Featuring an all-star quartet that includes Red Garland, Paul Chambers and “Philly” Joe Jones. Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is a mythic recording. The circumstances surrounding its genesis were first revealed in Pepper’s steely autobiography ‘Straight Life‘ and reproduced countless times in articles and liner notes. Here it goes, one more time. On the morning of the recording session, January 19, 1957, Pepper’s then-wife Diane informed him that she had secured an afternoon recording session with the Miles Davis rhythm section who were in Los Angeles appearing with Davis. Unhappily surprised and with a horn in bad need of repair, Pepper fixed an extra large amount of heroin and was off to the session. The music produced from this chaos has been described as “a diamond of recorded jazz history.” 

Side A
1. You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To
2. Red Pepper Blues
3. Imagination
4. Waltz Me Blues
5. Straight Life

Side B
1. Jazz Me Blues
2. Tin Tin Deo
3. Star Eyes
4. Birks Works