Born in Gardena (California) in 1925, after learning the clarinet at age 9 and move to the alto saxophone with 13 participating in orchestras such as Lee Young and Benny Carter in the area of \u200b\u200bLos Angeles. Thanks to the latter, it became part of the famous Stan Kenton Orchestra, with whom he participates in his first record label. He married Patti Moore at the age of 17 years and when it appears work perfectly, is called up by the U.S. Army and left for England, returning in 1946 where it returns to play with Stan Kenton, with whom he remained until 1952. Between 1952 and 1954 frequently recorded for the Savoy label, first in the company of the pianist Russ Freeman and August 54, with saxophonist Jack Montrose. At the same time as your reputation increases, so passionately devoted to music and women as the heroine, who has just discovered. Their dependence is such that his family was forced to mortgage his house to try a detox. The results are not expected, apart from being arrested for possession of narcotics. Will almost two years (between 1953 and 1954) between the prison hospital in Los Angeles and Fort Worth, beginning an ordeal in your life. While in prison, the relationship with his wife is degraded to the point where divorce. Upon his release he recorded with Jack Montrose, but soon return, for a season of 9 months in prison in Los Angeles, after a police search in his apartment. After an absence of 20 months, Pepper reappears on stage. Has joined forces with the composer and arranger and tenor saxophonist Jack Montrose and burned, working and touring with the new quartet of the latter. His second wife, introduced him to Lester Koenig responsible for Contemporary Records with whom extraordinary record several albums as "Art Pepper + Eleven" considered one of the disks cool emblematic of the movement or "Meets the Rhythm Section" and "Gettin 'Together' with the Miles Davis rhythm sections. Is again arrested for drug addiction in 1960 and sentenced him to join the worst of American prisons: San Quentin.
will spend three years in San Quentin (between 1961 and 1964). During this time discovers
Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane. On departure, please contact Shelly Manne and his friend returned to the stage, and although not recorded in any record, fortunately there is a unique document, released by Fresh Sound, "Art Pepper Quartet'64-In San Francisco" where you can listen to Art Pepper heavily influenced by Coltrane. In the early years of the seventies, Art Pepper makes a serious effort to detoxify and enter their own volunteer at a clinic in Santa Monica in a lamentable condition, barely 40 years had passed. He was there for three years and its output, very clean recovered but not all, showed a surprising naturalness to keep your creativity with the instrument, which had not played all that time. Had not stepped in all those years a recording studio, but his creativity and amazing sound remained intact friends and strangers, becoming one of the most extraordinary cases of recovery from a musician for jazz. In 1975, when no one would bet on him, Contemporary got a new Pepper album, entitled "Living Legend" with a cover that reflects the image of a man punished by life and drugs, his body covered with tattoos and scars. Music content that freezes the blood drive, the music is the same, sound, articulation, attack of the instrument .. everything is like before the horror of the prison, is his life and the artist does not want to hide. In 1978, he recorded for the Galaxy label, "Today", his masterpiece at the end of his career, a perfect album on the cover of the album, again, the look of a man marked by suffering, isolation and lack of joy. Four years later, Art Pepper died after more than a week in a coma in a hospital the victim of a cerebral hemorrhage.
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