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1957 studio album by Sonny Stitt
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Personal Appearance is a 1957 album by Sonny Stitt .[ 2]
Reception
The original Downbeat review by Ira Gitler awarded the album 5 stars. He wrote "In rating this album five stars, I do not mean to say it is a 'perfect' record. Timmons plays well, but this is Stitt's album, and he is tremendous. Sonny is all over both his horns, communicating directly and deeply. If you consider yourself a jazz lover, you should own this set."
Track listing
"You'd Be So Easy to Love " (Cole Porter ) – 4:45
"Easy Living " (Ralph Rainger , Leo Robin ) – 4:49
"Autumn in New York " (Vernon Duke ) – 2:20
"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To " (Porter) – 4:52
"For Some Friends" (Sonny Stitt ) – 4:44
"I Never Knew" (Ted Fio Rito , Gus Kahn ) – 4:27
"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea " (Harold Arlen , Ted Koehler ) – 5:14
"East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) " (Brooks Bowman ) – 5:30
"Original?" (Stitt) – 4:33
"Avalon " (Buddy DeSylva , Al Jolson , Vincent Rose ) – 2:55
"Blues Greasy" (Stitt) – 3:20
Personnel
References
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)
AndGene Ammons WithDizzy Gillespie WithDon Patterson With others
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader With Art Blakey andthe Jazz Messengers With others
10 to 4 at the 5 Spot (Pepper Adams , 1958)
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (1959)
Them Dirty Blues (Cannonball Adderley , 1960)
Work Song (Nat Adderley , 1960)
Chet Baker & Crew (1956)
Chet Baker Big Band (1956)
Blue Lights (Kenny Burrell , 1958)
On View at the Five Spot Cafe (Kenny Burrell, 1959)
More Party Time (Arnett Cobb , 1960)
Movin' Right Along (Arnett Cobb, 1960)
'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia (Kenny Dorham , 1956)
Matador (Kenny Dorham, 1962)
Brass Shout (Art Farmer , 1959)
The Opener (Curtis Fuller , 1957)
Benny Golson and the Philadelphians (1958)
The Big Soul-Band (Johnny Griffin , 1960)
The Soul Society (Sam Jones , 1960)
Nice and Easy (Johnny Lytle , 1962)
Hank (Hank Mobley , 1957)
The Cooker (Lee Morgan , 1957)
Lee-Way (Lee Morgan, 1960)
Comin' On! (Dizzy Reece , 1960)
Personal Appearance (Sonny Stitt , 1957)
The Young Lions (1960)