At the end of July 1977, Art Pepper went into New York's Village Vanguard. Recordings of nine sets over three days at the club would be released years later as a nine-CD boxed set called the Complete Village Vanguard Sessions. It has been heralded as some of Pepper's finest late-career playing, and rightly so. But a month before his Vanguard run, Pepper…
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