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Art Pepper Notes from a Jazz Survivor is an intensely personal, painfully nrealing portrait of one of jazz' greatest alto saxophonists - a remarkably expressive jazz soloist and composer who also was an addict, thief, alcoholic, womanizer and wildman,
Pepper's phenomenal musical gift developed early. From the time he took up the saxophone at the age of 12, he proved such a natural that soon he was jamming around L.A. with musicians like Zoot Sime and Dexter Gordon. By the time he was 17, he was playing lead alto for Stan Kenton. But after this meteoric rise, his demons took over.
On the first time he used heroin, he recalls,
"Boy, if this is what the devil's got, it's what I want. I knew that was the beginning of the end." Over the next 16 years he spent more time in prison than out, including two terms in San Quentin.
In candid interviews, he recounts his troubled marriages, dependence on drugs, prison terms, and luck in meeting his last wife Laurie, an articulate, compassionate defender of her errant husband.
Through her devotion he was able to channel his immense reservoirs of pain, anger and frustration back into the lyric poetry of his playing.
For over half the film, Art leads a trio at a dub date in Malibu. Instead of deteriorating over the years of addiction, incarceration and silence,
his style had expanded and deepened -- his full ringing tone was unimpaired, his improvisations were brilliant and intense. After wasting so much of his life, we can only believe Art when he said, "Every time I play, I realize that it might be the last time. That's not being melodramatic. I just realize when you get to my age, things happen."
Live performances include Red Car, Patricia and Miss Who?
Featured songs include Our Song, Mambo Koyama and Ophelia.
"more than just a filmed record of a great jazz musicians intimate a look at the life of mother human being as we are ever likely to get."
-ST PAUL DISPATCH
“shouldn't be missed by jazz fans."
MINNEAPOLIS STAR AND TRIBUNE
Produced and Directed by Don McGlynn
Young Art Pepper photo and back cover photo (C) Ray Avery 1999
Color * 50 minutes
Duplicated in Real time / SP Mode
(C) 1982 Winter Moon Productions
(P) 1999 Shanachie Entertainment Corp.