Sleeping Bee

This article is about the album by Billy Taylor. For the song by Harold Arlen and Truman Capote, see A Sleepin' Bee.

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]

Sleeping Bee
Studio album by Billy Taylor Trio
Released	1969
Recorded	April 1969
Studio	RCA Studio, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	42:57
Label	MPS MPS 15234 Prestige PR 7762
Producer	Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer
Billy Taylor chronology
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (1968) Sleeping Bee (1969) OK Billy (1970)
Billy Taylor Today cover

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
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

• Billy Taylor – piano
• Ben Tucker – bass
• Grady Tate – drums

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. Yanow, Scott. Sleeping Bee – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 27, 2015.