ART PEPPER QUINTET Smack Up 1962 UK CONTEMPORARY 1st *MONO* - NEAR MINT
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Jun 8, 2018
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May 29, 2018
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ART PEPPER QUINTET Smack Up 1962 UK CONTEMPORARY 1st *MONO* - NEAR MINT
ART PEPPER QUINTETSmack Up
UK Contemporary Records (LAC 12316) FIRST *MONO* PRESSING (released September 1962)
Recorded October 24 & 25, 1960 at Contemporary Records in Los Angeles
GREAT COPY - BARELY PLAYED AND DELIVERING FANTASTIC SOUND
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE DEEP GROOVED CONTEMPORARY LABELS WITH "MADE IN ENGLAND" TEXT
MATRIX: VMGT-18167-1B / VMGT-18167-1B
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/U and 1/U (pressed by Decca)
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY LAMINATED (non-flipback variant) COVER “Printed in England by West Brothers . Printers . Limited . Mitchum”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL DECCA COMPANY "PATENTS APPLIED FOR" POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE
The title of this recording, Smack Up is intentionally ironic and truthful.
Art Pepper would spend many years in and out of jail due to his heroin addiction.
This was his next-to-last album from that period and despite his bleak looking future, the great altoist (who never seemed to make an uninspired record during his unstable life) is in excellent form in a quintet with trumpeter Jack Sheldon, pianist Pete Jolly, bassist Jimmy Bond, and drummer Frank Butler.
Highlights of this fine album include Harold Land's title cut, the five/four blues "Las Cuevas de Mario," and Ornette Coleman's "Tears Inside."
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."
Side One:
Smack Up (4:14)
Las Cuevas De Mario (7:06)
A Bit Of Basie (7:23)
Side Two:
How Can You Lose (6:52)
Maybe Next Year (4:20)
Tears Inside (7:42)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with only light spindle traces. A couple on Side Two, possibly one on Side One. Clearly seen little play
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new with nothing but a few harmless brush marks/hairlines
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT / EXCELLENT+
Plays beautifully throughout with little to fault the crystal clear, bright, rich sound.
No scratches, just a couple of non continuous pops on "Maybe Next Year" - nothing major and nothing else to fault the rest of this wonderful record - great copy
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Superb example which is as crisp, clean, sharp and unworn as the day it was made.
The laminate front and back has a deep gloss with just some marks visible when angled to the light but these look like manufacturing issues and in no way detract from the beautiful appearance of the cover
POST & PACKING:
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836 (GS 7.0.14 (836))
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