 'Nuff
7. Bernie's Tune
8. Walkin' Shoes
9. Anthropology
10. Airegin
11. Walkin' [Original Take]
12. Walkin' [Alternate Take][*] - Art Pepper
13. Walkin' [Alternate Take 1][*]
14. Donna Lee [Original Take] - Art Pepper
15. Donna Lee [Alternate Take][*]

Average customer rating:

Art Pepper + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics Art Pepper Manufacturer: Analogue Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000001PEH Release Date: 2001-02-13

Tracks:

1. Move
2. Groovin' High
3. Opus De Funk
4. 'Round Midnight
5. Four Brothers
6. Shawn Nuff
7. Berni's Tune
8. Walkin' Shoes
9. Anthropology
10. Airegin
11. Walkin'
12. Donna Lee (Original Take)
13. Walkin' (Alternate Take 1)
14. Walkin' (Alternate Take 2)
15. Donna Lee (Alternate Take) - Art Pepper

Amazon.com Music Reviews

By most standards a "little" big-band album, this set carried the bebop canon, such as it was, into the realm of California cool jazz, using Art Pepper's chops on milky tenor and sharp alto saxophones alongside plush arrangements from Marty Paich. There were key links on this session to the Miles Davis nonet's Birth of the Cool a decade earlier, which opened with the same Denzil Best tune. But Pepper offered himself up as a more acidic improviser, jagging solo structures despite the comparative clarity in his tone. Some of the most compelling moments come during Horace Silver's "Opus de Funk," which Pepper spins as an intricate, if not entirely funky, platform for full-band riffing and pinching alto contrasts with the trumpet-driven brass section. There is a continual bowling-over process here, with Pepper overwhelmed by the full colors surrounding him, and then the ensemble likewise startled by Pepper's tart intensity. --Andrew Bartlett

Average customer rating: This is what the West Coast sound was all about!!

Art Pepper + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics Art Pepper Manufacturer: Jvc Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005J4C4 Release Date: 2001-07-17

Tracks:

1. Move
2. Groovin' High
3. Opus de Funk
4. 'Round Midnight
5. Four Brothers
6. Shaw 'Nuff
7. Bernie's Tune
8. Walkin' Shoes
9. Anthropology
10. Airegin
11. Walkin'
12. Donna Lee
13. Walkin' [Alternate Take 1]
14. Walkin' [Alternate Take 2]
15. Donna Lee [Alternate Take]

Album Description

Japanese remastered reissue of 1959 album packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve.

Album Details

Japanese version featuring a limited LP style slipcase. 20bit digital K2 mastering. Features three additional tracks not on the original release.

Customer Reviews:

This is what the West Coast sound was all about!!.......2005-01-17

I recently contacted Fantasy Jazz Records in Berkley CA to inquire about these JP reissues, and was told they have a contract with JVC that allows them to lease and remaster from the origional tapes!! So it's not from an unknown source, but the price is an issue. My advice is to go with the domestic recent reissue /remaster; save $30 bucks and get the good sound. O, and the record is a classic, one that many consider to be a bench mark in Arts career at Contemporary Records. jb

Average customer rating:

+ Eleven ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000NO2998 Release Date: 2007-04-17

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Modern Jazz Classics Manufacturer: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000COEJU6

Product Description

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab silver CD; Art Pepper + Eleven - Modern Jazz Classics; Tracks: 1. Move 2. Groovin' High 3. Opus de Funk 4. 'Round Midnight 5. Four Brothers 6. Shawnuff 7. Bernie's Tune 8. Walkin' Shoes 9. Anthropology 10. Airegin 11. Walkin' 12. Donna Lee

Average customer rating: When Jazz rules what are you talkin bout This CD is amazing - I can't stop playing it An all-time classic One of the best "little big band" jazz records ever made.

Art Pepper + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics Art Pepper Manufacturer: Jvc / Xrcd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Modern Post Bop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section Intensity We Three Winter Moon Straight Life ASIN: B0000589DU Release Date: 2001-02-27

Tracks:

1. Move
2. Groovin' High
3. Opus De Funk
4. 'Round Midnight
5. Four Brothers
6. Shawnuff
7. Bernie's Tune
8. Walkin' Shoes
9. Anthropology
10. Airegin
11. Walkin'
12. Donna Lee
13. Walkin' (Alternate Take 1)
14. Walkin' (Alternate Take 2)
15. Donna Lee (Alternate Take)

Amazon.com Music Reviews

By most standards a "little" big-band album, this set carried the bebop canon, such as it was, into the realm of California cool jazz, using Art Pepper's chops on milky tenor and sharp alto saxophones alongside plush arrangements from Marty Paich. There were key links on this session to the Miles Davis nonet's Birth of the Cool a decade earlier, which opened with the same Denzil Best tune. But Pepper offered himself up as a more acidic improviser, jagging solo structures despite the comparative clarity in his tone. Some of the most compelling moments come during Horace Silver's "Opus de Funk," which Pepper spins as an intricate, if not entirely funky, platform for full-band riffing and pinching alto contrasts with the trumpet-driven brass section. There is a continual bowling-over process here, with Pepper overwhelmed by the full colors surrounding him, and then the ensemble likewise startled by Pepper's tart intensity. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

