Straight Life (Art Pepper album)


Straight Life is a 1979 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Tommy Flanagan, Red Mitchell, Billy Higgins and Kenneth Nash.
Some versions have the bonus track "Long Ago ".

Title Track

Pepper's composition "Straight Life" is a contrafact of "After You've Gone", and it was also recorded for Pepper's 1957 album Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section. Pepper re-used the title for his 1979 autobiography Straight Life. Pepper was not the only jazz musician to use the title. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and organist Jimmy Smith both released albums and compositions unrelated to Pepper's with the title "Straight Life".

Track listing

  1. "Surf Ride" – 6:57
  2. "Nature Boy" – 9:55
  3. "Straight Life" – 4:09
  4. "September Song" – 11:00
  5. "Make A List" – 9:46

    Personnel