Art Pepper
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Categories: 1925 births | 1982 deaths | Cool jazz saxophonists | West Coast jazz saxophonists | Mainstream jazz saxophonists | Bebop saxophonists | Post-bop saxophonists | Hard-bop saxophonists | Saxophonists | American jazz alto saxophonists | Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery | Italian-American jazz musicians
Art Pepper (September 1 1925–June 15, 1982) born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr. in Gardena, California, was an American cool jazz alto saxophonist. He began his career in the 1940s playing with Benny Carter and Stan Kenton. By the 1950s Pepper had became one of the leading lights of West Coast jazz along with Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan and Shelly Manne. Examples of Pepper's most famous albums from this period are Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, Art Pepper + Eleven - Modern Jazz Classics, Gettin' Together, and Smack Up. Representative music from this time appears on The Aladdin Recordings (three volumes), The Early Show, The Late Show, The Complete Surf Ride, and The Way It Was!, which features a session recorded with Warne Marsh. Pepper lived for many years in the hills of Echo Park, in Los Angeles. He had became a heroin addict in the 1940s, and his career was interrupted by drug-related prison sentences in the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s Pepper spent time in Synanon, a drug rehabilitation group at that time. After beginning methadone therapy in the mid-1970s, Art had a musical comeback and recorded a series of highly acclaimed albums. Albums from this later period include The Living Legend, Art Pepper Today, Among Friends, and Live in Japan: Vol. 2. His harrowing, remarkable autobiography Straight Life (1980)(transcribed by his third wife Laurie Pepper), is a unique exploration into the jazz music world, as well as drug and criminal subcultures of mid-twentieth century California. The documentary film Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor, available on DVD, devotes much space to music from one of his late groups featuring pianist Milcho Leviev. There is also an interview with Laurie Pepper available on NPR. Discography1951 Popo - w/ Shorty Rogers Xanadu Records As a sideman:
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