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Intensity (Art Pepper album)

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Released
  
1963

Length
  
37:51

Artist
  
Art Pepper

Producer
  
Contemporary Records

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
23–25 November 1960

Intensity (1960)
  
Living Legend (1975)

Release date
  
1963

Label
  
Original Jazz Classics

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Similar
  
Art Pepper albums, Jazz albums

Intensity is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Dolo Coker, Jimmy Bond and Frank Butler. The album was released in 1963.

Contents

The sleeve notes (by Lester Koenig) quote Richard Hadlock, jazz editor of the San Francisco Examiner, who writes:

"As this and his last Contemporary release Smack Up!, demonstrate, Art was well on his way toward a new kind of playing freedom in 1960. He had, partly through the examples of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, begun to set aside his few remaining inhibitions and reach out for still more direct contact with his emotions... A musician friend told me recently that sometimes Pepper's playing 'sounds like a man crying — it just tears you up.' I agree."

Track listing

  1. "I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me" (Jimmy McHugh; Clarence Gaskill) — 4:25
  2. "I Love You" (Cole Porter) — 5:25
  3. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen; Johnny Mercer) — 4:45
  4. "Long Ago (And Far Away)" (Jerome Kern; Ira Gershwin) — 4:24
  5. "Gone With The Wind" (Allie Wrubel; Herb Magidson) — 6:00
  6. "I Wished on the Moon" (Ralph Rainger; Dorothy Parker) — 5:37
  7. "Too Close For Comfort" (Jerry Bock; Larry Holofcener; George David Weiss) — 6:46

Personnel

  • Art Pepper — alto saxophone
  • Dolo Coker — piano
  • Jimmy Bond — bass
  • Frank Butler — drums
  • Songs

    1I Can't Believe That You Are in Love With Me4:25
    2I Love You5:27
    3Come Rain or Come Shine4:48

    References

    Intensity (Art Pepper album) Wikipedia