Art Pepper believed that jazz is passion. Technique and skill in improvisation are important of course, and wit and swing and prettiness. But it was in the passionate expression of emotion, of joy, grief, rage, frustration, bliss, and longing that his music found its echo in his hearers’ hearts. Gaspare’s creation, the Art Pepper Legacy, is a child of his passion for the music he feels so profoundly that he has invested his whole self in carrying on Art’s emotional legacy. The feeling and the beauty are there and he brings to it the most important thing of all. His love.