Movie Summary: [Music]

    Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor is an intensely personal, painfully revealing portrait of one of jazz' greatest alto saxophonists--a remarkably expressive soloist and composer who also was an addict, thief, alcoholic, womanizer and wildman. In candid interviews, he recounts his troubled marriages, dependence on drugs, prison terms, and luck in meeting his last wife, Laurie, an articulate, compassionate defender of her errant husband. Plus, for over half the film, Art leads a trio at a club date in Malibu. Tracks include "Red Car," "Patricia" and "Miss Who?"