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ART PEPPER,<br />
NEON ART VOL. 1,<br />
OMNIVORE OVLP-26.<br />
SIDE ONE: RED CAR (16:53).<br />
SIDE TWO: BLUES FOR<br />
BLANCHE (17:56).<br />
Art Pepper, as; Milcho Leviev,<br />
p; David Williams, b; Carl<br />
Burnett, d. 1/28/81. Seattle,<br />
WA. Total time:34:49.<br />
ART PEPPER,<br />
NEON ART VOL. 2,<br />
OMNIVORE OVLP-48.<br />
SIDE ONE: MAMBO<br />
KAYOMA(*) (18:38).<br />
SIDE TWO: OVER THE<br />
RAINBOW (#) (14:38) /<br />
ALLEN'S ALLEY(+) (9:17).<br />
Art Pepper, as; George<br />
Cables, p; David Williams, b;<br />
Carl Burnett, d. (*) 11/19/81.<br />
Sapporo,Japan. (#)11/13/81.<br />
Tottori,Japan (+) 11/24/81.<br />
Tokyo,Japan.Total time:42:33.<br />
112 | CadenCe Magazine | april May June 2013<br />
Feature Reissue on Vinyl<br />
ART PEPPER NEW VINYL REVIEW<br />
One of the more encouraging trends of recent years<br />
is the resurgence of vinyl records on the music<br />
marketplace. Long term record collectors like myself are<br />
overjoyed to see reissues and new releases available<br />
on 180 to 200 gram pure virgin vinyl and such specialty<br />
labels as founder Jack White's Third Man Records<br />
out of Nashville. Another great outlet for hot wax can<br />
be found under the Omnivore imprint based in Los<br />
Angeles which offers vinyl and cd pressings in many<br />
genres. Of supreme interest to readers of Cadence<br />
will be their first ventures into Jazz with the three LP<br />
vinyl-only release of Neon Art from the great altoist<br />
Art Pepper. Produced in conjunction with the Widow's<br />
Taste enterprise headed by his widow Laurie, these are<br />
superbly attractive pressings on colored vinyl, restored<br />
by Wayne Peet and mastered by Ron McMaster. All<br />
three volumes are made up of unissued recordings.<br />
The initial volume (1) is pressed up on bright red vinyl<br />
showcases two song taken from unreleased tapings at<br />
Parnell's club in Seattle, Washington, on 1/28/81 and<br />
features Pepper's original 4tet with the talented Milcho<br />
Leviev on piano along with the long term team of<br />
bassman David Williams and drummer Carl Burnett. The<br />
two selections add up to just under thirty-five minutes.<br />
“Red Car” is a medium up boogaloo with a twicerepeated<br />
call & response head. Art begins his solo by<br />
ruminating in the lower middle register and gets more<br />
busy as it progresses. It is peppered (no pun intended)<br />
with slurred runs, over-blown note flurries, double time<br />
snatches and random honks before it levels off toward<br />
the end of the ride. The intensity level comes back for<br />
the piano solo, Leviev shows off his Bulgarian Blues<br />
sensibility getting funky a la Gene Harris with a heavy,<br />
Gospel chord pattern exciting the listeners before<br />
Pepper re-enters with a paraphrased head figure which<br />
evolves into a second solo before a drum fanfare then<br />
an upright bass vamp leads into the theme reprise<br />
before a chop ending.<br />
Also with a twice repeated head riff (in unison with the<br />
pianist) “Blues For Blanche” is a medium walker finding<br />
the leader taking an extended slice centering around a
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