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(Visually Graded) Vinyl looks Near Mint and sleeve looks EX. See pics and info for details.

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 Art Pepper Quintet – Smack Up

Label:    Original Jazz Classics – OJC-176, Contemporary Records – C-7602
Format:    12", 33RPM, Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country:    US
Released:    1984
Genre:    Jazz
Style:    Bop, Cool Jazz

Tracklist

A1        Smack Up
4:14
A2        Las Cuevas De Mario
7:06
A3        A Bit Of Basie
7:23
B1        How Can You Lose
6:52
B2        Maybe Next Year
4:20
B3        Tears Inside
7:42

Notes / Credits
 
    Alto Saxophone – Art Pepper
    Bass – Jimmy Bond
    Design [Cover] – Kershaw*
    Drums – Frank Butler
    Engineer – Roy DuNann
    Liner Notes – Leonard Feather
    Photography By [Cover] – William Claxton
    Piano – Pete Jolly
    Producer – Lester Koenig
    Trumpet – Jack Sheldon

Recorded October 24 & 25, 1960 at Contemporary Records in Los Angeles.

- Smack Up is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Jack Sheldon, Pete Jolly, Jimmy Bond and Frank Butler.

Leonard Feather's sleeve notes include two quotes by Pepper which throw light on his approach to playing jazz:

    "Knowing the relationships of chords to one another, how they fit into sequences and how you build on them, all reminds you that there's an important relationship between mathematics and music."

    "The way a man walks, the way he talks, the timbre of his voice, the cadences of his speech, his little variations in phrasing a thought — all have so much to do with individuality. The same thing is true of a man's playing in jazz... his tone, the way his sound moves, his feeling for time. That's why jazz is consistently fascinating. You could ask six guys to play an identical solo, but when you heard the results, you'd hear six different solos."

The album consists of compositions written by saxophonists. -wikipedia

- bio - Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982)[1] was an American alto saxophonist and very occasional tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. Active in West Coast jazz, Pepper came to prominence in Stan Kenton's big band. He was known for his emotionally charged performances and several stylistic shifts throughout his career, and was described by critic Scott Yanow as having "attained his goal of becoming the world's great altoist" at the time of his death. - wikipedia

  By the 1950s, Pepper was recognized as one of the leading alto saxophonists in jazz, finishing second only to Charlie Parker as Best Alto Saxophonist in the DownBeat magazine Readers Poll of 1952. Along with Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, and Shelly Manne, and perhaps due more to geography than playing style, Pepper is often associated with the musical movement known as West Coast jazz, as contrasted with the East Coast (or "hot") jazz of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Some of Pepper's best known albums from the 1950s are Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics, Gettin' Together, and Smack Up.[4] Other recordings from this time appear on The Aladdin Recordings (three volumes), The Early Show, The Late Show, Surf Ride, and Art Pepper with Warne Marsh (also issued as The Way It Was!), which features a session recorded with Warne Marsh.

His career was repeatedly interrupted by several prison stints stemming from his addiction to heroin, but Pepper managed to have several productive "comebacks". Remarkably, his substance abuse and legal travails did not affect the quality of his recordings, which maintained a high level of musicianship throughout his career until his death in 1982. -wikipedia


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