Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol. 1: The Complete Abashiri Concert - November 22, 1981

Despite his precarious health, wrecked by decades of doping, Art Pepper was performing and recording at a furious pace during his last seven years, trying to make up for lost time. There is a tremendous amount of material already issued from those years - and since this initial release from Laurie Pepper's label Widow's Taste is designated Vol. 1, there must be much more on the shelf. Hopefully the rest of the booty is as good as this one, a souvenir of Art's last tour of Japan, where he had become the country's No. Read More