12 Classic Albums 1954–1962

Tracklist

• CD 1: Tracks 1–8: Originally 'Modern Art' Intro Records ILP 606 1954 / Tracks 9–17: Originally 'Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section' Contemporary Records C3532 1957
• 1
  Blues In
  6:00
• 2
  Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
  4:25
• 3
  Stompin’ at the Savoy
  5:03
• 4
  What Is This Thing Called Love
  6:05
• 5
  Blues Out
  4:45
• 6
  When You’re Smiling
  4:50
• 7
  Cool Bunny
  4:12
• 8
  Diane’s Dilemma
  3:48
• 9
  You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To
  5:22
• 10
  Red Pepper Blues
  3:36
• 11
  Imagination
  5:50
• 12
  Waltz Me Blues
  2:55
• 13
  Straight Life
  3:57
• 14
  Jazz Me Blues
  4:45
• 15
  Tin Tin Deo
  7:40
• 16
  Star Eyes
  5:09
• 17
  Birks Works
  4:16
• CD 2: Tracks 1‐9: Originally 'The Marty Paich Quartet featuring Art Pepper' Tampa Records TP-28 1957 / Tracks 10‐18: Originally 'Just Friends' Pacific Jazz Records M-401 1957)
• 1
  What’s Right for You
  3:12
• 2
  You and the Night and the Music
  3:23
• 3
  Sidewinder
  2:25
• 4
  Abstract Art
  2:56
• 5
  Over the Rainbow
  2:22
• 6
  All the Things You Are
  3:24
• 7
  Pitfall
  3:32
• 8
  Melancholy Madeline
  2:47
• 9
  Marty’s Blues
  2:23
• 10
  Just Friends
  5:09
• 11
  A Foggy Day
  3:55
• 12
  All of Me
  4:32
• 13
  Diane‐A‐Flow
  4:04
• 14
  Limehouse Blues
  3:18
• 15
  What Is This Thing Called Love
  5:20
• 16
  Solid Desylva
  4:32
• 17
  Sweet and Lovely
  5:06
• 18
  Zenobia
  5:17
• CD 3: Tracks 1‐10: Originally 'Mucho Calor' Andex A 3002 1958 / Tracks 11‐16: Originally 'Art Pepper & Sonny Redd' Regent RMG-6069 1959
• 1
  Mucho calor
  6:53
• 2
  Autumn Leaves
  3:05
• 3
  Mambo de la pinta
  5:29
• 4
  I’ll Remember April
  2:21
• 5
  Vaya hombre vaya
  3:21
• 6
  I Love You
  5:47
• 7
  Mambo Jumbo
  3:47
• 8
  Old Devil Moon
  5:27
• 9
  Pernod
  3:57
• 10
  That Old Black Magic
  4:25
• 11
  Deep Purple
  3:58
• 12
  Watkins Production
  9:36
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Everything Happens to Me
  3:08
• 14
  Redd’s Head
  9:13
• 15
  These Foolish Things
  2:41
• 16
  What’s New
  3:25
