Art Pepper Mosaic Select 15 Mosaic Records 2005 Featuring Art Pepper's 1956 and 1957 Aladdin sessions, which have been issued on The Return of Art Pepper (Jazz West), Collections (Intro), Modern Art (Blue Note), Just Friends (Pacific Jazz), Solo Flight (Pacific Jazz), The Art of Pepper (Omega) and The Art ...

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Smack Up

By Art Pepper

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Smack Up; Las Cuevas De Mario; A Bit Of Basie; How Can You Lose; Maybe Next Year; Tears Inside.

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Article: Roads Less Travelled

Art Pepper: West Coastin'

by Nic Jones
October 28, 2004

The last article in this series discussed the most significant strand in the recording history of Sonny Criss , a musician who was unjustly neglected during his lifetime. By contrast, Art Pepper might have been overexposed during his. If so, then this was a process helped in no small part by his autobiography1 in which he ...

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Article: Album Review

Bootsie Barnes: Bootsie Barnes: Boppin' Round the Center

Read "Bootsie Barnes: Boppin' Round the Center" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer
June 6, 2004

This CD featuring Bootsie Barnes and a group assembled for the occasion has one characteristic uncommon in an era of so-called 'smooth jazz,' rap singing, and canned music for every occasion from cinematically simulated inner city rumbles to drugs for erectile dysfunction. It really swings! It also 'bops around the center!' (I truly don't know what ...

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Art Pepper: Smack Up

Read "Smack Up" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
April 16, 2004

Art Pepper's reckless lifestyle tended to overshadow his superb musicianship, and the circumstances surrounding Smack Up are certainly no exception. Shortly after recording it in 1960, he spent three years in jail for heroin possession, and one can only wonder if the title of the record is a play on words. Nevertheless, Pepper is in good ...

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Art Pepper: Smack Up

Read "Smack Up" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 19, 2004

Art Pepper produced the greatest recordings of the so-called “first phase" of his career during periods of intense chaos. A case in point is Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, where the altoist--rusty from inactivity, angry because of the surprise recording session set up by his then-wife Diane, and very, very strung out--expelled an acknowledged masterpiece. ...

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Article: Book Review

The Art Pepper Companion: Writings on a Jazz Original

by C. Michael Bailey
March 8, 2004

The Art Pepper Companion Todd Selbert Cooper Square Press ISBN: 0-08154-1967-0 The Art Pepper Companion: Writings on a Jazz Original is the most significant print media on the greatest alto saxophonist of the post Parker era published since Pepper's autobiography Straight Life was updated and published in 1994. It was ...