[gary]

mcudahy was kind enough to post this on a thread about Art but I just thought it should get top billing since I feel it's so significant I started this thread dedicated to Lauri's project.

What I think is cool is that Laurie Pepper is making a film about Art. And then posting clips on YouTube. I was really struck by the film making, the mix of his voice with the music, the photos, memories... it's well done. And not like the usual jazz documentary (not that there's anything wrong with those, necessarily). I was sceptical when I heard about this film (NPR's "All Things Considered" had a story on it yesterday: "Art Pepper's Straight Life Goes Straight to YouTube"). But when I watched the clips, I liked what she was doing very much. BTW, the voice-overs of Art talking are from the same cassette tapes that formed the basis of the book, Straignt Life.

Here are some videos used in the upcoming bio.

 

[gary]

cross referenced: http://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthread.php?t=71409

don't know how the mods want to handle this.

 

[RootyTootoot]

Brilliant. Thank you and thanks to mcudahy as well.

 

[Augman]

Cool stuff, He had an interesting life that ive read about. Id like to see this film al together sometime. Have you heard his "Over the rainbow"?