You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
Context
Cole Porter standard opening Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, recorded on January 19, 1957, in Los Angeles for Contemporary. Pepper meets Miles Davis's rhythm section for the first time, and learned of their coming only that very morning. A milestone of his career, the album is in the Penguin Guide to Jazz's core selection; Ben Ratliff saw it as a record of great honesty.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to West Coast, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of West Coast: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Cool (Birth of the Cool), Bossa nova, jazz samba.