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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

Art Pepper at the LA Museum of Art 📷 Ray Avery, 1954 "If I can last till I'm 65, there's no question that I'll be the new voice, the first time a white guy has been the inspiration for the whole jazz world" Pepper lost most of the 50s & 60s to drugs & jail; he died in 1982 at 56

Pepper in a suit & tie, holding his saxophone
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

Art Pepper & Bob Cooper playing with Stan Kenton's band, 1950. Another shot by Bob Willoughby. Pepper finished second only to Charlie Parker as Best Alto Saxophonist in the DownBeat magazine Readers Poll of 1952. What a band! youtube.com/watch?v=EAsI...

The two saxophonists add to the Kenton sound
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