New release: Art Pepper in Stuttgart--1981

[Ron S]

Art Pepper

Unreleased Art

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Widow's Taste Records is delighted to announce...

...the latest in the collectors' series of Unreleased Art Pepper recordings.

Volume V, Stuttgart (1981) with Milcho Leviev, Bob Magnusson, and Carl Burnett (a 2 disc set), will be released on May 18th (or sooner: I'll keep in touch).

These performances have not been heard, except by those who were at the concert and those people who've been trading sub-rosa recordings over the years. (They're the people we have to thank for THIS material!) And even for those mad collectors, the exceptional remastering by Wayne Peet may make this feel new to them, too.

As usual, Art Pepper put his whole heart and soul and all his art into this concert, and it's hot, cool, swinging, soulful, rough, funky, and just ridiculously beautiful. This band had been on the road together for more than two years. Their communication with each other within the evolution of this music was magical and always surprising.

So this is the announcement. I'll send you all a brief heads up when the album gets to CDBaby.

[tranemonk]

thanks Ron... looks good!

[GA Russell]

We live in a time when artists release an album only once a year or even less frequently. Laurie's releasing of these multi-disc sets increases the output to the level of the time when two or three albums (that is to say 120 minutes of music) a year was the norm!