• CD 4: Tracks 1‐12: Originally 'Art Pepper + Eleven' Contemporary Records M 3568 1959 / Tracks 13‐19: Originally 'Playboys' Vogue Records LAE 12183 1959
• 1
  Move
  3:27
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Groovin’ High
  3:24
• 3
  Opus de Funk
  3:15
• 4
  Round Midnight
  3:35
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Four Brothers
  2:59
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Shaw ’Nuff
  2:59
• 7
  Bernie’s Tune
  2:46
• 8
  Walkin’ Shoes
  3:32
• 9
  Anthropology
  3:20
• 10
  Airegin
  3:02
• 11
  Walkin’
  5:18
• 12
  Donna Lee
  3:23
• 13
  For Minors Only
  4:03
  1.0 ★
• 14
  Minor Yours
  6:46
• 15
  Resonant Emotions
  5:45
  1.0 ★
• 16
  Tynan Tyme
  5:35
• 17
  Picture of Heath
  6:48
  2.0 ★
• 18
  For Miles and Miles
  6:29
  2.0 ★
• 19
  C.T.A.
  5:10
  3.0 ★
• CD 5: Tracks 1‐12: Originally 'Surf Ride' Savoy Records MG 12089 1959 / Tracks 13‐19: Originally 'Gettin’ Together!' Contemporary Records S7573 1960
• 1
  Tickle Toe
  2:54
• 2
  Chili Pepper
  2:59
• 3
  Susie the Poodle
  3:14
• 4
  Brown Gold
  2:26
• 5
  Holiday Flight
  3:11
• 6
  Surf Ride
  2:53
• 7
  Straight Life
  2:51
• 8
  Cinnamon
  3:10
• 9
  Thyme Time
  3:29
• 10
  The Way You Look Tonight
  3:47
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Nutmeg
  3:14
• 12
  Art’s Oregano
  3:10
• 13
  Whims of Chambers
  7:00
• 14
  Bijou the Poodle
  6:03
• 15
  Why Are We Afraid
  3:39
• 16
  Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
  7:00
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Rhythm‐a‐ning
  7:19
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Diane
  5:08
• 19
  Gettin’ Together
  7:00
• CD 6: Tracks 1‐6: Originally 'Smack Up' Contemporary Records LAC 12316 1960 / Tracks 7‐11: Originally 'The Artistry of Pepper' Pacific Jazz Records PJ-60 1962
• 1
  Smack Up
  4:18
• 2
  Las cuevas de Mario
  7:11
• 3
  A Bit of Basie
  7:26
  4.0 ★
• 4
  How Can You Lose
  6:57
• 5
  Maybe Next Year
  4:25
• 6
  Tears Inside
  7:47
• 7
  Popo
  4:25
• 8
  I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
  4:10
• 9
  Ol’ Croix
  5:28
• 10
  Bunny
  3:43
• 11
  C.T.A.
  5:12
  3.0 ★

