Art Pepper: 'Gettin' Together' (1960)

I love feathery Art Pepper. His light tone and tip-toeing approach in the 1950s was as gentle and edgy as the Pacific coast. For me, it's his signature sound. In later years, his playing became more abstract and Coltrane-esque in an attempt to become relevant again following a prison term.

Gettin' Together was emblematic of Pepper's feathery blowing styl…