Landscape (Art Pepper album)

Landscape is a live 1979 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with George Cables, Tony Dumas and Billy Higgins. The album was recorded at Shiba Yūbin Chokin Hall, Tokyo, at the same concerts that produced Besame Mucho.[1]

Landscape
Live album by
Released1979
Recorded16 July & 23 July 1979
VenueShiba Yūbin Chokin Hall, Minato, Tokyo
GenreJazz
Length52:33
63:39 CD reissue
LabelGalaxy/OJC
ProducerAkira Taguchi and Hiroshi Aono
Art Pepper chronology
Art Pepper Today
(1978)
Landscape
(1979)
Besame Mucho
(1979)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Fourth Edition, 1998
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow awarded the album 4.5 stars, commenting that "Pepper was in inspired form during this Tokyo concert" and that his "intensity and go-for-broke style are exhilarating throughout".[2]

Track listing

  1. "True Blues" (Art Pepper) – 8:07
  2. "Sometime" (Pepper) – 5:05
  3. "Landscape" (Pepper) – 10:26
  4. "Avalon" (Vincent Rose; Al Jolson; Buddy DeSylva) – 8:40
  5. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen; E.Y. Harburg) – 10:47
  6. "Straight Life" (Pepper) – 6:19
  7. "Mambo de la Pinta" (Pepper) – 11:06 Bonus track on CD reissue
(Recorded on 16 July & 23 July 1979.)

Personnel

References

  1. "Art Pepper Catalog". Jazz Discography Project. Archived from the original on August 19, 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  2. Yanow, Scott. Art Pepper: Landscape – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 160. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

Sources

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Penguin, 4th edition, 1998. ISBN 0-14-051383-3
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