Sleeping Bee
1969 studio album by Billy Taylor Trio
Sleeping Bee | ||||
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Studio album by Billy Taylor Trio | ||||
Released | 1969 | |||
Recorded | April 1969 | |||
Studio | RCA Studio, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 42:57 | |||
Label | MPS MPS 15234 Prestige PR 7762 | |||
Producer | Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer | |||
Billy Taylor chronology | ||||
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Billy Taylor Today cover | ||||
Sleeping Bee is an album by American jazz pianist Billy Taylor which was recorded in 1969 and originally released on the MPS label in Europe and re-released on the Prestige label in the US as Billy Taylor Today.[1][2]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "The enjoyable music swings and fits perfectly into the jazz mainstream of the era".[3]
Track listing
All compositions by Billy Taylor except as indicated
- "La Petite Mambo" (Erroll Garner) - 4:47
- "Theodora" - 5:43
- "Paraphrase" - 4:21
- "Bye Y'all" - 5:13
- "Don't Go Down South" - 3:28
- "Brother, Where Are You?" (Oscar Brown) - 5:33
- "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) - 8:24
- "A Sleepin' Bee" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) - 5:28
Personnel
References
- ^ Billy Taylor discography Archived 2007-12-05 at the Wayback Machine accessed October 27, 2015
- ^ Prestige Records Catalog: 7700 series accessed October 27, 2015
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Sleeping Bee – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
- v
- t
- e
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
- The Billy Taylor Touch (1951 & 1957)
- Billy Taylor Trio (1952 & 1953)
- Cross Section (1953 & 1954)
- The Billy Taylor Trio with Candido (1954)
- A Touch of Taylor (1955)
- My Fair Lady Loves Jazz (1957)
- The New Billy Taylor Trio (1957)
- Taylor Made Jazz (1957)
- One for Fun (1959)
- Billy Taylor with Four Flutes (1959)
- Warming Up! (1960)
- Interlude (1961)
- Kwamina (1961)
- Impromptu (1962)
- Sleeping Bee (1969)
- Urban Griot (2000)
- Billy Taylor Trio at Town Hall (1954)
- Uptown (1960)
- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (1967)