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Ken Peplowski & the Emerald City Jazz Kings at John G Shedd Institute for the Arts
Courtesy of Saleah | Posted on August 28, 2014
Where
John G Shedd Institute for the Arts
868 High St
Eugene, OR
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(541) 434-7000
When
Fri, March 13, 2015
7:45 pm
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Art Pepper (1925-86) went down in jazz history as one of the greatest artists of the alto sax--combining a tender delicacy of tone with a purity of narrative line, he had a gift for storytelling that was made irresistible by an inherent dancing, shouting, moaning inability to ever stop swinging. Ken Peplowski welcomes Jesse Cloninger and the Emerald City Jazz Kings for an tribute to Pepper, with a special focus on his work with pianist/arranger/bandleader Marty Paich (1925-95), a relationship memorialized most notably with 1956's The Marty Paich Quartet featuring Art Pepper and the 1959 big band classics Art Pepper + Eleven, Marty Paich Big Band: Moanin', I Get A Boot Out Of You and The Broadway Bit...