Art Pepper: Notes From a Jazz Survivor - DVD
This late-career record of the jazz musician Art Pepper is an engaging if limited biographical portrait. Pepper talks openly about his problems with drugs and his criminal pursuits; there are also a few vintage stills and some impressionistic footage of his old L.A. neighborhoods. When Pepper talks fondly of the physical sensations from shooting heroin, it's eloquent testimony to the power of that drug. What really anchors the film are his unstinting tributes to his third wife, Laurie, who appears...
