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Art Pepper

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Stardust (2019)	New York Album (2019)	Art Pepper Meets the Rhyt... (2008)
The Artistry of Pepper (1992)	Winter Moon (1991)	Arthur's Blues (1991)
The Art of Pepper, Volume 3 (1990)	The Return of Art Pepper:... (1988)	Straight Life - The Savoy... (1984)
Darn That Dream (1982)	High Jingo (1982)	One September Afternoon (1981)
So in Love (1980)	No Limit (1978)	Living Legend (1976)
Intensity (1965)	Intensity (1965)	Gettin' Together! (1960)
Art Pepper + Eleven (1959)	Mucho Calor (1958)	Art Pepper With Warne Marsh (1957)
Playboys (1957)	Picture of Heath (1956)	Surf Ride (1956)
Popo (1952)

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1 Male

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47

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81,525

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Gardena, USA

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Jazz

Style
Jazz

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Born

1925

Active
--- 1982

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Art Pepper (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982), born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an American alto saxophonist and clarinetist.
Pepper was born in Gardena, California. He began his career in the 1940s, playing with Benny Carter and Stan Kenton (1946–52). By the 1950s Pepper was recognized as one of the leading alto saxophonists in jazz, epitomized by his finishing second only to Charlie Parker as Best Alto Saxophonist in the Down Beat magazine Readers Poll of 1952. Along with Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan and Shelly Manne, and perhaps due more to geography than playing style, Pepper is often associated with the musical movement known as West Coast jazz, as contrasted with the East Coast (or "hot") jazz associated with the likes of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Some of Pepper's most famous albums from the 1950s are Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, Art Pepper + Eleven - Modern Jazz Classics, Gettin' Together, and Smack Up. Representative music from this time appears on The Aladdin Recordings (three volumes), The Early Show, The Late Show, The Complete Surf Ride, and The Way It Was!, which features a session recorded with Warne Marsh.
His career was repeatedly interrupted by several prison stints stemming from his addiction to heroin, but Pepper managed to have several memorable and productive "comebacks." Remarkably, his substance abuse and legal travails did not affect the quality of his recordings, which maintained a high level of musicianship throughout his career until his death from a brain hemorrhage in 1982.
His last comeback saw Pepper, who had started his career in Stan Kenton's big band, becoming a member of Buddy Rich's Big Band from 1968 to 1969. In 1977 and 1978 he made two well received tours of Japan. During this period, he recorded two albums - Goin' Home with George Cables, and Winter Moon with a string orchestra - which were among his favorites and which he considered his definitive achievements.