Living Legend (Art Pepper album)

Living Legend
Studio album by Art Pepper
Released 1975
Recorded 9 August 1975
Genre Jazz
Length 49:00
Label Contemporary/OJC
Producer Lester Koenig
Art Pepper chronology
Intensity
(1960)		 Living Legend
(1975)		 The Trip
(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD Fourth Edition, 1998
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[1]

Living Legend is a 1975 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Hampton Hawes, Charlie Haden and Shelly Manne.

This was Art Pepper's 'comeback' album, the first to be released after his long absence due to drug addiction and incarceration in San Quentin prison. Pepper had been finally released in 1966 and for a while only played tenor saxophone, showing how much of an influence John Coltrane had been on him in the intervening years. In 1968 Buddy Rich asked him to join his big band on alto; Pepper borrowed an alto and, in his words, quoted in the sleeve notes to this album, 'discovered I was able to say everything I wanted to say and I didn't have to sacrifice my individuality to be accepted or to be modern'.

Following two operations for a ruptured spleen, Pepper moved into Synanon, a rehabilitation centre for recovering addicts, and began the slow return to full-time performing and recording.

Track listing

  1. "Ophelia" – 7:51
  2. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 5:40
  3. "What Laurie Likes" – 6:45
  4. "Mr. Yohe" – 7:10
  5. "Lost Life" – 5:52
  6. "Samba Mom-Mom" – 8:23
(Recorded on 9 August 1975.)

All songs written by Art Pepper unless otherwise noted.

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 160. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

Sources

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