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Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor
1982 | 48m | English
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| Director: | Don McGlynn |
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| Saxophonist Art Pepper (1925-1982) lived the kind of jazz life only found in Hollywood movies. His prodigious talent led him to top gigs as a teenager, but drugs and attendant criminal activity knocked him out of commission for virtually all of the 1960s and early 1970s. This documentary, shot shortly after his searing memoir, {-Straight Life}, was published in 1979, shows Pepper in the full flower of a remarkable comeback. His third wife, Laurie, is featured prominently; they met in the drug treatment facility Synanon in 1969 and were married in 1974. She took over his business affairs and helped him write {-Straight Life}. Pepper tells his own story here, but the emphasis is on an evening's performance at a club in Malibu, with the musician in fine form, backed by a terrific trio. (Tom Wiener, Rovi) | |
| Release Date: | Dec 31, 1982 |
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| Director: | Don McGlynn |
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| Genres: | Crime, Documentary, Music |
| Keywords | jazz |
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Updated: Jan 31, 2026 Entered: Jun 23, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Art Pepper | Himself |
| Laurie Pepper | Herself |
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| Don McGlynn | Director |
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