Art Pepper – Everything Happens To Me: 1959 – Live At The (Box)

Historic 4 hours of previously unissued 1959 live Art Pepper recorded at Vancouver, Canada’s legendary jazz club The Cellar.

The release of Art Pepper’s Everything Happens To Me: 1959 – Live At The Cellar is the stuff music archivists can only dream of finding. Recordings by an historic and important jazz artist, at a storied venue, at a time when the artist was making some of their most essential work. In this case, catching Pepper on tape at The Cellar in 1959 finds him in the midst of creating and straddling landmark releases like, Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section (1957), Modern Art (1957), Art Pepper + Eleven (1959) and Gettin’ Together (1960). Though Pepper was going through a down time, Vancouver, Canada’s jazz club, The Cellar was in full swing and in the middle of its seven-year run (1956-1963).

Dave Quarin, a saxophone player himself, managed The Cellar at the time, “The Cellar years were a good time for us,” Quarin states. “Th