Art Pepper Today Explained

Art Pepper Today
Type:	album
Artist:	Art Pepper
Cover:	Art Pepper Today.jpeg
Released:	1979
Recorded:	1 & 2 December 1978
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Galaxy Records
Producer:	Ed Michel
Prev Title:	Among Friends
Prev Year:	1978
Next Title:	New York Album
Next Year:	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

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'."

Track listing

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 1 December & 2 December 1978.)

Personnel

• Art Pepper – alto saxophone
• Stanley Cowell – piano
• Cecil McBee – bass
• Roy Haynes – drums
• Kenneth Nash – congas & percussion on "Mambo Koyama"

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

2 December 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" (Harold Arlen; E.Y. Harburg) alternate version – 9:09

Sources

• Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Penguin, 4th edition, 1998.