ART PEPPER Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section (2010 issue UK 10-track digitally remastered CD album - By all accounts, this early 1957 session should have been a disaster. Recently released from federal prison, Pepper was still struggling with a heroin addiction and severely out of practice. The gig had been set up by Pepper's girlfriend [unbeknownst to him until just hours before the sessions were to begin], and he discovered at the last minute that - after several months of not playing - the cork in the mouthpiece of his horn had come loose. But in the end, the session proved to be a triumph rather than a disaster, with the camaraderie between Pepper and the Rhythm Section resulting in one of Art's greatest recordings. Includes the Bonus Recording 'The Man I Love', which was recorded at this session but was not included in the original album. Complete with extensive sleevenotes written by Jazz writer/broadcaster Neil Tesser)