Art Pepper - Las Cuevas De Mario (Official Visualizer)

Track from the Art Pepper Quintet's album "Smack Up" (1960).

This new reissue via Craft Recordings is continuing the acclaimed Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series that was originally launched in 2022 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of iconic west coast jazz label Contemporary Records.

About the album:
Smack Up is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Jack Sheldon (trumpet), Pete Jolly (piano), Jimmy Bond (bass) and Frank Butler (drums). Pepper left a legacy of innumerable appearances on records, but his sessions for Contemporary always seemed to find him in the best company and in the best shape. Here his impassioned alto sax is appropriately applied to the compositions of six saxophonists, among them Benny Carter, Ornette Coleman, and Pepper himself. The presence of Jack Sheldon in a rare performance as a small-group trumpeter was another stimulating factor in the album’s success.

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[NeilSiegel-zq]

This, Patricia and Diane are among my favorite Pepper compositions. What a voice on the alto. How he could reach into the soul of the alto and never sound saccharine

[stormyfeather]

Fantastic, wonderful, stupendous, MASTER BLUES player. What a marvellous trumpet too...