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The Art Trip: the music of Art Pepper at Wakefield Jazz
Courtesy of | Posted on March 13, 2012
Where
Wakefield Jazz
Wakefield Sports Club, Eastmoor Road
Wakefield
Map
01977 680542
When
Fri, October 5, 2012
20.30 - 23.00
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Musicians
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“Bassist Al Swainger, alongside an excellent group that includes reeds master Alan Barnes on alto saxophone, pays homage to one of the greatest saxophonists in jazz - Art Pepper. The compositions, and distinctive treatment of familiar standards, still speak with an immediacy and directness that attracts a wide range of listeners. His playing always dazzled from the earliest, virtuosic, rhythmically daring approach, to the darker hues of his almost disturbing later work, when, after years of incarceration and involvement with drugs, he had honed his style into one of overwhelming emotional intensity....