Art Pepper Today

Art Pepper Today is a 1978 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Stanley Cowell, Cecil McBee, Roy Haynes and Kenneth Nash.

Art Pepper Today
Studio album by Art Pepper
Released	1978
Recorded	1 & 2 December 1978
Genre	Jazz
Label	Galaxy Records
Producer	Ed Michel
Art Pepper chronology
Among Friends (1978) Art Pepper Today (1978) New York Album (1979)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]
Tom Hull	B+ ()[4]

AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and 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]

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) — 0:00
2. Untitled Original (Art Pepper) — 0:00
3. "Lover Come Back To Me" (Sigmund Romberg; Oscar Hammerstein II) alternative version — 0:00

2 December 1978

1. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) — 0:00
2. "Over The Rainbow" (Harold Arlen; E.Y. Harburg) — 0:00
3. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)" (Harry Link; Jack Strachey; Holt Marvell) alternative version — 0:00
4. "Over The Rainbow" (Harold Arlen; E.Y. Harburg) alternative version — 0:00

Sources

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

References

1. Yanow, Scott. Art Pepper Today – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
2. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Fourth Edition, 1998
3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 160. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
4. Hull, Tom (November 2013). "Recycled Goods (#114)". A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge. Tom Hull. Retrieved June 20, 2020.