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.

Monday, August 31, 2015

FREEBIE: Art's 90th: 2 TRACKS

FOR ONE WEEK ONLY; THEN IT'LL BE GONE! 
Art Pepper was born on September 1, 1925. In honor of his 90th birthday, I'm giving away TWO never-before-published tracks from a fabulous concert:

 In 1981 Art made his last tour of Japan with George Cables, David Williams, and Carl Burnett. Every gig was great. These TWO TRACKS, YES TWO! were recorded in Minano. Someday I'll have it all remastered and release the whole concert. But meanwhile, here you are, just in time for ART'S 90TH. Everything Happens to Me_AND_Straight Life!

P.S.
The WEBSITE is brand new. Click here & Hear Art's voice, his music, lotsa photos, lots of info.


P.P.S. AND THIS!

P.P.P.S. AND THEN THERE'S THIS....
Art Pepper was the muthafuckin' bomb. He played the saxophone like a fallen angel and wrote, with MsLaurie Pepper, one...
Posted by Jason Crane on Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Friday, August 7, 2015

It's My Party: MORE Repossessed Art Pepper!



It's my happy birthday month so I've got a present for everybody. Last month (was it last month?) I gave away the Art Pepper/Hampton Hawes Surf Club "Early Show" for $4.50.* This month I've got "The Late Show." Same price. I explained that the original issuer of these discs has never paid mechanicals for the great original tunes Art played that night at the Surf Club. So here you go.

*I'd like to add that I'm hoping to get a new completely UNRELEASED Art CD out by Spring of next year, 2016. And, unless something really spectacular lands on my doorstep in the next few months, it'll be Art Pepper and Warne Marsh. So if you can, please support the music by paying as much as is convenient for the freebies and the cheapo tracks and albums. THANKS.

P.S. Didn't he have the prettiest tone in the whole world? Yes. He did.
P.P.S. During the next few days I'm going to be "un-freeing" a lot of the freebies from previous months. So if you want to clean up, NOWSTHETIME