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product_id: 86591842
title: "Living Legend by Art Pepper (1991-05-03)"
brand: "art pepper"
price: "$268"
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reviews_count: 8
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# Living Legend by Art Pepper (1991-05-03)

**Brand:** art pepper
**Price:** $268
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- **What is this?** Living Legend by Art Pepper (1991-05-03) by art pepper
- **How much does it cost?** $268 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lutherans Swing!
*by S***L on October 24, 2002*

The previous reviewer says it all about this album--its surprising combination of competence and freshness despite the alto saxophonist's hiatus removing him not only from the recording studio but from playing altogether  (though between San Quentin and Synanon, Art did briefly try to "catch on" by playing Coltrane-inspired tenor saxophone at Shelly's Manne Hole).  It's especially good to get the album back after losing my LP version 15 years ago. Originally, it was an "impulse purchase" on my part, motivated by the cover photo of Art wearing a cut-off shirt with a "Texas Lutheran" insignia (a college campus I've visited). On this album Pepper re-traces Martin Luther's own "Lost Soul" and its journey, as portrayed by British playwright John Osborne in "Luther," from the valley of the shadow of death to the salvation awaiting the one whose faith is strong.  (Besides the Lord, his supportive wife Laurie deserves equal credit for Art's remarkable resurgence during the last 6-8 years of his life.)  I have no idea why Art was wearing a Texas Lutheran shirt, but it's details like this that, like an adventurous and playful jazz solo, can yield surprising results.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ what a session
*by R***Y on July 10, 2003*

For Art Pepper this session must have seemed heaven sent.  As if he had spent what seemed a lifetime walking down an abandon road in the middle of nowhere enveloped in 120 degree heat.  Finally, at the end of the road stood a man with a pair of drum sticks in one hand and in the other was the biggest, coldest, most freshly squeezed glass of orange juice ever (no pulp)."Suck it down", said Shelly.Whoever came up with the idea of assembling this rhythm section, for Art's release, should receive some sort of an award.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the greatest Art Pepper studio dates
*by M***S on November 17, 2017*

This is one of my favourite Art Pepper sessions. A supple inside-outside rhythm section (Shelly Manne, Hampton Hawes, Charlie Haden - all living legends in their own rights) and Art doing some of his most impassioned and edgy playing on record. The nicely varied programme includes the studio version of Art’s “Ophelia”, which would become a staple of his later live sets, the wrenching “Lost Life”, and fine examples of Art’s favourite styles, jazz-funk (Hawes really was an underrated virtuoso on electric piano), a samba, and a spritely, swinging blues that serves as a nice nod to Pepper’s 1950s style. A fast-moving and life-affirming album that announced a living legend’s rearrival on the scene, then and for all time.

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