ART PEPPER: STRAIGHT LIFE EVERY SUNDAY

Bandleader Lee Young hired seventeen year old Art Pepper to play in his band at the Club Alabam on Central Avenue in Los Angeles. Lee describes young Art, and what the world was like before the war on Central,

Art describes jamming and performing on Central Avenue in the Club Alabam. American musical history from someone who got to live right in the heart of it.

ART QUITS THE COBRAS AND GETS INTO THE MUSIC THING

Art meets the love of his life (until me, of course). Incidental music is Art's tune, Patricia, performed in Nice in 1980. I'm pretty sure the band is Art, Milcho Leviev, Bob Magnusson, Carl Burnett

Art describes his early sexual experiences

Art's "cousin" Johnny talks about Art as a child and as a young man. He gives a fuller picture of Art's adventurous father and difficult mother and has shows a different side of Grandma. I apologize for being a few days late with this episode. I'm just starting this...

This is a long one, Interviews with Art's stepmother Thelma Pepper, and with Sarah Schecter Bartold, the woman who raised Art's mother, Ida AKA Millie. Thelma talks about Art's grandmother and then about his mother. This is American history, touching and inspiring.

At 9, Art starts performing in waterfront bars and gets paid. He keeps his father from throttling his grandmother. This episode is "explicit" in that it includes violence, and dirty words. Author's note: This is one of my favorite episodes. Music snippets heard here: Straight Life by Art Pepper: with Smith Dobson, Jim Nichols, Brad Bilhorn. Unreleased Art Pepper Volume VIII, live at the Winery—Wid...

In episode 1 Art described his violent parents and leaving them to live with his grandmother. In episode 2 he talks about his family and begins music lessons. This episode is "explicit" in that it includes violence, and dirty words

"Straight Life" — slang: THE TRUTH This episode is "explicit" in that sex and abortion are mentioned and it includes violence, and dirty words