Playboys

Seven original tunes orchestrated and executed beautifully by the three-horn front-line, alt-saxophonist Art Pepper,

trumpeter Chet Baker and tenor saxophonist Phil Urso supported by a state-of-the-art rhythm section with drummer Larance

Marable, bassist Curtis Counce and Counce Quintet member pianist Carl Perkins. "Playboys" was the third collaboration

between Baker & Pepper, two of the most identifiable and expressive voices in jazz, sound like "merely" proficient players on

this occasion. Baker employs an uncharacteristically extrovertish, brassy sound, and Pepper negotiates chord changes as he

did in the Stan Kenton big band. These thoroughly enjoyable and often high-energy tracks are perfect for bop connoisseurs

as well as mainstream jazz listeners.