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Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings

Programme offering advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings or adding to an existing one

Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.

Jazz Library: Art Pepper

12/06/2010

Art Pepper

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, Art Pepper

Alan Barnes joins Alyn Shipton to choose saxophonist Art Pepper's finest recordings.

Alan Barnes joins Alyn Shipton to choose saxophonist Art Pepper's finest recordings, and also reveals his remarkable talents on the clarinet, on the tenor sax and as a composer.

Despite a lifelong battle with narcotics, harrowingly related in his book "Straight Life", Art Pepper was one of the finest alto saxophonists in jazz. In this programme, British saxophonist Alan Barnes joins Alyn Shipton to choose Pepper's finest recordings, and also reveals the American's remarkable talents on the clarinet, on the tenor saxophone, and as a composer.

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