{"product_id":"art-pepper-smack-up-music-cd","title":"Art Pepper - Smack Up (Music CD)","description":"The title of this recording, Smack Up (which has been reissued on CD with two takes of the otherwise-unknown \"Solid Citizens\" added), is ironic and inadvertently truthful. Within a short period, Art Pepper would begin spending many years in jail due to his heroin addiction; this was his next-to-last album from that period. Despite the bleak 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.\" [The 1989 CD reissue adds two takes of \"Solid Citizens\" as bonus tracks.] ~ Scott Yanow\r\n","brand":"Not Assigned","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54300892529025,"sku":"EJC55556","price":11.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/9050\/5986\/files\/2583270.jpg?v=1747169110","url":"https:\/\/hit.co.uk\/products\/art-pepper-smack-up-music-cd","provider":"Hit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}