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Subject: Non-criticism/non-monograph books (was Re: [Leica] LeicaBooks....which to buy?)
From: lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)
Date: Tue Dec 27 14:56:16 2005

Jon, 'Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section' has the most realistic sax sound
I have every heard, even after all these years. Play it on a high end system
with the lights turned off and the man is with you in the room.

Steve

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Subject: Re: Non-criticism/non-monograph books (was Re: [Leica]
LeicaBooks....which to buy?)

Of the Photographers books the one that interests me most is the recent
Claxton book with his Jazz shots.....but at $200....forget about it...


Regarding biographies....A sad and ironic event in my life... Art Pepper
always amazed me with his playing. I read and was moved by his autobiography
"Straight Life" where he addressed his drug addiction. The night came when
he was playing in San Jose, Ca. at a place called Garden City. Small
club...small room attached to a card club. My date and I found seats at a
table right in front of the bandstand. Art was on fire that night...probably
the greatest Jazz performance I ever attended and I have heard just about
every legend over the past 40 years. After the set he came down and sat with
my date and I...
"You play don't you?" He asked...
"Well...yeh"
"Trumpet?"
"Yeh!" (I was surprised)
"Didn't we do a gig in Chicago, um...early mid 50's?" (I'm from Chicago)
"No..don't think so"   (I was in my single digit years through most the
50's)
"Were we in the Joint together?"
"Nope"
The drinks started coming...all on the house...Art being Art and my date
being a close friend of the club's owner. While we were drinking and talking
I suddenly remembered his biography and battles with substance abuse. I too
had had my battles with alcohol...having just "gone out" after a year and a
half sober...(I now have 22 years continuous sobriety) ...
A few months later he was dead of a stroke (6/82) I got sober in 3/83. His
wife Laurie added a chapter to Straight Life after his passing...."He never
got completely clean and sober"

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