Winter Moon (album)

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Winter Moon
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Studio album by
Released1981
Recorded3 and 4 September 1980, Fantasy Studios, Berkley
Genre Jazz
Label Galaxy Records
Producer Ed Michel
Art Pepper chronology
Straight Life
(1979)
Winter Moon
(1981)
One September Afternoon
(1980)
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Winter Moon is a 1981 album by jazz saxophonist Art Pepper, playing with Stanley Cowell, Howard Roberts, Cecil McBee, Carl Burnett and with strings arranged and conducted by Bill Holman ("Our Song", "When the Sun Comes Out", "Blues in the Night", "Winter Moon") and Jimmy Bond ("Here's That Rainy Day", "That's Love", "The Prisoner").

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Our Song" (Art Pepper) – 5:29
  2. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Johnny Burke) – 5:18
  3. "That's Love" (Art Pepper) – 4:50
  4. "Winter Moon" (Hoagy Carmichael) – 5:30
  5. "When the Sun Comes Out" (Harold Arlen; Ted Koehler) – 5:47
  6. "Blues in the Night" (Harold Arlen; Johnny Mercer) – 6:59
  7. "Prisoner (Love Theme from Eyes of Laura Mars )" (Lawrence; John Desautels) – 6:45

Personnel

Musicians

Other personnel

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References

  1. Cook, R. and Morton, B. 1998, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, (Fourth Edition) ISBN   0-14-051383-3
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 160. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.