1979 studio album by Art Pepper
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Straight Life jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Tommy Flanagan , Red Mitchell , Billy Higgins and Kenneth Nash.
Some versions have the bonus track "Long Ago (and Far Away) ".
Title Track [ ] Pepper's composition "Straight Life" is a contrafact of "After You've Gone ", and it was also recorded for Pepper's 1957 album Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section Straight Life Freddie Hubbard and organist Jimmy Smith both released albums and compositions unrelated to Pepper's with the title "Straight Life".
Track listing [ ] "Surf Ride" (Art Pepper ) – 6:57
"Nature Boy " (eden ahbez ) – 9:55
"Straight Life" (Art Pepper ) – 4:09
"September Song " (Kurt Weill , Maxwell Anderson ) – 11:00
"Make A List" (Art Pepper ) – 9:46 (Recorded on 21 September 1979.) Personnel [ ] Sources [ ] Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . Penguin, 4th edition, 1998. ISBN 0-14-051383-3 References [ ] show Years given are for the recording(s) featuring Art Pepper, not first release.
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
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