Monday, 6/21/10

My favorite alto sax player?

There are days when I’d say this is the guy.

Art Pepper, September 1, 1925-June 15, 1982

“Red Car” (excerpt), live (Art Pepper: Notes From A Jazz Survivor [1982])

*****

“Mambo Koyama,” live, Italy, 1981

*****

“What’s New?” (1956)

*****

“Over the Rainbow” (1982)

**********

lagniappe

The epigraph to Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper by Art and Laurie Pepper (1979):

What is the use of talking and there is no end of talking,
There is no end of things in the heart.

—Ezra Pound ["Exile's Letter," from the Chinese poet Li Po; as punctuated in SL]

Explore posts in the same categories: bass, drums, jazz, piano, saxophone

Tags:

You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s


Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.