Name: Smack Up by Art Pepper Quintet
Brand: Art Pepper Quintet
SKU: 2521848662
Price: 7.92 USD
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.5 (56 reviews)

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Smack Up

04:14

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Las Cuevas De Mario

07:07

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A Bit Of Basie

07:21

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How Can You Lose

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Maybe Next Year

04:21

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Tears Inside

07:42

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Solid Citizens

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Solid Citizens

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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."]
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