On this day in 1957, Art Pepper recorded what many critics believe to be his masterpiece "Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section". The album features Art playing with Miles Davis' famous rhythm section from that era: Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. The story goes that Art Pepper was suffering from heroin addiction horribly at the time and was only told about the recording session that morning. According to Art's wonderful autobiography, Straight Life, he hadn't played in 6 months and had to piece together a broken horn for the session. Now under these circumstances you'd think the recording wouldn't have turned out so amazing, but as Marty Paich put it "(Art) gave his all, all the time. I never heard him lay back at any time. And that is an honest musician."
Here's the story in Art's own words, from Laurie Pepper's work in progress movie, "Straight Life",
starring James Intveld as Art Pepper:
"You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To":
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