| Release Date | 08/12/2023 |
| Format | LP |
| Label | Craft Recordings |
| Catalogue Number | 7223094 |
Featuring an all-star quartet that includes Red Garland, Paul Chambers and “Philly” Joe Jones. Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is a mythic recording. The circumstances surrounding its genesis were first revealed in Pepper's steely autobiography 'Straight Life' and reproduced countless times in articles and liner notes. Here it goes, one more time. On the morning of the recording session, January 19, 1957, Pepper's then-wife Diane informed him that she had secured an afternoon recording session with the Miles Davis rhythm section who were in Los Angeles appearing with Davis. Unhappily surprised and with a horn in bad need of repair, Pepper fixed an extra large amount of heroin and was off to the session. The music produced from this chaos has been described as "a diamond of recorded jazz history."
Tracklist:
A1 You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
A2 Red Pepper Blues
A3 Imagination
A4 Waltz Me Blues
A5 Straight Life
B1 Jazz Me Blues
B2 Tin Tin Deo
B3 Star Eyes
B4 Birks Works