Between 1980 and 1982, Art Pepper played with Bulgarian pianist Milcho Leviev alongside bassist Tony Dumas and drummer Carl Burnett. Leviev was a music director and pianist with Don Ellis and spent seven years with Billy Cobham. This group backed Pepper on his very first European tour. They initially played a triumphant fortnight stand in London at Ronnie Scott’s. (Those gigs were released in the box set Blues for the Fisherman, in 2010.) An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert picks up the afternoon after the Scott’s residency ended at 1:30 a.m. — the quartet performed just 123 hours later as the closing act at Norway’s Konigsberg Jazz Festival. Laurie Pepper, Art’s widow and curator, teamed with Zev Feldman, the Kongsberg Jazz Festival archives,…
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