Art Pepper Quintet – Smack Up (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:09 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Smack Up is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with trumpeter Jack Sheldon, pianist Pete Jolly, bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Frank Butler.
Leonard Feather’s sleeve notes include two quotes by Pepper which throw light on his approach to playing jazz:
“Knowing the relationships of chords to one another, how they fit into sequences and how you build on them, all reminds you that there’s an important relationship between mathematics and music.”
“The way a man walks, the way he talks, the timbre of his voice, the cadences of his speech, his little variations in phrasing a thought — all have so much to do with individuality. The same thing is true of a man’s playing in jazz… his tone, the way his sound moves, his feeling for time. That’s why jazz is consistently fascinating. You could ask six guys to play an identical solo, but when you heard the results, you’d hear six different solos.”
The album consists only of compositions written by saxophonists.
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Art Pepper – Stardust (1985/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:53 minutes | 815 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings
Originally reissued as part of the Promise Kept: The Complete Artist House Recordings boxed set, now available separately . LP contains the original 4 tracks – CD/Digital include an additional 6 bonus tracks . Remastered by Grammy? winner Michael Graves, with vinyl cut by Jeff Powell Producer John Snyder had always wanted to record Pepper and booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York. At the time, Pepper was under contract to Contemporary Records and label head, Les Koenig, decided he would record the gigs, quashing any notion Snyder had of doing the same. However, Art promised Snyder that he’d record an album for Snyder’s label, Artists House, at some point down the road. Together they wound up making four. Here again on vinyl, CD & Digital are the original albums drawn from these sessions, lovingly recreated in their original form, remastered by Grammy? winner Michael Graves and recut by Jeff Powell. Stardust (originally issued in 1985) features Pepper’s takes on Hoagy Carmichael title track, Duke Ellington’s “In A Mellow Tone,” and more. The CD and Digital add six bonus performances from the sessions. “John and Art both kept their promises. John brought Art into the wider world; he put him on the road. Just as he said he would, he brought him to New York and to the Village Vanguard, got his picture in the papers, got him on the radio. From Art, John got his dearest wish. He made these recordings.” -Laurie Pepper
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Art Pepper – New York Album (1985/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:35 minutes | 719 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings
New York Album is an album by saxophonist Art Pepper recorded in 1979 at the sessions that produced So in Love but not released on the Galaxy label until 1985.
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Art Pepper – Artworks (1984/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:04 minutes | 824 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings
Artworks is an album by saxophonist Art Pepper recorded in 1979 at the sessions that produced So in Love but not released on the Galaxy label until 1984.
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Art Pepper – So In Love (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:24 minutes | 809 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings
Originally reissued as part of the Promise Kept: The Complete Artist House Recordings boxed set, now available separately . LP contains the original 5 tracks – CD/Digital include an additional 3 bonus tracks . Remastered by Grammy? winner Michael Graves, with vinyl cut by Jeff Powell Producer John Snyder had always wanted to record Pepper and booked him into a week at the Village Vanguard in New York. At the time, Pepper was under contract to Contemporary Records and label head, Les Koenig, decided he would record the gigs, quashing any notion Snyder had of doing the same. However, Art promised Snyder that he’d record an album for Snyder’s label, Artists House, at some point down the road. Together they wound up making four. Here again on vinyl, CD & Digital are the original albums drawn from these sessions, lovingly recreated in their original form, remastered by Grammy? winner Michael Graves and recut by Jeff Powell. So In Love (originally issued in 1980) features Pepper’s takes on classics from Thelonious Monk, Cole Porter, and Hoagy Carmichael, plus a pair of originals including “Blues For Blanche.” The CD and Digital add three bonus performances from the sessions. The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow noted: “Pepper is in excellent form throughout the album, giving these songs heart-wrenching interpretations”. “John and Art both kept their promises. John brought Art into the wider world; he put him on the road. Just as he said he would, he brought him to New York and to the Village Vanguard, got his picture in the papers, got him on the radio. From Art, John got his dearest wish. He made these recordings.” -Laurie Pepper
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Art Pepper – All The Things You Are (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:44 minutes | 578 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delta Music
Art Pepper with Warne Marsh is an album by alto saxophonist Art Pepper and tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh which was recorded in 1956 but not released on the Contemporary label in Japan until 1986. Several tracks were released on Pepper’s 1972 compilation The Way It Was!, the title of the US CD reissue of this material.
