This release presents 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 sidemen in January 1961 he entered San Quentin and wouldn’t record again until May 1964, or lead a studio date until 1973). As a bonus, the only tune from the soundtrack of the film The Subterraneans by a quintet co-led by Pepper and Sheldon, as well as a complete 1959 nonet session, featuring both musicians in the esteemed company of Chet Baker, Harold Land and Mel Lewis, among others.

PERSONNEL:

ART PEPPER alto sax
JACK SHELDON trumpet
PETE JOLLY piano
JIMMY BOND bass
FRANK BUTLER drums

Los Angeles, October 24 & 25, 1960.

*Bonus Tracks (9-14):
On track 9: Art Pepper (as), Jack Russ Freeman (p), Red Mitchell. Los Angeles, summer 1959.
On tracks 10-14: Jack Sheldon, Chet Baker (tp), Art Pepper, Herb Geller (as),
Stu Williamson (v-tb),Harold Land (ts), Paul Moer (p, arr), Buddy Clark (b), Mel Lewis (d).
Los Angeles, March 6, 1959.Los Angeles, March 6, 1959.

Tracks
01 Smack Up
02 Las Cuevas De Mario
03 A Bit Of Basie
04 Solid Citizens
05 How Can You Lose?
06 Maybe Next Year
07 Tears Inside
08 Solid Citizens [Alt Tk]
09 Raising Caen*
10 Anyhow*
11 Julie Is Her Name*
12 Aplomb*
13 Sunset Eyes*
14 J.S. *

TOTAL TIME: 71:25