Smack Up

by Art Pepper Quintet

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1960
  • Label: Contemporary
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 50:37
  • Community rating: 3.96/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Buddy Collette, Jack Sheldon, Pete Jolly, Benny Carter, Ornette Coleman, Harold Land, Frank Butler, Duane Tatro, Lester Koenig, Jimmy Bond

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded shortly before the alto saxophonist began a lengthy prison sentence for narcotics possession. The session uniquely consists entirely of compositions penned by fellow saxophonists, including Ornette Coleman and Benny Carter, signaling a stylistic shift away from West Coast cool toward muscular, angular bop.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, acoustic, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Smack Up (4:14)
  2. Las Cuevas De Mario (7:07)
  3. A Bit Of Basie (7:21)
  4. How Can You Lose (6:51)
  5. Maybe Next Year (4:21)
  6. Tears Inside (7:42)
  7. Solid Citizens - Take 33 (bonus track) (6:29)
  8. Solid Citizens - Take 37- (bonus track) (6:28)

Credits

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