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Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr. (September 1 1925-June 15, 1982) was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He began his musical career in the 1940s playing with Benny Carter and Stan Kenton. In the 1950s Pepper became one of the leading lights of West coast jazz, along with Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Shelly Manne, and others. Pepper was born in San Pedro, California, but lived for many years in the hills of Echo Park, another neighborhood in Los Angeles. He became a heroin addict in the 1940s, an...Read More >
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One of the more disturbing films of the late 1970's was “The Eyes Of Laura Mars.” No better choice than Art Pepper could be imagined. He brings a sense of the sophistication mixed with an underlying menace which is so much a part of this at times heavily graphic film.... MORE
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This icy song by Hoagy Carmichael gets an equally chilling performance from Art Pepper. The great Bill Holman writes stinging icycles in the strings that emphasize the bleakness of the song.
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“That’s Love” is a low down blues, played with much angularity but great, natural feeling for the blues by Art Pepper. A fellow veteran of the 1950's Stan Kenton Orchestra, Howard Roberts, plays a lean, mean blues full of controlled passion. Art Pepper plays with increasing passion, making his alto sax sing words that cannot be expressed.... MORE
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A man sits alone in a bus shelter. He doesn’t care if a bus comes or goes. He just sits and stares with a blank look on his face, his pain so intense that its only now very self evident in his looks and his posture. His unshaven face and eyes–eyes that are red from too much crying because the pain is branded deep into his soul. He has truly lost everything dear to him. His beloved has left him, telling him with to get lost—and get a life! His friends have all moved away from ... MORE
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Art Pepper was a gifted jazz alto saxophonist and junky. The crimes he committed to support his habit were punished by incarceration in San Quentin prison. Pepper recounted that prisoners in the yard would walk up to others there and ask a man to "take them on a trip". They were asking him to tell a story about something in their life that could take their minds away from prison life. It could be about an exploit the storyteller had been on, a memorable romantic en... MORE
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