Sonny Stitt Plays
1956 studio album by Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt Plays | ||||
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Studio album by Sonny Stitt | ||||
Released | 1956 | |||
Recorded | December 15 & 16, 1955 Capitol Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Roost RLP 2208 | |||
Producer | Teddy Reig | |||
Sonny Stitt chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Sonny Stitt Plays (also referred to as Sonny Stitt, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Stitt) is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1955 and originally released on the Roost label.[2]
Reception
The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars.[1]
Track listing
All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated
- "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 4:33
- "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 5:08
- "Biscuit Mix (Carpsie's Groove)" – 3:14
- "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 4:56
- "Afterwards" – 3:14
- "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 4:15
- "Blues for Bobby" – 4:48
- "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton) 5:36
- "The Nearness Of You" [alternate take] (Carmichael, Washington) – 5:22 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "If I Should Lose You" [alternate take] (Rainger, Robin) – 4:29 Bonus track on CD reissue
- Recorded at Capitol Studios in New York City on December 15 (tracks 1-4 & 9) and December 16 (tracks 5-8 & 10), 1955
- The Bonus tracks must be from the box set. They are not on the current Japanese Import CD
Personnel
- Sonny Stitt – alto saxophone
- Hank Jones – piano
- Freddie Green – rhythm guitar (tracks 1-4 & 9)
- Wendell Marshall – bass
- Shadow Wilson – drums
References
- ^ a b Allmusic Review accessed January 2, 2013
- ^ Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Royal Roost/Roost Album Discography accessed January 2, 2013
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
leader or
co-leader
- Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50)
- Stitt's Bits (1950)
- Kaleidoscope (1950–52)
- Jazz at the Hi-Hat (1954)
- The Battle of Birdland (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1954)
- Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (1955)
- Sonny Stitt Plays (1955)
- New York Jazz (1956)
- For Musicians Only (with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, 1956)
- 37 Minutes and 48 Seconds with Sonny Stitt (c.1956/57)
- Only the Blues (1957)
- Personal Appearance (1957)
- Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers (1957)
- Burnin' (1958)
- Sonny Stitt (1958)
- The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt (1958)
- A Little Bit of Stitt (1959)
- Saxophone Supremacy (1959)
- Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues (1959)
- Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements (1959)
- Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1959)
- Sonny Side Up (with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins, Verve, 1959)
- Sonny Stitt Swings the Most (1959)
- The Hard Swing (1959)
- The Sonny Side of Stitt (1959)
- Previously Unreleased Recordings (1960)
- Sonny Side Up (Roost, 1960)
- Stittsville (1960)
- Stitt in Orbit (1960–62)
- Sonny Stitt at the D. J. Lounge (1961)
- The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt (1961)
- Feelin's (1962)
- Low Flame (1962)
- Rearin' Back (1962)
- Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (1962)
- Stitt Meets Brother Jack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1962)
- Move on Over (1963)
- My Mother's Eyes (1963)
- Now! (1963)
- Primitivo Soul! (1963)
- Salt and Pepper (and Paul Gonsalves, 1963)
- Soul Shack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1963)
- Stitt Goes Latin (1963)
- Stitt Plays Bird (1963)
- My Main Man (and Bennie Green, 1964)
- Shangri-La (with Don Patterson, 1964)
- Sax Expressions (1965)
- Sonny Stitt / Live at Ronnie Scott's (with Dick Morrissey, 1965)
- Soul People (with Booker Ervin and Don Patterson, 1964–69)
- Broadway Soul (1965)
- Inter-Action (and Zoot Sims, 1965)
- Night Crawler (with Don Patterson, 1965)
- Pow! (with Bennie Green, 1965)
- The Matadors Meet the Bull (1965)
- Deuces Wild (1966)
- I Keep Comin' Back! (1966)
- Soul in the Night (and Bunky Green, 1966)
- What's New!!! (1966)
- Parallel-a-Stitt (1967)
- Little Green Apples (1968)
- Soul Electricity! (1968)
- Come Hither (1969)
- Night Letter (1969)
- Black Vibrations (1971)
- Turn It On! (1971)
- 12! (1972)
- Constellation (1972)
- Goin' Down Slow (1972)
- Tune-Up! (1972)
- Mr. Bojangles (1973)
- The Champ (1973)
- Satan (1974)
- Blues for Duke (1975)
- Dumpy Mama (1975)
- Mellow (1975)
- My Buddy: Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons (1975)
- Forecast: Sonny & Red (with Red Holloway, 1976)
- I Remember Bird (1978)
- Stomp Off Let's Go (1976)
- Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington (1977)
- In Style (1981)
- The Last Sessions (1982)
Gene
Ammons
- All Star Sessions (1950–55)
- Dig Him! (1961)
- Boss Tenors (1961)
- Boss Tenors in Orbit! (1962)
- Soul Summit (with "Brother"Jack McDuff, 1962)
- You Talk That Talk! (1971)
- God Bless Jug and Sonny (1973)
- Left Bank Encores (1973)
- Together Again for the Last Time (1973)
Dizzy
Gillespie
- The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956)
- Duets (1957)
- The Giants of Jazz (with Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Kai Winding, 1971)
- The Bop Session (1975)
Don
Patterson
- Patterson's People (1964)
- Tune Up! (1964–69)
- The Boss Men (1965)
- Funk You! (1968)
- Brothers-4 (1969)
- Donny Brook (1969)
others
- A Jazz Message (with Art Blakey, 1963)
- In Walked Sonny (with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, 1975)
- The Oscar Peterson Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957)