Art Pepper(1925-1982)
- Music Department
- Actor
- Composer
A saxophonist, Art Pepper played briefly with
Gus Arnheim but most often played with black
groups in downtown Los Angeles. It was during the late 1940s and early
1950s that he became addicted to heroin, and during the 1960s he served
a few jail sentences. Pepper's wife wrote his biography, entitled
"Straight Life."