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Straight, No Chaser: Omnivore Collects Art Pepper's Complete Artists House Sessions on New Box

July 17, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Omnivore Recordings is continuing its association with the late saxophone great Art Pepper with a new box set.  On September 13, the label will issue Promise Kept: The Complete Artists House Recordings on 5 CDs and digital platforms, collecting all four of Pepper's albums for John Snyder's Artists House label with bonus material.

Producer Snyder had long wished to record Pepper, and to that end, booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York.  But the sax man was under contract to Contemporary Records, whose head Les Koenig opted to record the stint himself.  Pepper, however, remained committed to recording for Snyder, the result of which was four albums recorded in 1979 and released in the ensuing years.

The four albums comprising The Complete Artists House Recordings feature Pepper's takes on numerous jazz standards including "Stardust," "Straight No Chaser," "A Night in Tunisia," "Body and Soul," "You Go to My Head," and "Desafinado."  All albums have all been remastered and expanded for this release, while an additional 11 session takes appear on a bonus fifth CD.  In total, 19 bonus tracks are spread across the set, some of which have appeared on compilations and some of which appear for the first time.

"Art Pepper had had a brilliant career as a jazz soloist and band leader until the mid-1950s when he started using heroin," writes Pepper's widow, Laurie Pepper, in the box set's liner notes.  "After that, incarcerations and treatments in prisons and hospitals kept him off the stages and out of the studios. He was only able to record sporadically until he got (relatively) sober in Synanon in 1972, and married -- me. Then, in the last ten years of his life, he composed, recorded, and toured more ambitiously than ever before, focused on securing his place among the true jazz greats -- where he knew he belonged."   Laurie Pepper has also furnished Omnivore with rare photographs of the sessions for inclusion in this collection.

As for the title Promise Kept, Laurie Pepper recalls, "John and Art both kept their promises. John brought Art into the wider world; he put him on the road. Just as he said he would, he brought him to New York and to the Village Vanguard, got his picture in the papers, got him on the radio. From Art, John got his dearest wish. He made these 32 recordings."

Look for Promise Kept: The Complete Artists House Recordings on September 13 from Omnivore Recordings at the links below!

Art Pepper, The Complete Artists House Recordings (Omnivore, 2019) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Disc One: So In Love (Artists House AH 9142, 1980)

  1. Straight, No Chaser (Take 3)
  2. Blues For Blanche
  3. So In Love
  4. Diane
  5. Stardust

Bonus Tracks

  1. Yesterdays (Take 2)
  2. Landscape
  3. Straight, No Chaser (Take 4)*

Disc Two: Artworks (Galaxy 5148, 1984)

  1. Body And Soul
  2. Anthropology (Take 2)
  3. Desafinado (Take 2)
  4. Donna Lee
  5. You Go To My Head
  6. Blues For Blanche (Alternate A)

Bonus Tracks

  1. Desafinado (Take 1)*
  2. Anthropology (Take 1)* 9. Donna Lee (Alternate A)

 Disc Three: New York Album (Galaxy 5154, 1985)

  1. A Night In Tunisia (Take 2)
  2. Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
  3. Straight, No Chaser (Take 2)
  4. Duo Blues
  5. My Friend John

Bonus Tracks

  1. Johnny's Blues
  2. A Night In Tunisia (Take 1)*
  3. Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) (Clarinet)*
  4. Straight, No Chaser (Take 1)
  5. My Friend John (Alternate)

Disc Four: Stardust (Victor VIJ-6442, 1985)

  1. My Friend John (Alternate A)
  2. Tin Tin Deo
  3. Stardust (Alternate A)
  4. In A Mellow Tone (Take 2)

Bonus Tracks

  1. Art's Sweet Blues
  2. But Beautiful (Take 1)
  3. You Go To My Head (Alternate B)*
  4. Yesterdays (Take 3)*
  5. Stardust (Alternate B)*
  6. Blues For Blanche (Alternate B)
  7. You Go To My Head (Alternate A).

 Disc Five: Sessions

  1. Blues For Blanche (Alternate C)*
  2. Yesterdays (Take 1)*
  3. My Friend John (Take 1 - Long False Start)*
  4. My Friend John (Take 2 - False Start)*
  5. Blues For Blanche (Alternate D)*
  6. Stardust (Long False Start)*
  7. Donna Lee (Alternate B)*
  8. But Beautiful (Take 2)
  9. A Night In Tunisia (Take 3)*
  10. Blues For Blanche (Alternate E)* Lover Man (Oh Where
  11. Can You Be) (Alternate Sax Take)*

(*) denotes previously unissued track

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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