Art Pepper Today

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Art Pepper Today
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Studio album by
Released1979
Recorded1 & 2 December 1978
Genre Jazz
Label Galaxy Records
Producer Ed Michel
Art Pepper chronology
Among Friends
(1978)
Art Pepper Today
(1979)
New York Album
(1979)

Art Pepper Today is a 1978 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper, playing with pianist Stanley Cowell, bassist Cecil McBee, drummer Roy Haynes and percussionist Kenneth Nash.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Tom Hull B+ ( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ) [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]

AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow said that "Art Pepper, in the midst of a successful comeback, recorded this excellent set for Galaxy," which includes "a definitive version of his intense ballad 'Patricia'." [1]

Track listing

  1. "Miss Who" (Art Pepper) – 4:42
  2. "Mambo Koyama" (Art Pepper) – 6:40
  3. "Lover Come Back To Me" (Sigmund Romberg; Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:51
  4. "Patricia" (Art Pepper) – 10:24
  5. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)" (Harry Link; Jack Strachey; Holt Marvell) – 5:44
  6. "Chris's Blues" (Art Pepper) – 3:50
(Recorded on 1 December & 2 December 1978.)

Personnel

Other tracks recorded at the same sessions but unissued at the time:
1 December 1978

  1. "I Love You" (Cole Porter) – 4:35
  2. Untitled Original (a.k.a. "Pepper Pot") (Art Pepper) – 6:40
  3. "Lover Come Back To Me" (Sigmund Romberg; Oscar Hammerstein II) alternate version – 0:00

2 December 1978

  1. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) – 5:18
  2. "Over The Rainbow" (Harold Arlen; E.Y. Harburg) – 8:50
  3. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)" (Harry Link; Jack Strachey; Holt Marvell) alternate version – 5:54
  4. "Over The Rainbow" (Harold Arlen; E.Y. Harburg) alternate version – 9:09

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References

  1. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Art Pepper Today – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  2. Hull, Tom (November 2013). "Recycled Goods (#114)". A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge. Tom Hull. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1143. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 160. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.