Art Pepper - Straight Life album flac

Straight Life is a 1979 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Tommy Flanagan, Red Mitchell, Billy Higgins and Kenneth Nash. Some versions have the bonus track "Long Ago (and Far Away)". Surf Ride" (Art Pepper) – 6:57. Nature Boy" (eden ahbez) – 9:55. Straight Life" (Art Pepper) – 4:09. September Song" (Anderson; Kurt Weill) – 11:00. Make A List" (Art Pepper) – 9:46. Recorded on 21 September 1979. Art Pepper – alto saxophone. Tommy Flanagan – piano.

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Art Pepper (1925-1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography. Speaking of Art's wife, Laurie Pepper, who co-authored the book, I can't say enough about the fantastic job she did culling together all of these interviews she did with Art and his acquaintances, relatives, et. and fashioning it into a very readable book that just flows very nicely from beginning to end. She has also recently published a follow-up to this book called "Art Pepper: Why I Stuck with A Junkie Jazzman"

Art and Laurie Pepper's Straight Life-The Story of Art Pepper exists as a classic biography within an autobiography, wrapped in a memoir. Published originally in 1979 and then again in 1994 with a new afterword, updating the alto saxophonist's story from 1979 until his death in 1982, Straight Life remains the touchstone of the post-bebop West Coast jazz life. The album art of these LPs depicts a physically beautiful man, intense and smoldering. The music reveals an alto saxophonist and clarinetist with an empathic knack for ballads and burners, a knack that would transform into a battlefield in the latter part of Pepper's career. In the recording chronology, after Pepper had recorded the sides which would become Intensity (Contemporary, 1960) on November 23- 25, 1960, it would be 15 years before Pepper would record again as a leader.

Cassette - Original Jazz Classics, Galaxy/OJC. Altoist Art Pepper recorded many albums for the Galaxy label during 1979-1982, all of which have been reissued in a massive 16-CD "complete" box set. This single CD is pretty definitive and serves as a perfect introduction to Pepper's second (and most rewarding) period. Not only is there a superior version of Pepper's famous title cut but very emotional (and explorative) renditions of "September Song" and "Nature Bo.