Rifftides is on the back burner for a few days. The proprietor is
immersed in annotating an extensive project involving Art Pepper’s early recordings for the Contemporary label. Details will follow—eventually. For now, here’s the alto saxophonist from a 1960 session. Pepper (1925-1982) once said that his playing on this version of “Autumn Leaves†was “an example of me at my best.â€
Art Pepper with Dolo Coker, piano; Jimmy Bond, bass; and Frank Butler, drums, November, 1960, Los Angeles.
P.S. Jim Pepper’s inclusion in the Related section below is purely because of ” the coincidence of the last name he shared with Art. They were not related and, to the best of my knowledge, never played together.