Art Pepper

Smack Up (OJC-176)

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Smack Up

Art Pepper

Contemporary

888072370401

LPS 149536

OJC-176

JAZZ

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LP 29,98 €

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This realese contains Art Pepper’s complete original album "Smack Up" (Contemporary S7602). Recorded in a quintet format with trumpeter Jack Sheldon, "Smack Up" marks Pepper’s second to last album as a leader before entering prison to serve the longest of his drug-related sentences (after a short session as a sideman in January 1961 he entered San Quentin and wouldn’t record again until May 1964, or lead a studio date until 1973).

PERSONNEL:

  • Jack Sheldon - (trumpet)
  • Art Pepper- (alto sax)
  • Pete Jolly - (piano)
  • Jimmy Bond - (bass)
  • Frank Butler - (drums)

Los Angeles, October 24 & 25, 1960.

TRACKS:

  • SIDE A:
  • A1. Smack Up
  • A2. Las Cuevas De Mario
  • A3. A Bit Of Basie
  • SIDE B:
  • B1. How Can You Lose
  • B2. Maybe Next Year
  • B3. Tears Inside