14. Addiction, Rehabilitation, and Recovery Stories
Not all jazz tales end in tragedy—some musicians, like Art Pepper, battled their way through addiction to achieve remarkable comebacks. Pepper’s candid autobiography details the steep challenges of recovery in an industry rife with temptation and stress. Stories of rehabilitation reveal both the resilience required to reclaim one’s life and the ongoing difficulties of staying sober amid the relentless demands and pressures of the jazz world.
