Comments on: Back to eBay: Monk, Byrd, Pepper

By: adamski

adamski — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:42:13 +0000

thanks chaps, plenty of good stuff to ready for this years holiday…

By: Joe L

Joe L — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:55:45 +0000

Ascension is good. Focused, but a lot of interesting detail.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:47:07 +0000

I remember being very impressed reading Lush Life. Great story and great research. Many people had problems with Bird Lives, but I liked it, sort of must-reading as well.

By: Earl

Earl — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:20:38 +0000

Hampton Hawes “Raise Up off Me” is a classic

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:07:46 +0000

“Chasin’ The Trane” is good.

By: ADAMSKI

ADAMSKI — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:17:15 +0000

Man…’Straight Life’ is a FANTASTIC read, not always easy, but a great story, as you say Al, slightly embellished with a few dubious facts but a smashing read and not the normal mundane autobiog. I must dig it out and give it another spin. A very interesting bloke was our Art and what a musician!
Talking of books, Ive read the Miles and the Mingus’ ‘Beneath the underdog’, Dr John’s under a hoodoo moon…are there any others that hit the same heights??? Anyone please?

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:26:53 +0000

“Modern Art” you mean? I guess you could blame the memory being a bit off on the heavy heroin use. Also, he maybe wasn’t the most reliable person in the world, with or without heroin. He was a genius though. And one of my all time favourites.

By: JOK

JOK — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:45:02 +0000

Art Pepper recorded “Modern Life” for Intro records 22 days before “meets the rhythm section”. He also was on Joe Morello’s “Collections” on Intro records two weeks prior.

Pepper’s memory obviously faltered a bit.