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1959 studio album by Sonny Stitt
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The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt, released in 1959 on the Roost label.[3]
Reception
AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated
- "Happy Faces" - 3:40
- "Am I Blue?" (Harry Akst, Grant Clarke) - 2:57
- "I'll Be Seeing You" (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain) - 2:05
- "When You're Smiling" (Larry Shay, Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin) - 3:34
- "In a Little Spanish Town" (Mabel Wayne, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) - 4:00
- "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) - 3:42
- "Back in Your Own Back Yard" (Al Jolson, Billy Rose, Dave Dreyer) - 3:26
- "Foot Tapper" - 3:05
- "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 2:44
- "Shadow Waltz" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) - 2:08
- "Wind-Up" - 3:35
Personnel
References
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. |
As 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)
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With Dizzy Gillespie | |
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With Don Patterson | |
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