Get Hold Of Art: Why I Stuck With A Junkie Jazzman Composed By Laurie Pepper Released As Readable Copy
Pepper's writing is just as beautiful as her husband's music: frank and beautiful, There is a great deal of street sense and brilliant depth of understanding, I thought this was really well done and that it worked well as a counterpart to Straight Life, Straight Life which I also reviewed here is one of the greatest jazz autobiographies of alltime and this recentlypublished autobiography from Art's last wife and the person who recorded what Art said and actually wrote it down in Straight Life is a marvellous companion to it.
Laurie truly believed in Art despite his many many, many, many faults and saw his as a musical genius he was truly one of the greatest players of alto and soprano sax of all time.
This book offers insight of course into how they met and a different albeit subjective perspective on Art's rough and tumble life and into the various rehab communities in the LA area.
I imagine that DFW would have loved this had he lived long enough to read it and compare these experiences to those he invented for Enfield,
In any case, a fantastic book to read after you finish Straight Life, A wonderful easy to read story of a love that conquered the very many diverse challenges thrown at it, . two people who were made to share the time they did together, A story of a genius musician who was also an alcoholic, a drug addict and a very needy person and a woman who loved him for who he was, all his faults and his needs and wants, and the time they shared.
A story of their highs and their lows, their joys and their despairs, . . all from her perspective his perspective is detailed in the book Straight Life,
Engrossing from the first page a book that holds your attention throughout,
A brilliantly crafted book Laurie Pepper, . .
An incredible companion piece to Straight Life, perhaps the definitive jazz autobiography, Laurie Pepper tells her side of the story, and what a story it was, A must for anyone with even a middling interest in jazz or Art Pepper, I'll admit it I sometimes buy reissues of Art Pepper material I already own if I learn that Laurie Pepper has written new notes for them, This is almostpages of the same, and that's a great thing: her writing is fresh, intelligent, insightful, and it reads beautifully, She has a true writer's eye for telling detail and conveys events wonderfully, She has been talking on Facebook about writing a book about her life without Art, and I'll gladly read it too, I may have come into her work because of Art's music, which I still treasure dearly, but I've continued to seek her work out because she's truly got a gift.
This is a great companion book to Straight Life, and provides additional insight into the personality and traits of Art Pepper, Laurie writes quite well, I had to force myself to slow down once or twice to enjoy the prose all those years at Uni and work taught me to read fast.
Art Pepper told his sexy, sordid, and exciting true adventure stories to his lover, Laurie, who put them in a book, She quizzed him and those who knew him unrelentingly over seven years, editing and structuring a narrative to which she dedicated all her energy, "Straight Life" by Art and Laurie Pepper Da Capo was published in, It was
critical success and remains a classic of its kind, the subject of college literary and music studies, Laurie went on to marry Art and manage his resurgent career, touring the world with his band,
"Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman" was the headline some editor gave a newspaper interview Laurie did while the band was in Australia in, and she's now stolen that "that perfect title" for her memoir.
"ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman " APMCorp, describes her marriage to the deeply troubled, drugaddicted, madly gifted artist, "That marriage was the making of me," says Laurie, "Some people go to grad school or join the Marines, I married a genius who valued and inspired me and challenged me to use MY gifts, We had a difficult, powerful partnership, I had to tell that story, " She says she also needs to set the record straight and clarify her role: "People think I was some kind of little wifeysaint who rescued him, And Art encouraged them in that, But he knew how truly crazy I could be, We rescued each other. "
On the outside looking in, we often ask why, Why would someone stay Laurie gives us more than a glimpse behind the closed door of the dysfunctional relationship that defined her, Brilliance often comes from a tortured soul, Laurie Pepper's pure and honest in telling her story, Laurie Pepper was born inin Los Angeles to a family of radicals and artists, She grew up in New York and Los Angeles, attended U, C. Berkeley, and was photographer for the legendary L, A. Free Press during thes but went astray and wound up in rehab where she met Art Pepper who told her his sexy, sordid, and exciting true adventure stories to her and she put them in a book.
She quizzed him and those who knew him unrelentingly over seven years, editing and structuring a narrative to which she dedicated all her energy, Straight Life by Art and Laurie Pepper Da Capo was published in, It was a critical success and remains a classic of its kind, the subject of college literary and music studies, Laurie went on to marry Art and ma Laurie Pepper was born inin Los Angeles to a family of radicals and artists, She grew up in New York and Los Angeles, attended U, C. Berkeley, and was photographer for the legendary L, A. Free Press during thes but went astray and wound up in rehab where she met Art Pepper who told her his sexy, sordid, and exciting true adventure stories to her and she put them in a book.
She quizzed him and those who knew him unrelentingly over seven years, editing and structuring a narrative to which she dedicated all her energy, Straight Life by Art and Laurie Pepper Da Capo was published in, It was a critical success and remains a classic of its kind, the subject of college literary and music studies, Laurie went on to marry Art and manage his resurgent career, touring the world with his band, "Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman" was the headline some editor gave a newspaper interview Laurie did while the band was in Australia in, and she's now stolen "that perfect title" for her memoir.
ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman APMCorp describes her marriage to the deeply troubled, drug addicted, madly gifted artist, "That marriage was the making of me," says Laurie, "Some people go to grad school or join the Marines, I married a genius who valued and inspired me and challenged me to use MY gifts, We had a difficult, powerful partnership, I had to tell that story, " She says she also needs to set the record straight and clarify her role: "People think I was some kind of little wifey saint who rescued him, And Art encouraged them in that, But he knew how truly crazy I could be, We rescued each other. " sitelink.