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Art Pepper

Author: JHS
Date: 2005-01-14 21:21

Did Art Pepper do any 'clarinet only' recordings? If not, which one of his records has the most clarinet playing in it? Thanks.

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Re: Art Pepper

Author: Dano
Date: 2005-01-15 02:42

One of my favorite musicians. Hypnoticaly listenable. On Art Pepper "Winter Moon" he does a great version of Blues in the Night on clarinet. On "Artworks" he does Charlie Parkers Anthropology. On Art Pepper and George Cables "Goin' Home" he does Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder. On the album "More for Les at the Village Vanguard, vol 4" he does More for Les on the clarinet. I am sure that I am missing some but that is what is off the top of my head. I don't know of a whole L.P. that has only clarinet by Art Pepper. I read somewhere that his wife, Laurie, was going to release a C.D. of only clarinet but that was about 10 years ago and I never heard about it again. I don't know if it ever materialized. If anyone knows, please chime in. He remains one of my favorite clarinetist because he played it like it was something other than a clarinet. Sometimes it's nice to hear another way of playing the clarinet. There is a rawness in his clarinet that does not happen too often. I think the clarinet suffers from too many hard and fast "rules" about tone and use of registers but that is another post.

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