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Release credits

• Al Porcino
  trumpet [1-2, 5-7, 9, 11-12]
• Art Pepper
  alto saxophone [5.1-12, 5.16, 6.1-11, 3.1-11, 3.13, 3.15-16, 2.1-9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15, 2.18, 4.2-19, 1.1-17], baritone saxophone [12, 14], clarinet [2-6, 8-12], saxophone [13-15, 17-18], tenor saxophone [4.1-6, 4.8-12, 5.19]
• Ben Tucker
  bass [1-10], double bass [1.1-8, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15, 2.18]
• Bill Holman
  arranger [8], tenor saxophone [7, 10]
• Bill Perkins
  bass clarinet [10, 12, 14, 16-17], clarinet [10, 12, 14, 16-17], flute [10, 12, 14, 16-17], tenor saxophone [4.2-4, 4.6, 4.8-10, 4.12, 3.1-10, 2.10-18], woodwind [10, 12, 14, 16-17]
• Bob Enevoldsen
  tenor saxophone [2-12], valve trombone [1-12]
• Bob Whitlock
  bass [5.1-3, 3.13], double bass [1-3]
• Bobby White
  drums (drum set) [5.1-3, 3.13]
• Bud Shank
  alto saxophone [2, 6, 9, 12], baritone saxophone [7, 10]
• Buddy Clark
  bass [1-2, 4-9], double bass [3]
• Bunny Robine
  recording [6-8]
• Carl Perkins
  piano [4.19, 6.11]
• Carl Perkins
  piano [6.11, 4.13-19]
• Charlie Kennedy
  alto saxophone [1, 5, 7, 11]
• Chet Baker
  trumpet [6.11, 4.13-19]
• Chuck Flores
  drums (drum set) [3.1-10, 1.1-8]
• Claude Williamson
  piano [5.7-12, 3.11, 3.16]
• Conte Candoli
  trumpet [3.1-10, 5.13-14, 5.17]
• Curtis Counce
  bass [4.13-19, 6.11], double bass [6.11, 4.13-19]
• Dick Nash
  trombone [1-12]
• Don Fagerquist
  trumpet [7, 10]
• Donald Clark
  producer [1-8]
• Doug Watkins
  bass [12, 14]
• Elvin Jones
  drums (drum set) [12, 14]
• Frank Butler
  drums (drum set) [1-6]
• Frank Capp
  drums (drum set) [1-9]
• Hampton Hawes
  piano [5.4-6, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-17, 3.15]
• Herb Geller
  alto saxophone [1-5, 7-8, 10]
• Howard Holzer
  engineer [13-19], recording [1-12]
• Jack Costanzo
  bongos [1-10], percussion [1-10]
• Jack Montrose
  tenor saxophone [3.11, 3.16, 5.7-12]
• Jack Sheldon
  trumpet [6.1-6, 4.1-12]
• James E. Bond
  bass [2-6], double bass [1]
• Jimmy Cobb
  drums (drum set) [13-19]
• Jimmy Rowles
  piano [11, 13, 15, 18]
• Joe Mondragon
  bass [15], double bass [5.4-6, 4.1-12]
• Larry Bunker
  drums (drum set) [3.11, 3.15-16, 5.4-7, 5.9-10, 5.12]
• Lawrence Marable
  drums (drum set) [6.11, 4.13-19]
• Leroy Vinnegar
  bass [8-9]
• Lester Koenig
  producer [5.13-19, 4.1-12, 1.9-17, 6.1-6]
• Marty Paich
  arranger [1-12], conductor [1-12], piano [1-9]
• Med Flory
  baritone saxophone [1-12]
• Mel Lewis
  drums (drum set) [2.10-18, 4.1-12]
• Mike Pacheco
  bongos [1-10], percussion [1-10]
• Monty Budwig
  bass [3.11, 3.16, 5.7-12, 6.7], double bass [5.7-12, 6.10]
• Ozzie Cadena
  producer [1-12]
• Paul Ballerina
  drums (drum set) [8, 11]
• Paul Chambers
  double bass [5.13-19, 1.9-17]
• Pepper Adams
  baritone saxophone [12, 14]
• Pete Candoli
  trumpet [3-4, 8, 10]
• Pete Jolly
  piano [1-6, 8-9]
• Phil Urso
  tenor saxophone [4.13-19, 6.11]
• Philly Joe Jones
  drums (drum set) [9-17]
• Red Callender
  tuba [7, 10]
• Red Garland
  piano [9-17]
• Red Mitchell
  double bass [10, 12, 14, 16-17]
• Richard Bock
  producer [2.10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-17, 6.11, 4.13-19]
• Richie Kamuca
  tenor saxophone [4.1, 4.5, 4.7, 4.11, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-17]
• Roy DuNann
  engineer [6.1-6, 1.9-17, 5.13-19], recording [1-12]
• Rudy van Gelder
  engineer [11-16]
• Russ Freeman
  piano [3.1-10, 3.13, 4.1-12, 5.1-3, 6.7, 6.10, 1.1-8]
• Shelly Manne
  drums (drum set) [7, 10]
• Shorty Rogers
  arranger [7, 10], conductor [7, 10]
• Sonny Red
  alto saxophone [12, 14]
• Stan Levey
  drums (drum set) [8-9]
• Stu Williamson
  valve trombone [7, 10]
• Thorne Nogar
  recording [1-5]
• Val Valentin
  engineer [1-9], recording [10, 12, 14, 16-17]
• Vincent DeRosa
  French horn [1-12]
• Woody Woodward
  producer [10, 12, 14, 16-17]
• Wynton Kelly
  piano [3.12, 3.14, 5.13-19]
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Issues

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  1
  12 Classic Albums 1954–1962

  6x CD
  12 August 2015