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Chet Baker and Art Pepper – Playboys (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:09 minutes | 371 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
These 1956 Pacific Jazz sides appeared in 1961 under the title Playboys. Myth and rumor persist that, under legal advice from the publisher of a similarly named magazine, the collection would have to be retitled. It was renamed Picture of Heath, as more than half of the tracks are Jimmy Heath compositions. Regardless, the music is the absolute same. These are the third sessions to feature the dynamic duo of Art Pepper (alto sax) and Chet Baker (trumpet). Their other two meetings had produced unequivocal successes. The first was during a brief July 1956 session at the Forum Theater in L.A. Baker joined forces with Pepper’s sextet, ultimately netting material for the Route LP. Exactly three months to the day later, Pepper and Baker reconvened to record tracks for the Chet Baker Big Band album. The quartet supporting Baker and Pepper on Playboys includes Curtis Counce (bass), Phil Urso (tenor sax), Carl Perkins (piano), and Larance Marable (drums). Baker and Pepper have an instinctual rapport that yields outstanding interplay. The harmony constant throughout the practically inseparable lines that Baker weaves with Pepper drives the bop throughout the slinky “For Minors Only.” The soloists take subtle cues directly from each other, with considerable contributions from Perkins, Counce, and Marable. With the notorious track record both Baker and Pepper had regarding other decidedly less successful duets, it is unfortunate that more recordings do not exist that captured their special bond. These thoroughly enjoyable and often high-energy sides are perfect for bop connoisseurs as well as mainstream jazz listeners. ~ Lindsay Planer
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Art Pepper – The Intimate Art Pepper (1979/2003/2016)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 1:01:33 minutes | 2,45 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Booklet, Front Cover | © Analogue Productions Revival
In 1979 Art Pepper was recorded at two sessions that yielded two fine albums, So In Love and The New York Album. There was more first-rate material recorded in those two sessions than would fit on two LPs so difficult choices had to be made as to what material not to include on the albums released at the time. Those choices were not necessarily made on the basis of the quality of the performances but with respect to such considerations as length and congruence of repertoire within an album.
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Art Pepper – So In Love (1980/2016)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 47:45 minutes | 1,90 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Digital Booklet | © Analogue Productions
This deluxe release from the classy (but long defunct) Artists House label, as with all of Art Pepper’s recordings of his comeback years, is easily recommended. Actually all of the music on So in Love has been reissued in greatly expanded form in Pepper’s massive 16-CD Galaxy box set. The original LP has lengthy versions of “So in Love,” “Stardust,” “Straight No Chaser” and two Pepper originals (“Diane” and “Blues for Blanche”). Assisted by two equally talented rhythm sections (pianists Hank Jones and George Cables, bassists Ron Carter and Charlie Haden, and drummers Al Foster and Billy Higgins), Pepper is in excellent form throughout the album, giving these songs heart-wrenching interpretations. ~~ AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow
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Art Pepper – New York Album (1979/2016)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 39:04 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Digital Booklet | © Analogue Productions
New York Album is an album by saxophonist Art Pepper recorded in 1979 at the sessions that produced So in Love but not released on the Galaxy label until 1985.
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Art Pepper – Surf Ride (1956) [Japanese SHM-SACD 2012]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 36:43 minutes | Scans included | 1,74 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Mono (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Scans included | 776 MB
Genre: Jazz
Surf Ride is an album by saxophonist Art Pepper featuring sessions from 1952-54 which was originally released as a 12 inch LP on the Savoy label in 1956. All of the recording presented in original Mono format.
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Art Pepper – Meets The Rhythm Section (1957) [Analogue Productions 2002]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 50:28 minutes | Scans included | 2.04 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 965 MB
analogue productions # CAPJ 7532 SA
By the time of this, Art Pepper’s tenth recording as a leader, he was making his individual voice on the alto saxophone leave the cozy confines of his heroes Charlie Parker and Lee Konitz. Joining the Miles Davis rhythm section of pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones made the transformation all that more illuminating. It’s a classic east meets west, cool plus hot but never lukewarm combination that provides many bright moments for the quartet during this exceptional date from that great year in music, 1957. A bit of a flip, loosened but precise interpretation of the melody on “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” gets the ball rolling, followed by a “Bags Groove” parallel with “Red Pepper Blues,” and a delicate, atypical treatment of “Imagination.” A compositional collaboration of Pepper and Chambers on the quick “Waltz Me Blues” and hard-edged, running-as-fast-as-he-can take of “Straight Life” really sets the gears whirring. Philly Joe Jones is a great bop drummer, no doubt, one of the all-time greats with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach. His crisp Latin-to-swing pace for “Tin Tin Deo” deserves notice, masterful in its creation and seamlessness. Pepper makes a typical “Star Eyes” brighter, and he goes into a lower octave tone, more like a tenor, for “Birks Works” and the bonus track “The Man I Love.” It’s clear he has heard his share of Stan Getz in this era. Though Art Pepper played with many a potent trio, this one inspires him to the maximum, and certainly makes for one of his most substantive recordings after his initial incarcerations, and before his second major slip into the deep abyss of drug addiction.
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Art Pepper – Gettin’ Together (1960) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2012]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 42:54 minutes | Scans included | 1,74 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 840 MB
As a sort of follow-up to Art Pepper’s matchup with Miles Davis’ trio in the 1957 classic Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, Pepper utilizes Davis’ sidemen on this 1960 near-classic. In addition to pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, trumpeter Conte Candoli makes the group a quintet on four of the eight numbers. This time around, rather than emphasizing standards, Pepper performs just three (“Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise,” Thelonious Monk’s “Rhythm-A-Ning,” and “The Way You Look Tonight”) and includes three originals of his own: “Diane,” “Bijou the Poodle,” and “Gettin’ Together.” The music is all very straight-ahead and bop-oriented, but as usual, Pepper brings something very personal and unique to his playing; he sounds like no one else.
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