Art Pepper’s ‘Last Concert’ To Be Released

By I May. 3, 2007

Widow’s Taste will release Art Pepper’s The Last Concert on May 30 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Pepper’s last concert, which took place May 30, 1982, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Ten days after the performance, Pepper was hospitalized with a cerebral hemorrhage. He died June 15, 1982.

The set list is comprised of three originals—“Landscape,” “Ophelia,” “Mambo Koyama”—and the standards “Over the Rainbow” and “When You’re Smiling,” a clarinet feature dedicated to Zoot Sims, who shared the evening’s bill at the Kennedy Center with Pepper.

The Last Concert is the second in a series of unreleased art projects documenting the late alto saxophonist’s work.

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