| 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 | ||||
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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
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| 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
- 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Sleeping Bee – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
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