Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper
by Art Pepper, Laurie Pepper
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Author: Art Pepper, Laurie PepperEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1994-03-21
ISBN: 0306805588
Number of pages: 616
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Book Review: Laurie Pepper is denying this work a wider audience
Summary: 5 Stars
This is, as other reviewers point out, one of the great jazz books and surely the greatest jazz biography of all time. It's really four books in one: an account of being on the road during the big band era, a harrowing study of addiction, a horrifying prison diary, and a funny and self-deprecating account of life in a cultish, southern California rehab centre. Any one of these narratives would have been interesting. Finding all four in one book is too much. That said, where is the movie version, which would finally bring Art Pepper's music to the wider audience it has long deserved? Was there ever a part more perfect for Robert Downey Jr. (who himself lived the addict's life)? Well, it turns out Laurie Pepper had Johnny Depp interested in playing Art but couldn't agree on a script for the film. Instead, she has apparently gone off to make some low-budget, piecemeal adaptation of Straight Life herself. It's really a travesty, the final indignity of a man who led a very undignified life, but who transcended it all with his art.
Summary of Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper
Art Pepper (1925-1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz book-it is one of the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all autobiographies. This edition is updated with an extensive afterword by Laurie Pepper covering Art Pepper's last years, and a complete and up-to-date discography by Todd Selbert.
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