Art Pepper - Notes from a Jazz Survivor / motion picture DVD

This is an intensely personal, painfully revealing portrait of one of jazz's greatest alto saxophonist, Art Pepper. A remarkable expressive soloist and composer who was also an addict, thief, womanizer and wildman. In candid interviews, he recounts his troubled marriages, dependence on drugs, prison terms, and luck in meeting his last wife, an articulate, compassionate defender of her errant husband.

'Notes From a Jazz Survivor' is one of jazz's most honest, open and searing jazz documentaries. Originally released in 1982, the documentary directed by Don McGlynn, and features concert footage from Pasquale's in Malibu, Calif., and from Boston in 1986. The quartet featured Art Pepper (as), Milcho Leviev (p), Bob Magnusson (b) and Carl Burnett (d) performing Red Car, Patricia, Miss Who? Our Song, Mambo Koyama and Ophelia.