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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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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

  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

References

  1. ^ Billy Taylor discography Archived 2007-12-05 at the Wayback Machine accessed October 27, 2015
  2. ^ Prestige Records Catalog: 7700 series accessed October 27, 2015
  3. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Sleeping Bee – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2015.