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Aw i've gotta stay away from all these jazz boards. I always wind up offended and then I get salty. Can't help it. Goodbye forever.

This is a different version than the one played in Melbourne. I think it's better. But haven't listened to the Melbourne tracks in quite a while. A Melbourne fan, thinking he was doing Art a favor, slipped Art some pills which combined with whatever Art was drinking to affect the quality of the music not for the better. That's what I recall anyway and why I haven't listened. Have released 9 complete albums on CD. Find them at Amazon and CD Baby. http:bit.ly//BuyArtPepper. There are even more cds and LPs offered by Omnivore. I offer the freebies and nearly-freebies (single tracks) as a FAVOR to fans and am kinda surprised to find folks complaining about them--looking into this gift horses mouth. These folks are entitled not to download them, of course.

Funny, Danasgoodstuff! Sorry nothing with Buddy Rich.

The tunes suggested here were all suggested by Pepper fans on FB. But the consensus is it's I Got Rhythm. With Kaye a liilttle variation in the bridge.

I always owned them. Licensed them to Fantasy/Concord. License is ended. LP Didn't see this. That's what happened. LP No. At least he didn't think so and I never heard him mention Tristano. Think Tristano was too cerebral for a guy who grew up jamming on Central Ave. & started with Lee Young. Not to say Warne doesn't swing! He does. The Art & Jack Montrose stuff which I love madly, esp the unison stuff, sounds like Dixieland to me. Thanks! LP

Sorry, the PDF is gigantic, couldn't post that & no way to make it downloadable from bandcamp without downloading the whole thing. And YES, the LAJI (from whom I got the tracks) has a limited number of (hard copy) giveaways for members: Here the list of players I posted on the bandcamp site: Archived material collected by The L.A. Jazz Institute. See the Notes for details (PDF included) Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Shelly Manne, Conte candoli, Bill Russo, Warne Marsh, Ronnie Ball, Ben Tucker, Gary Frommer, Carl Perkins, Frank Capp, Al Porcino, Jack Sheldon, Med Flory, Russ Freeman, Joe Mondragon, Mel Lewis, Paul Chambers, Wynton Kelly, Pete Jolly, Dolo Coker, AND MORE

Sorry about the photos, folks. The reproductions REALLY distressed me when I first saw proofs; they looked like gray soup. So I punched them up. A lot. I was informed that to properly reproduce a black and white photo with a full range of tones you need to use a COLOR press. And coated paper. Which is too pricey for any of us. I researched it. I mean, do you want to pay $100 a copy? Didn't think so. The photos in the EBOOK look REALLY good, and some are in color. Check it out on Amazon. I think it's about $9, ditto iBooks, Nook, etc.

Okay, okay. You're right, I'm too thin skinned. If I'm gonna say stuff like "Why I stuck…" and so on, I can expect to hear about it. Thanks for the baptism. I'm ready for my closeup, now. BTW, a facebook friend interviewed Art and me about a month before Straight Life was published, and he just posted this snippet about Art's hopes for reactions to THAT book. Much more sensible (and only he said it in less than a minute). http://blog.bobrosenbaum.com/private/85054390320/tumblr_n582watwtw1rom4l7

Damn! Remind me to read these posts whenever I start feeling too good about myself. I KNEW this would happen, but not so FAST! Makes my head spin. Okay, some of you weren't so poisonous, but you know what we human beings pay attention to. You are the MEAN BOYS.

Yes, yes, I appreciate all the folks who've wanted to make sure this is legit. It is. Totally. I'm not up to putting out vinyl, but my friends at Omnivore thought this would be a good idea, and I agreed. These are beautiful albums - to look at and to listen to. In about a year, I'll be releasing all three on cd (on Widow's Taste). L.P.

Every month I post a new free (any format) download for Art Pepper fans. This month, I decided to to do something different. I'm also making the original sheet music available, with all quartet parts AND the separate re-written alto part (Art decided the original was too hard to play). It's all free, so go to Widow's Taste Blog.

Hi, all. Well, well. I'm planning on releasing the CD Box set in April/May of 2011. I'm only PLANNING to release the material professionally (and expertly) recorded by Mole, so my cd release will be the equivalent of this Pure Pleasure LP release and will contain only those two nights (mine might contain a little more of Art's talking between tunes). BUT if you want to send me copies of the stuff you have, of the preceding days, I'd love to hear it. I'd LOVE to have it. 'Cause I don't have it. —Laurie P April/May 2011, Laurie P See my other posts about the date, etc. Laurie can release the CD version. Yes, it IS highly approved!! Laurie P

Thanks, friends. No wonder I couldn't find it. Wrong band! A guy named Scott at Mosaic Records researched it after I got in touch with Michael Cuscuna. He wrote to Cuscuna: "I think this person is getting Edmond Hall mixed up with Sidney Bechet. The YPR record she’s probably looking for is called “Jazz Band” and features Teddy Wilson, Ed Hall, Jimmy Crawford, Buck Clayton and Eddie Safranski. She can search and get a CDR at www.kiddierekordking.com." BTW, that site is WONDERFUL. I'm buying an mp3. L.

I'm looking for some really arcane info about SIDNEY BECHET. When I was seven I had a record telling "the story of jazz" by the Young People's Record Club. On my windup victrola, I wore that thing OUT, dropping the needle again and again at the point where Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feet Warmers began to play. My question: What were they playing? Even if you have no idea (I said it was arcane info), if you can suggest some other places to ask this question I'd be so grateful. P.S. This would have been '47 or '48.