When Jazz rules.......2005-12-07

This is some spectacular, immortal music. It is surely one of the most stunning and complete examples of the art of Jazz playing, improvising, composing and arranging. So you have the full picture of what the art of modern jazz is all about in one single album. Here you have some of the greatest modern jazz compositions (from Parker's, Gillespie's, Mulligan's etc songbooks), a spectacular arranger in charge (Marty Paich), an incredible soloist, one of the greatest sax player in the history of jazz music and a very tight small-big band roaring. I'd rate this album surely among, not the best 100 jazz albums of all time, but I would rate it among the best 25 for sure. Maybe it could be even in my top ten (and I own 7000 jazz cds at this time). I have listened to this one thousands of times and it has never tired me. It is still one of the best Art Pepper recordings for sure. Probably I am more affected to Surf Ride where he plays magnificiently in combo format, but Plus Eleven is still among his three or four most important albums (Plus rhythmn section, Surf Ride, everything from his fifties period) and one of the most important album in the history of Jazz music. I prefer Art's "Plus Eleven" to "Birth of the cool" from Miles Davis two albums often compared. Plus eleven swings a lot more and it is a lot more hard driven, which for me it's a plus! Buy it and scream with me, "JAZZ"!

what are you talkin bout.......2005-01-15

your talkin bout another Cd...Bud Shank in NOT on this session...!

This CD is amazing - I can't stop playing it.......2002-10-12

The first time I played this CD I was astounded at the quality of Art Pepper's sound. He is so tight, expressive and dexterous that it is no wonder that Art Pepper placed second behind Charlie Parker in a 1951 "Down beat" magazine poll. He plays so well in the high register that the only other sax players of comparable quality are either Charlie Parker or Stan Getz.

The songs on this album are all covers of modern jazz classics; and I don't use the word "classics" lightly. He covers such jazz masters as: Dizzy, Monk, Rollins Mulligan, Bird and others. I think all of the original artists covered here must of been floored over how well this album came out.

The arranging on this album is masterful. Marty Paich set up an infrastructure that just lets Pepper tear into it. And when he does, you just say "wow!"

Some brand name musicians contribute here such as trumpet player, Jack Sheldon; (Merv Griffin's band leader, and also a former vocalist on the "School house Rock" series), Bill Perkins, Russ Freeman and many more contribute as well.

The liner motes are pretty good though they do label Art Pepper a tenor sax player rather than an alto. That's a huge, unforgivable, error but the history of the CD and the quotes by Marty Paich are thoughtful and nice.

This CD is up there with "The Birth of Cool"! It is that important of a contribution to the art of jazz.

An all-time classic.......2001-10-29

Art Pepper recorded this classic back in 1959 and walked away with a masterpiece. The quality of the recording alone is a lesson in microphone placement, but the lively, fresh, and alive playing by the band members must have blown the roof off of the studio. Anyone interested in the "cool" west coast jazz sound of the late 50's could use this album as thier bible. A delight to listen to over and over, I would count this as one of the top 100 albums ever recorded.

One of the best "little big band" jazz records ever made........1999-01-14

With Marty Paich arranging, and a gang of top-notch West-coast players backing him up, Art Pepper recorded this stunner in 1959. Incredibly tight, snappy, and playful--and veritably levitating in Paich's trademark walls of cascading harmony-- it sounds as fresh and ebullient as any collection of bebop/cool jazz standards recorded before or since. Art Pepper, though in top form, by no means hogs the stage here: Everybody shines, everybody blends magnificently, and not a single note is flubbed or fudged. A MUST for Art Pepper fans, West Coast fans, and big band fans. In my opinion, it ranks among the top 100 (or at least 200) jazz records of all time.

MAR 14/59- Art Pepper(cl,as,ts)Pete Candoli Jack Sheldon(tp)Bob Enevoldsen(v-tb,ts)Vince Derosa(fhr)Herb Geller(as)Dick Nash(tb)Bill Perkins(ts)Med Flory(bar)Russ Freeman(p)Joe Mondragon(b)Mel Lewis(d)

Tracks: Opus De Funk, Round About Midnight, Walkin Shoes, Airegin

MAR 28/59- Al Porcino(tp)Bud Shank(as) replace Candoli and Geller

Tracks: Groovin High, Shaw Nuff, Donna Lee (Orig Tk), Donna Lee (Tk 1), Anthropology (AP plays cl)

MAY 12/59- Charlie Kennedy(as,ts)Richie Kamuca(ts) replace Shank and Perkins

Tracks: Move, Four Brothers, Walkin (Orig Tk), Walkin (Tk 1), Walkin (Tk 2), Bernie's Tune

Average customer rating:

Art Pepper + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics Art Pepper Manufacturer: Contemporary ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0007OE5UU Release Date: 2005-09-27

Tracks:

1. Move
2. Groovin' High
3. Opus de Funk
4. 'Round Midnight
5. Four Brothers
6. Shaw 'Nuff
7. Bernie's Tune
8. Walkin' Shoes
9. Anthropology
10. Airegin
11. Walkin'
12. Donna Lee
13. Walkin' [Alternate Take 1]
14. Walkin' [Alternate Take 2]
15. Donna Lee [Alternate Take]

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