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.
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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
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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.
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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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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 ...
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"Art Pepper began his career in the 1940s, playing with Benny Carter and Stan Kenton (1946-52). By the 1950s Pepper was recognized as one of the leading alto saxophonists in jazz, epitomized by his finishing second only to Charlie Parker as Best Alto Saxophonist in the Down Beat magazine Readers Poll of 1952. Along with [...]
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