Straight Life The Story of Art Pepper the rolling stones It began in a bedroom

It began in a bedroom in Naples

its birthplace and most important incubator was Detroit

Her life is tangled in myth--much of it of her own invention

Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out proposed a radical new future for rock music

and artists who both witnessed and themselves forged the history of hip-hop

Straight Life The Story of Art Pepper the rolling stones It began in a bedroomAuthors: Art Pepper, Laurie Pepper Art Pepper (1925 1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz book it is one of the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all autobiographies. This edition is updated with an extensive afterword by Laurie Pepper covering Art Pepper's last years, and a complete and up to date discography by Todd Selbert.