Art Pepper

Featuring: Charlie Haden, Ron Carter

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Gatefold sleeve. Insert and obi included.

Prison, addiction, a decade lost, and then one of the most improbable late flowerings in the music. Art Pepper came back in the late seventies playing harder and rawer than he had in the fifties, having absorbed Coltrane and decided to stop being the elegant West Coast altoist everyone remembered. So In Love is from that stretch, recorded for John Snyder's audiophile-minded Artists House, and Pepper plays standards with an emotional directness that borders on uncomfortable. Beautiful tone, no polish, and a sense that every phrase is being paid for.

Japanese pressing on Artists House, superb sound. Late Pepper, which for many people is the only Pepper that matters.