music clip of the day

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])

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“Mambo Koyama,” live, Italy, 1981

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“What’s New?” (1956)

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“Over the Rainbow” (1982)

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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]