Every month

Every month I'll post a new "taste" of Art Pepper's music as a FREE DOWNLOAD. These tastes are given away because they are "unreleasable" by virtue of the recording being cut off at beginning or end or by brief audio problems that occurred in the recording process.

THEY'RE TOO STUNNING TO HIDE AWAY IN MY FILES AS YOU'LL SOON SEE.

I'll also post occasional journal entries including updates on new releases.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Soundtrack to "ART"


I figure most people are like me, they want to see pictures of the people they read about (so I've got lots of pictures) and they want to hear the MUSIC, too. 

And, like me, they might be a little lazy and not want to plow through the internet, looking for photographs and tracks.

These are specific tracks I talk about in my memoir,
a selection just for readers,
a download just for reference.
 (All tracks but one were beautifully, professionally recorded. I've licensed them from the companies that own them).

 Click HERE to download or stream the MUSIC (and to download the FREEBIE*). And click HERE to buy the book. And click HERE to buy Art Pepper CDs.

*AND AS A BONUS FOR COMING HERE.  ONE FREE TRACK.  LIVE, FROM ATLANTA, IT'S AN INCOMPLETE (part of bass solo missing) BUT BEAUTIFUL VERSION OF PATRICIA.


Monday, May 12, 2014

The MEMOIR is HERE! HUGE DISCOUNT
3 DAYS ONLY

Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman - ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman

STRAIGHT LIFE (at Amazon)
Published in 1979, Straight Life was the story of Art Pepper. He was a deeply troubled, madly gifted artist, an addict. Art told me his story, I wrote it down, and I fell in love with and married that complex and inspiring man. Straight Life, according to enthusiastic reviews in The New Yorker, Time, The Village Voice, etc. became (and remains) a classic. 

ART (at Amazon May 16, 2014)

In Straight Life Art cast himself as a lost, desperate genius and me, at the end, as his angel of rescue. During our marriage we worked successfully together to enact that story. But I was no angel, and we rescued each other. ART is a memoir of that marriage. This is a paperback book, 382 pages, 100 photos, and with a complete index

On May 16, the book will sell for $20

BUT RIGHT NOW

on May 13, 14, and 15

I'm selling it for 60% off. That's $8.00 
Go HERE, buy it, and when you check out
enter this discount code.  GF4UNB8B
It's only good for 3 days. 
Journalists, contact me for a super-deluxe discount code!

CONTACT LAURIE