When You're Smiling by Shay, Fisher, Goodwin
from ART: (music mentioned in) Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman (11 Tracks) by Art Pepper
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Recorded live at the Kool Jazz Festival at Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., in 1982 with Roger Kellaway, David Williams, Carl Burnett
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From the Memoir:
“I’m not done yet,” we all heard Art say. “I got more
time. I want to play another song.”
The audience began a chant of “more!”
“I’m not finished,” Art repeated. “I want to play just one
more song.”
They’d made a mistake. Some of “our” time had been
taken up by festival announcements. Art walked to the wings,
again pointing at his watch. The audience was getting mad,
but the invisible personage persuaded Art to end his set. Art
walked back to center stage, asked the audience to take the
disappointment graciously as he would try to do. He thanked
them all and said goodbye.
“When You’re Smiling” was the last song he ever played.
He played it on the clarinet, on his first horn, in his youngest
voice, and said he wasn’t done. Nine days later Art was in a
coma. Six days after that he died.
“I’m not done yet,” we all heard Art say. “I got more
time. I want to play another song.”
The audience began a chant of “more!”
“I’m not finished,” Art repeated. “I want to play just one
more song.”
They’d made a mistake. Some of “our” time had been
taken up by festival announcements. Art walked to the wings,
again pointing at his watch. The audience was getting mad,
but the invisible personage persuaded Art to end his set. Art
walked back to center stage, asked the audience to take the
disappointment graciously as he would try to do. He thanked
them all and said goodbye.
“When You’re Smiling” was the last song he ever played.
He played it on the clarinet, on his first horn, in his youngest
voice, and said he wasn’t done. Nine days later Art was in a
coma. Six days after that he died.
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from ART: (music mentioned in) Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman (11 Tracks),
released May 27, 2014
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Art Pepper Los Angeles, California
Born in 1925 in Gardena, CA, and raised in San Pedro, CA. Incredible life can't be summarized here! Read all about it in STRAIGHT LIFE at Amazon. Read what it was like being married to him in ART: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman. Amazon ditto.
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