Smack Up [Bonus Tracks]

by Art Pepper, Art Pepper Quintet

Overview

The title of this recording, Smack Up is ironic and inadvertently truthful. Within a short period, Art Pepper would begin spending many years in jail due to his heroin addiction; this was his next-to-last album from that period. Despite the bleak future, the great altoist (who never seemed to make an uninspired record during his unstable life) is in excellent form in a quintet with trumpeter Jack Sheldon, pianist Pete Jolly, bassist Jimmy Bond, and drummer Frank Butler. Highlights of this fine album include Harold Land's title cut, the five/four blues "Las Cuevas de Mario," and Ornette Coleman's "Tears Inside." [Some reissues add two takes of the otherwise unknown "Solid Citizens."] ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	08/11/2017
Label:	Essential Jazz Classics
UPC:	8436542010528
Rank:	96390

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Art Pepper Quintet   Primary Artist
Art Pepper   Primary Artist,Sax (Alto)
Jack Sheldon   Guest Artist,Trumpet
Jimmy Bond   Bass
Frank Butler   Drums
Pete Jolly   Piano

Technical Credits

Duane Tatro   Composer
Benny Carter   Composer
Jack Montrose   Composer
Kirk Felton   Mastering,Digital Remastering
Leonard Feather   Liner Notes
Lester Koenig   Producer
Roy DuNann   Engineer
Ornette Coleman   Composer
Art Pepper   Composer
Buddy Collette   Composer
Harold Land   Composer