A mostly musical fallow period characterized by Pepper's multiple prison and drug rehabilitation stays. There was some notable biodiscographics to consider. Pepper's playing had come under the spell ...

Art Pepper was a self-taught jazz saxophonist who never practiced. But he earned acclaim as one of the greatest alto players to follow in the footsteps of Charlie Parker, and one of the foremost ...

Roughly about a year before Art Pepper was sentenced to 3 to 20 years in San Quentin State Prison on heroin charges, he made this recording. Miles Davis' rhythm section was briefly available in Los ...

Laurie Pepper, the widow of saxophonist Art Pepper, has written a memoir, ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman (APMCorp), described as a companion piece she and the late saxophonist published in ...

Art Pepper’s Straight Life is one of the seminal jazz autobiographies, essential for its portrait of the postwar West Coast scene and its pitiless portrayal of the addict’s lifestyle. The book was a ...

As a full-time professional musician and teacher of brass instruments for almost 30 years, I have frequently explained to students the inaccuracy of the old adage that “practice makes perfect” ...

Although most essential for completists, The Complete Maiden Voyage Recordings is a crucial document, broadening and re-contextualizing West Coast jazz and Art Pepper‘s role in it. These seven CDs, ...

Since 2006, Laurie Pepper, the widow of jazz saxophonist Art Pepper, has been releasing live recordings her husband made during the last years of his life. A new batch of these recordings from 1981 is ...

The sessions for what would become Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section took place on January 19, 1957. It was a period that saw saxophone great Art Pepper facing down some serious demons. He had just ...

Russ Denton has fallen victim to Art Pepper’s legendary self-mythologising (Letters, 23 August 23). Pepper practised assiduously, in and out of prison. He’d not only played in the six months previous ...

One track, an epic 11-minute rendition of Pepper’s jazz/funk composition “Red Car”, can be heard below. According to information provided by Elemental, “Art decided he wanted a new car, and Les Koenig ...