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Biography

Gardena, Los Angeles CA, United States (1925 – 1982)

Art Pepper (Arthur Edward Pepper Jr., Gardena, California, September 1, 1925 – Los Angeles, California, June 15, 1982), was an American alto saxophonist.

He began his career in the 1940s, playing with Benny Carter and Stan Kenton (1946-52). By the 1950s Pepper was recognized as one of the leading alto saxophonists in jazz, epitomized by his finishing second only to Charlie Parker as Best Alto Saxophonist in the Down Beat magazine Readers Poll of 1952.

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1	You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To	117
2	Straight Life	86
3	You Go To My Head	72
4	Imagination	61
5	Waltz Me Blues	55
6	Jazz Me Blues	52
7	Tin Tin Deo	51
8	Red Pepper Blues	50
9	Birks Works	48
9	Star Eyes	48
11	Mambo De La Pinta	26
12	Blues In	22
13	All The Things You Are	19
14	Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered	18
15	Tickle Toe	17