Sleeping Bee

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This article is about the album by Billy Taylor. For the song by Harold Arlen and Truman Capote, see A Sleepin' Bee.
Sleeping Bee
Sleeping Bee.jpg
Studio album by
Billy Taylor Trio
Released1969
RecordedApril 1969
RCA Studio, New York City
GenreJazz
Length42:57
LabelMPS
MPS 15234
Prestige
PR 7762
ProducerHans Georg Brunner-Schwer
Billy Taylor chronology
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
(1968) 		Sleeping Bee
(1969)
(1970)
Billy Taylor Today cover
Billy Taylor Today.jpg

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
Allmusic4/5 stars[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. ^ Jump up to: a b Yanow, Scott. Sleeping Bee – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
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