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Winter Moon is a 1981 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Stanley Cowell, Howard Roberts, Cecil McBee, Carl Burnett and strings arranged and conducted by Bill Holman  and Jimmy Bond.

“There are people who will try to tell you that Art Pepper’s best work was all done for Contemporary before 1960, and that his work after 1975 was an interesting but minor postscript. If they do, you need say nothing. Just play them this album. Case dismissed.” – John Eyles/AllAboutJazz.

Track listing:
“Our Song” (Art Pepper) – 5:29
“Here’s That Rainy Day” (Jimmy Van Heusen; Johnny Burke) – 5:18
“That’s Love” (Art Pepper) – 4:50
“Winter Moon” (Hoagy Carmichael) – 5:30
“When the Sun Comes Out” (Harold Arlen; Ted Koehler) – 5:47
“Blues in the Night” (Harold Arlen; Johnny Mercer) – 6:59
“Prisoner (Love Theme from Eyes of Laura Mars)” (Lawrence; Desautels) – 6:45

Personnel:
Art Pepper – alto saxophone; clarinet on “Blues in the Night”
Stanley Cowell – piano
Howard Roberts – guitar
Cecil McBee – bass
Carl Burnett – drums
Nate Rubin – violin, concert master
Mary Ann Meredith, Sharon O’Connor, Terry Adams – cello
Audrey Desilva, Clifton Foster, Dan Smiley, Elizabeth Gibson, Emily Van Valkenburg, Greg Mazmanian, John Tenney, Patrice Anderson, Stephen Gehl – violin

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Released: 1981
Recorded: 3 and 4 September 1980, Fantasy Studios, Berkley
Label: Galaxy Records
Producer: Ed Michel