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Art Pepper + Eleven LP 180g Vinyl Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series QRP USA
Title: + Eleven
Catalog Number: CR00383
Label: Contemporary Records
Reissued by: Craft Recordings
Barcode: 888072230965
Edition: 70th Anniversary Edition
Original release year: 1959
Reissue year: 2022
Number of discs: 1
Revolutions per minute: 33⅓ rpm
Disc size: 12"
Vinyl Weight Grade: 180gr
Total Item Weight: 322gr
Pressing country: USA
For Market Release in: USA
Added to catalog on: August 6, 2022
Collection: Contemporary Acoustic Sounds Series
Note: Never eligible for any further discounts
Vinyl Gourmet Club: Yes
Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series, from Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds, begins with six album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70 years of the legendary jazz label. The releases are supervised by Chad Kassem with each title, originally engineered by Roy DuNann and/or Howard Holzer, mastered all-analog by Bernie Grundman and pressed at QRP!
- Contemporary Records' 70th Anniversary
- Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series
- 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl
- All-Analog Mastering from the Original Tapes
- Cut by Bernie Grundman
- Pressed at Quality Record Pressings QRP, USA
- Stoughton Old-Style Tip-On Cover
Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which begins with six album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70 years of the legendary jazz label. The releases are supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, the world's largest source for audiophile recordings.
Each title, originally engineered by Roy DuNann and/or Howard Holzer, features all-analog mastering from the original tapes by legendary engineer Bernie Grundman (himself a former employee of the label), as well as unsurpassed audiophile pressing on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, presented in a Stoughton Printing old-style tip-on jacket.
The series highlights gems from Contemporary's extraordinary catalog and features artists who both defined and expanded the sound of West Coast jazz.
Kicking off the series is Art Pepper's +Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics. Throughout the 1950s, '60s and '70s, Lester Koenig's artist-friendly Los Angeles-based audiophile jazz label documented career-defining performances by some of modern jazz's most influential and accomplished improvisers, including Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Harold Land and Benny Golson. No musician is more closely identified with Contemporary than Pepper, whose cool tone and simmering lyricism made him one of the very few mid-century alto saxophonists to forge a path independent of bebop patriarch Charlie Parker's pervasive influence.
Produced by Koenig and recorded in 1959, Art Pepper +Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics is one of the saxophonist's masterpieces. Featuring brilliant arrangements by Marty Paich, the album elaborates on the lush but lithe sound introduced by the epochal Birth of the Cool sessions, which Miles Davis started to record almost exactly a decade earlier (like Birth, +Eleven kick offs with Denzil Best's "Move"). Surrounded by the cream of the LA scene, including fellow saxophone masters Herb Geller, Bill Perkins and Med Flory, Pepper brings all his scorching lyricism to a program of modern jazz standards by Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan and Sonny Rollins.
Musicians:
Art Pepper, Bud Shank, Charlie Kennedy & Herb Geller - alto saxophone
Med Flory - baritone saxophone
Joe Mondragon - bass
Mel Lewis - drums
Vince De Rosa - French horn
Russ Freeman - piano
Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca - tenor saxophone
Dick Nash - trombone
Al Porcino, Jack Sheldon, Pete Candoli - trumpet
Bob Enevoldsen - valve trombone, tenor saxophone
Track Listing:
Side A
01. Move
02. Groovin' High
03. Opus De Funk
04. 'Round Midnight
05. Four Brothers
06. Shawnuff
Side B
07. Bernie's Tune
08. Walkin' Shoes
09. Anthropology
10. Airegin
11. Walkin'
12. Donna Lee
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