Living_Legend_(Art_Pepper_album)
Living Legend (Art Pepper album)
1975 studio album by Art Pepper
Living Legend is a 1975 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with pianist Hampton Hawes, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Shelly Manne.
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This was Art Pepper's "comeback" album, the first to be released after his long absence due to drug addiction and incarceration in San Quentin prison. Pepper had been finally released in 1966 and for a while only played tenor saxophone, showing how much of an influence John Coltrane had been on him in the intervening years. In 1968 Buddy Rich asked him to join his big band (on alto); Pepper borrowed an alto and, in his words, quoted in the sleeve notes to this album, "discovered I was able to say everything I wanted to say and I didn't have to sacrifice my individuality to be accepted or to be modern".
Following two operations for a ruptured spleen, Pepper moved into Synanon, a rehabilitation centre for recovering addicts, and began the slow return to full-time performing and recording.