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Straight Life: Episode Four

Straight Life: Episode Four

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This is a long one, interviews with Art's stepmother Thelma Pepper, and with Sarah Schecter Bartold, the woman who raised Art's mother, Ida AKA Millie. Thelma talks about Art's grandmother and then about his mother. This is real American history, touching and inspiring.

Musical interludes and the music at the end, Art's original, Blues at Twilight, from The Art Pepper Quartet, recorded in 1956 with Russ Freeman, Ben Tucker, Gary Frommer. Available online at http://artpepper.bandcamp.com and from Omnivore Recordings.

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