Gaspare Pasini - Pepper Legacy: Complete Recordings

Keeping the Art Pepper flame alive, Italian alto saxophonist Gaspare Pasini and all-star American rhythm section featuring pianist George Cables, bassist Essiet Okon Essiet and former Art Pepper drummer Carl Burnett, this is a formidable album that truly captures the soulful and emotional aspects of Art Pepper's legacy to the jazz world. Included here are seven Pepper originals, including 'Ophelia' and 'Our Song',plus 'Au Revoir Mrs Poivre' by Phil Woods, and Gaspare Pasini's own composition, 'King Arthur'.

Art Pepper believed that jazz is passion. Technique and skill in improvisation are important of course, and wit, swing, and beauty. But it was in the passionate expression of emotion, of joy, grief, rage, frustration, bliss, and longing that his (Art Pepper) music found its echo in his hearers' hearts. Gaspare Pasini's creation, the Art Pepper Legacy, is a child of his passion for the music he feels so profoundly that he has invested his whole self in carrying on Art's emotional legacy. The feeling and the beauty are there, and he brings to it the most important thing of all. His love. LAURIE PEPPER (from liner notes)