Happy Birthday Art

Friends of Bluely Noted know that while many artists are on our list of favorites, Art Pepper is at the top of the pyramid with only a select few. We challenge you to find a better version of this Harold Arlen/E.Y. Harburg classic.

Somebody really ought to make Straight Life, Pepper’s autobiography, the finest jazz book ever written, into a motion picture.

“Over The Rainbow” (1978)