{"product_id":"pre-order-art-pepper-11-lp","title":"Art Pepper - +11 - Contemporary LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeaturing all-analog mastering by Bernie Grundman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePressed at Quality Record Pressings\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContinuing Craft Recordings' 70th Anniversary celebration of Contemporary Records!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCraft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which begins with six album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70 years of the legendary jazz label. The releases are supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, the world's largest source for audiophile recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEach title, originally engineered by Roy DuNann and\/or Howard Holzer, features all-analog mastering from the original tapes by legendary engineer Bernie Grundman (himself a former employee of the label), as well as unsurpassed audiophile pressing on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, presented in a Stoughton Printing old-style tip-on jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe series highlights gems from Contemporary's extraordinary catalog and features artists who both defined and expanded the sound of West Coast jazz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKicking off the series is \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Pepper's +Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e Throughout the 1950s, '60s and '70s, Lester Koenig's artist-friendly Los Angeles-based audiophile jazz label documented career-defining performances by some of modern jazz's most influential and accomplished improvisers, including Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Harold Land and Benny Golson. No musician is more closely identified with Contemporary than Pepper, whose cool tone and simmering lyricism made him one of the very few mid-century alto saxophonists to forge a path independent of bebop patriarch Charlie Parker's pervasive influence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProduced by Koenig and recorded in 1959, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Pepper +Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the saxophonist's masterpieces. Featuring brilliant arrangements by Marty Paich, the album elaborates on the lush but lithe sound introduced by the epochal \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBirth of the Cool\u003c\/em\u003e sessions, which Miles Davis started to record almost exactly a decade earlier (like \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBirth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e+Eleven\u003c\/em\u003e kick offs with Denzil Best's \"Move\"). Surrounded by the cream of the LA scene, including fellow saxophone masters Herb Geller, Bill Perkins and Med Flory, Pepper brings all his scorching lyricism to a program of modern jazz standards by Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan and Sonny Rollins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UMG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59548581068881,"sku":"888072230965","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1034\/5778\/3889\/files\/Pepper__11_Shadow_Packshot_Sticker_2000x2000_91ecc5f4-bf49-40c1-8deb-ffea6f99a280_1680x_png.webp?v=1779353895","url":"https:\/\/c09u90-kd.myshopify.com\/products\/pre-order-art-pepper-11-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}