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Sleeping Bee

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Released
  
1969

Sleeping Bee (1969)
  
OK Billy (1970)

Release date
  
1969

Length
  
42:57

Artist
  
Billy Taylor

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
April 1969 RCA Studio, New York City

Label
  
MPS MPS 15234 Prestige PR 7762

Producer
  
Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer

Similar
  
Billy Taylor albums, Jazz albums

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.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "The enjoyable music swings and fits perfectly into the jazz mainstream of the era".

Track listing

All compositions by Billy Taylor except as indicated

  1. "La Petite Mambo" (Erroll Garner) - 4:47
  2. "Theodora" - 5:43
  3. "Paraphrase" - 4:21
  4. "Bye Y'all" - 5:13
  5. "Don't Go Down South" - 3:28
  6. "Brother, Where Are You?" (Oscar Brown) - 5:33
  7. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) - 8:24
  8. "A Sleepin' Bee" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) - 5:28

Personnel

  • Billy Taylor - piano
  • Ben Tucker - bass
  • Grady Tate - drums

    • References

    Sleeping Bee Wikipedia
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