Landscape (Art Pepper album) explained

Landscape
Type:	live
Artist:	Art Pepper
Cover:	Landscape (Art Pepper album).jpg
Released:	1979
Recorded:	16 July & 23 July 1979
Venue:	Shiba Yūbin Chokin Hall, Minato, Tokyo
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	52:33 63:39 CD reissue
Label:	Galaxy/OJC
Producer:	Akira Taguchi and Hiroshi Aono
Prev Title:	Art Pepper Today
Prev Year:	1978
Next Title:	Besame Mucho
Next Year:	1979

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]

Reception

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".

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

• Art Pepper – alto saxophone; clarinet on "Sometime"
• George Cables – piano
• Tony Dumas – Electric upright bass (credited as "blitz bass")
• Billy Higgins – drums

Sources

• Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Penguin, 4th edition, 1998.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Art Pepper Catalog. https://web.archive.org/web/20190819170923/https://www.jazzdisco.org/art-pepper/catalog/. August 19, 2019 . live. Jazz Discography Project. April 12, 2020.