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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