Gotta chime in. I was Art's manager, ran his publishing company (which I created), and I affiliated him with BMI. I worked with him on the book, Straight Life, and that helped resuscitate his career (and incidentally, made more of his music available to more people). I handled his contracts and He relied on me 24/7. I took care of him. Like many artists, Art had some serious (and lifelong) mental problems. If I could have persuaded the State of California to confiscate his driver's license, I would have done it. I did try. Before he died Art told me that he was glad to be leaving me "well provided for." Because I would be his widow, and he was an oldfashioned guy. You ask good questions, "It Should Be..." Would I have been at fault, and ought I to have been punished if he HAD hurt somebody? When there was nothing I could do to prevent it? Or are the record companies and publishing companies of old the only ones who should have be permitted to benefit from the work of artists and musicians? Because if there's no-one to inherit, that's who winds up with everything. And should wives not benefit from the work of their husbands? No matter what that work is? And, shouldn't husbands benefit vice versa? Isn't marriage a partnership? And what about the kids? Should no one ever inherit anything on the basis of familial or marital ties? I'm not being snide, those are really good questions. Andrew Carnegie, I believe, left everything to his projects and charities. But speaking for myself, I'm grateful everyday that my husband left me with a catalog of tunes and recordings (that lots of people love and can't get enough of.) And I'm more grateful than I can say that he never hurt anyone besides himself. -- Laurie

Try this site: http://us1.campaign-...22&e=461be16ff4 Or try THIS, enter password "stuttgart" L. It's the soulful, wonderful Jack Sheldon

Laurie, please check the link under HERE; I got a "Domain not found" error message. So far you're the only one this has happened to! Click on the link and enter the password, "suttgart" Here's the link: https://auth.me.com/authenticate?service=files&returnURL=aHR0cDovL2ZpbGVzLm1lLmNvbS9ub3dzdGhldGltZS83bzhkbXEubXAzP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9QXJ0K1BlcHBlcitGYW5zJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1hOTc4OTIxYTIyLVRoZV9FYXJseV9SZWxlYXNlX29mX1N0dXR0Z2FydDVfNl8yMDEwJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWw=&ssoNamespace=password:%2019cb985d61e4ab18df9dc58a74369b36@nowsthetime&anotherUser=Y&desc=MDVfSGlzdG9yaWFfZGVfdW5fQW1vci5tcDM=

Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Volume V, Stuttgart. Two Disc Set released Today by Widow's Taste Art Pepper, Milcho Leviev, Bob Magnusson, Carl Burnett Hear a full track at http://artpepper.net Hear an almost full track at http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ShI3CTcIEXQ Freebie and info HERE

Hello, all! I'm about to release the fifth album (2 disc set) in the Unreleased Art Pepper series on Widow's Taste. It includes both sets of the concert in Stuttgart on May 25th, 1981. The music is sublime. I was there, but my memory bank is empty. I have no photos of this concert featuring Milcho Leviev, Bob Magnusson, Carl Burnett. It sounds like a big concert hall. Was anybody there? Does anybody know where the concert was held? Any memories whatsoever?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/arts/music/26play.html Keep up the wonderful work Laurie... I look forward to the next (hopefully 2CD) set...! Thanks for coming to my defense! Harsh smarsh, I'm in the Times, and it was, on the scale of things, a good review. BTW, I still insist that emphasis of this set is on history rather than unreleased. But for anyone interested in amount of new material in proportion to previously released, see attachment. Turns I was right about 1/3 unreleased. released__unreleased.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/arts/music/26play.html

Thanks so much to you. It's people like you who keep me going. Next will probably be a one or two disc live set. I've got a stunning video from a festival in Kongsberg in Sweden? and the music is monumental. Seriously. I'm trying to get hold of a guy named Gert Avelin who produced it. Also, I've got some super tracks from a gig in Stuttgart, and just got some tracks I'm told are marvelous from Adelaide. Haven't heard them yet. Seems like I usually put out the new ones in May, June. I think it'll be a single cd, tho. I wiped myself out financially (temporarily I hope) with this one. Kongsberg is in Norway. This must have been from the Kongsberg Jazz Festival. Could it be this concert? Art Pepper Quartet Art Pepper (as), Milcho Leviev (p), Tony Dumas (b), Carl Burnett (dms) June 1980 - Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Kongsberg Here is a link to information on a short film from the festival that year: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natl...16/default.html This festival is very much still going strong: http://www.kongsberg-jazzfestival.no/sider...mal=nyhetsliste Thanks, THANKS. Yes, that's the one. The 30 minute film included a little bit of the interview with Art and a bit of performance. But there was a full set of Art with that band and with commentary that was aired on Swedish TV. I have it on DVD but it's not a good copy and much of the music is interrupted by talking. I'm hoping to get hold of a better copy of that longer film in better condition.

Thanks so much to you. It's people like you who keep me going. Next will probably be a one or two disc live set. I've got a stunning video from a festival in Kongsberg in Sweden? and the music is monumental. Seriously. I'm trying to get hold of a guy named Gert Avelin who produced it. Also, I've got some super tracks from a gig in Stuttgart, and just got some tracks I'm told are marvelous from Adelaide. Haven't heard them yet. Seems like I usually put out the new ones in May, June. I think it'll be a single cd, tho. I wiped myself out financially (temporarily I hope) with this one.

One night coming home from a gig, we had the classical station on in the car. Art insisted on sitting in the driveway until the song was over. It was so beautiful Art had to know what it was. It was Kathleen Ferrier singing Brahms's Alto Rhapsody.