Art Pepper - Neon Art: Volume Two

Omnivore Recordings has partnered with Widow’s Taste Records, Laurie Pepper’s own label, to release a series of live recordings titled Neon Art. These albums are aimed at both the longtime Art Pepper aficionado and those just coming to know Art’s work. “Our mission is to introduce unreleased and unheard Art to people who love him, as well as to people who don’t yet know him,” says Laurie Pepper. “Art hated the idea that people put jazz in a pigeonhole. He wanted to make people forget the categories and ‘make them open up and listen.’”

Neon Art: Volume Two is drawn from a 1981 concert tour in Japan.

    Mambo Koyama (Recorded at Koseinenkin Hall, Sapporo, Japan, November 19, 1981)
    Over The Rainbow (Recorded at Shakai Kyoiku Center, Tottori, Japan, November 13, 1981)
    Allen’s Alley (Recorded at Shibuya Public Hall, Tokyo, Japan, November 24, 1981)