Art Pepper is one of only a handful of jazz artists whose life story is perhaps as well known as his recordings. Thanks largely to the publication of Straight Life in 1979, a searing autobiography ...

Jazz saxophonist Art Pepper was born 100 years ago today. He started on clarinet at age 9 and debuted on record with Stan Kenton at age 18. Pepper had an intensive and creative alto saxophone style ...

In her liner notes to Volume IV of the Art History Project, Art Pepper's widow describes him as a self-hating, alcoholic sex addict who turned to heroin in order to suppress these tendencies. Second ...

Art Pepper was an authentic Los Angeles jazz original. Born in Gardena in 1925, his career was immersed in almost every aspect of Southland jazz, from Central Avenue--which was still vibrant in his ...

Laurie Pepper is the wife of the late alto saxophonist Art Pepper, who died in 1982 and was considered to be the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. Laurie Pepper has just ...

Art Pepper’s 1977 autobiography Straight Life is still the most disturbing entry in the ever-expanding library of jazz memoirs. Pepper’s warts-and-all recounting of his own days as a topflight alto ...

Since 2006, Laurie Pepper, the widow of jazz saxophonist Art Pepper, has been releasing live recordings her husband made during the last years of his life. A new batch of these recordings from 1981 is ...

Pepper talks to a group of museum visitors on the lower level of the National Museum of African Art. Michelle Edwards / National Museum of African Art How do you get a robot to speak Swahili? That’s ...

Alan Barnes joins Alyn Shipton to choose saxophonist Art Pepper's finest recordings, and also reveals his remarkable talents on the clarinet, on the tenor sax and as a composer. Show more Despite a ...

An aura of legend has long accumulated round the Blues for the Fisherman sessions, which the late, great Art Pepper recorded in London during a hugely successful fortnight at Ronnie Scott’s two years ...