Art Pepper never had enough time. From the moment he put the alto saxophone in his mouth in the 1940s, Pepper was in a hyperactive hurry to record, to play gigs, to get press, to stand out. He seemed to be hounded by the clock and a dread that he was on borrowed time. The result could leave him uncertain and uneasy. By the late 1970s, Pepper faced a sim…
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