Art Pepper Quartet – Modern Art ( Tone Poet )

Description

Release Date 4th April 2025

Recorded in Hollywood, California between two sessions in December 1956 and January 1957, Art Pepper’s Modern Art for the Intro label featured his melodic alto saxophone flights atop cool jazz, bebop, and blues in the company of a quartet with Russ Freeman on piano, Ben Tucker on bass, and Chuck Flores on drums. This mono Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe tip-on jacket.

Tracklist:

Side A

1. Blues In

You’re Smiling

Bunny

Side B

1. Diannes’ Dilemma

‘ At The Savoy

Is This Thing Called Love

Out