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Art Pepper: Blues for the Fisherman

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Marc Myers
Jun 14, 2011
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Today Laurie Pepper, Art Pepper's widow, has released a four-CD set of Pepper performing in London at Ronnie's Scott's on June 27 and 28, 1980, two years before the alto saxophonist's death. It may well be the finest recording of late Pepper released on Laurie Pepper's Widow's Taste label.

There are two reasons for this: First, despite Pepper's history o…

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