Art Pepper Unreleased Art, Vol 1 The Complete Abashiri Concert

Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol 1: The Complete Abashiri Concert - November 22, 1981 (2006) [repost]

Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol 1: The Complete Abashiri Concert - November 22, 1981 (2006)
Jazz | 2cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
Widow's Taste, APMC 06001 | rec: 1981 | 740Mb

But the new 1981 recording is all but unprecedented. (The album begins with pianist George Cables's solo already in progress and with the instruments momentarily offmic, and there are occasional audio artifacts of the whole concert having come from a cassette source; after the first minute, though, the sound is fine.) Just when you think Pepper is prepared to stretch the melody as far as it will go, he abandons the rest of the tune and slips effortlessly into an improvisation, returning to Jenkins's tune at the end of the first chorus.
Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol. 1- The Complete Abashiri Concert (1981) {2CD Set, Widow's Taste APMC06001 rel 2006}

Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol. 1- The Complete Abashiri Concert (1981) {2CD Set, Widow's Taste APMC06001 rel 2006}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 718 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 261 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 24 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1981, 2006 Widow's Taste | APMC 06001
Jazz / Bebop / Cool / West Coast Jazz / Jazz Blues / Saxophone

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 Pepper's last tour of Japan, where he had become the country's number one jazz alto sax star even before he returned to performing.