The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt

The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt
The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt
Studio album by Sonny Stitt
Released	1959
Recorded	April 2, 1958 ; Nola's Penthouse Sound, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Label	Roost; RLP 2230
Producer	Teddy Reig
Sonny Stitt chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]

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

Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone 3,5,8 and 11, tenor saxophone
Jimmy Jones - piano
Unknown musician - bass
Charlie Persip - drums

References

^ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). "Goldmine Record Album Price Guide". Penguin – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b Allmusic Review accessed January 3, 2013
^ "The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt roost 1959 - Google Search". www.google.com.

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[1] Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). "Goldmine Record Album Price Guide". Penguin – via Google Books.

[Allmusic-2] Allmusic Review accessed January 3, 2013

[3] "The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt roost 1959 - Google Search". www.google.com.

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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)
And 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)
With 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)
With Don Patterson	Patterson's People (1964) Tune Up! (1964–69) The Boss Men (1965) Funk You! (1968) Brothers-4 (1969) Donny Brook (1969)
With 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)