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from the jazz world for a number of years

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and then make a spectacular comeback.

he recorded, his work does not show it. Aiternate takes

For someone to do it twice is a miracle.

now available show what a resourceful and hard working

Art Pepper may be the onlY mqor

soloist he was, making every note and phrase count. He

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was fortunaie that he was affiliated with the Contemporary

voice that did just that. A major soloist

and Fantasy labels, with sympathetic label heads Les

with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and one of the leading

Koenig and Ralph Kaffel. His years at Fantasy fill over

voices in the West Coast jazz scene of the early '50's, his

16 CD's! Yet there is noihing in that collection that would

drug addiction stalled his career and created a lot of

be thought expendable, even when Art worked with

negative publicity. He came back hotter than ever, made a

someone where the rapport was missing.

classic series of jazz albums, and then suddenly left again

for an even longer period of time. When he re-emerged in the late'70's, he returned to stay. By the time of his

And it was Kaffel that gave him what he most

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death in 1 982, he'd proven that he was otre of the

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now jdined the ranks of only a handful of 'soloisi with

greatest voices in the history of jazz'

stringó' álbums that really work. lt is understandable that '

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autobiography STRAIGHT LiFE - The Story Of Art

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Pepper, perhaps the most candid autobiography by an artist in any field. Art believed in the truth, in liíe and his music, so it was typical of him ihat he did not spare him-

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Art thought it was his finesi album. 1 ,,

Art Pepper's life is chronicled in detail in his

This book starts with solos from the the years

right after he left Stan Kenton and played with such lead-

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ers asshorty Rogers and Shelly Manne, as well as lead-

self in telling his tale. The volume you now have before

ing'hii own groups. PEPPER RETURNS signifies the

you celebrates his music. lt is made up of solos on Alto

first comeback for Art, and STRAIGHT LIFE begins

Sax and Clarinet from the years 1952 thru 1980, and chronicles the long and precarious path that Art's music took. And yet there are a few constants throughout his

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. selection of solos from his classic Contemporary albums.

From OPHELIA onward, these solos are from his last' maturé period. Art composed many new pieces during '

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work; no matter how 'out' Art could get in his soloing, he

ihis time, and he often returned to composiiions from his

alwaysEtiessed melody and beauty in his music making

earlier years. As a bonus, we have included two versions

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His ballad playing is one of the treasures that he left us; gorgeous, often effusive, and yet funky at the same time.

of SURF RIDE, the firsi from 1952, the second from 1979. The similarities and differences are striking between the two, as even a casual look will show.

And when the tempo was fast, his invention was unflagging; he matured in the era of jazz where musicians had to prove ihemselves constantly against the competition. Art was always ready to show a troublesome rhythm section that he could hold his own and 'cut' them

lf music was truly Art's life, then this book is him a kick to know his music was being played and studied. I hope you have fun playing it.

if necessary. His wife Laurie has wriüen that he often played better under such pressures, that ultimately he loved noihing better than to be challenged. He spent his life showing listeners that he deserved their attention, and he experienced their love and adulation many times over in the years before his death'

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supplement to his autobiography. I'm sure it would give

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