Intensity (Art Pepper album)

Infobox Album
Name = Intensity
Type = album
Artist = Art Pepper


Released = 1963
Recorded = 23 November - 25 November 1960
Genre = Jazz
Length = 37:51
Label = Contemporary/OJC
Producer = Lester Koenig
Reviews =
* The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Fourth Edition, 1998 rating|4|4
Last album = "Smack Up
(1959)
This album = "Intensity"
(1960)
Next album = "Living Legend"
(1975)

"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.

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

#"I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me" (Jimmy McHugh; Clarence Gaskill) — 4:25
#"I Love You" (Cole Porter) — 5:25
#"Come Rain Or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen; Johnny Mercer) — 4:45
#"Long Ago (And Far Away)" (Jerome Kern; Ira Gershwin) — 4:24
#"Gone With The Wind" (Allie Wrubel; Herb Magidson) — 6:00
#"I Wished on the Moon" (Ralph Rainger; Dorothy Parker) — 5:37
#"Too Close For Comfort" (Jerry Bock; Larry Holofcener; George David Weiss) — 6:46::"(Recorded on 23 November - 25 November 1960.)"

Personnel

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

ources

*Richard Cook & Brian Morton. "The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD". Penguin, 4th edition, 1998. ISBN 0-14-051383-3