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Art Pepper Today
Studio album by
Art Pepper
Released1979
RecordedDecember 1 & 2, 1978
GenreJazz
LabelGalaxy
ProducerEd 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.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar[1]
Tom HullB+ ((3-star Honorable Mention)(3-star Honorable Mention)(3-star Honorable Mention))[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStarStar[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record GuideStarStarStarStar[4]
DownBeatStarStarStarStarStar[5]

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]

DownBeat gave the album 5 stars.[5] Reviewer Terry Martin wrote, "Art Pepper Today finds the artist completely emotionally engaged with the themes and style of yesterday, and they leap to life with joyous urgency".[5]

Track listing

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  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 December 1 & 2, 1978.)

Personnel

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

December 2, 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" alternate version – 9:09

Sources

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  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Penguin, 4th edition, 1998. ISBN 0-14-051383-3

References

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  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.
  5. 1 2 3 Martin, Terry (September 5, 1979). "Record Reviews". DownBeat. 46 (15): 39–40.
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