Pepper & Knepper (Metrojazz, '58)

[Guest ariceffron]

do you guys have this record. they were playing some of it on the radio today- it was really something. Wynton kelly, Doug Watkins, Elvin Jones. I have never heard of it before. Ditto metrojazz. but it is good, i'm telling you

[Jim Alfredson]

Welcome Aric!

[brownie]

Aric, welcome to this board! Let the fun begin.

This Pepper/Knepper date was really good. I have a Japanese reissue of it.

Listened to this after getting news that Knepper had passed away.

One of the great MetroJazz sessions that need to be reissued on CD.

[JSngry]

I believe that Metrojazz was the MGM jazz subsidiary before they bought Verve from Norman Granz. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but not a lot of their stuff got transfered to Verve that I'm aware of (Sonny's BRASS/TRIO is a notable exception), and not all that much of it has made it to CD.

This sounds like a really good one. Certainly a top-shelf lineup. What are the tunes?

[brownie]

The tunes to the Pepper/Knepper MetroJazz album were:

- Minor Catastrophe,

- All Too Soon,

- Beaubien,

- Adams in the Apple,

- Riverside Drive,

- I Didn't Know About You,

- Primrose Path

The Jones Brothers MetroJazz LP also made ito to Verve CD. Wish they would also

rerelease the other MetroJazz (Randy Weston/Lem Winchester at Newport, the Gigi

Gryce quartet album) records. There are also great sessions by Helen Merrill,

Melba Liston, Teddy Edwards, even a Sam 'The Man' Taylor album that is very nice.

[Dan Gould]

Isn't that Teddy Edwards MetroJazz a live date with Joe Castro where one side was Sonny Rollins? I think the Teddy side got orphaned because the Rollins has been reissued, I'm told. I saw this up on ebay not too long ago though I let it pass by.

[brownie]

That's the one. The Teddy Edwards side hasn't made it yet on CD. The Edwards/

Rollins LP was reissued in Japan years ago and I am a lucky owner of this.