{"id":8294,"date":"2017-03-29T21:44:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T04:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8294"},"modified":"2017-03-29T21:57:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T04:57:02","slug":"a-pepper-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/03\/a-pepper-project\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pepper Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rifftides<\/em> is on the back burner for a few days. The proprietor is<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pepper-ca-1960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"200\" \/> immersed in annotating an extensive project involving Art Pepper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early recordings for the Contemporary label. Details will follow\u00e2\u20ac\u201deventually. For now, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the alto saxophonist from a 1960 session. Pepper (1925-1982) once said that his playing on this version of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Autumn Leaves\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153an example of me at my best.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kwlcgkhuxv4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Art Pepper with Dolo Coker, piano; Jimmy Bond, bass; and Frank Butler, drums, November, 1960, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">P.S. Jim Pepper&#8217;s inclusion in the <strong>Related<\/strong> section below is purely because of &#8221;\u00a0the coincidence of the last name he shared with Art. They were not related and, to the best of my knowledge, never played together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides is on the back burner for a few days. The proprietor is immersed in annotating an extensive project involving Art Pepper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early recordings for the Contemporary label. Details will follow\u00e2\u20ac\u201deventually. For now, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the alto saxophonist from a 1960 session. Pepper (1925-1982) once said that his playing on this version of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Autumn Leaves\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}