Forecast: Sonny & Red

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Forecast: Sonny & Red
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Studio album by Sonny Stitt with Red Holloway
Released 1976
Recorded 1976
Sage & Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA
Genre Jazz
Label Catalyst
CAT-7608
Producer Pat Britt
Sonny Stitt chronology
Stomp Off Let's Go
(1976) Stomp Off Let's Go1976		Forecast: Sonny & Red
(1976)		 I Remember Bird
(1976) I Remember Bird1976
Red Holloway chronology
Red Soul
(1965) Red Soul1965		Forecast: Sonny & Red
(1976) Forecast: Sonny & Red1976		 Hittin' the Road Again
(1982) Hittin' the Road Again1982

Forecast: Sonny & Red is an album by American jazz saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Red Holloway featuring performances recorded in 1976 for the Catalyst label. [1]

Sonny Stitt American jazz saxophonist

Edward Hammond Boatner Jr., known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone, he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording more than 100 albums. He was nicknamed the "Lone Wolf" by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern because of his relentless touring and devotion to jazz. Stitt was sometimes viewed as a Charlie Parker mimic, especially earlier in his career, but gradually came to develop his own sound and style, particularly when performing on tenor sax.

Red Holloway American jazz tenor saxophonist

James Wesley "Red" Holloway was an American jazz saxophonist.

Catalyst Records was a record company and label that specialized in jazz. It was formed in Los Angeles in 1975. Catalyst released both new recordings and reissues. The catalogue was available through the 1980s, though recording ceased in 1977. This label is different from the subsidiary of BMG which was founded in the early 1990s.

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Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated, "Sonny Stitt and Red Holloway make a perfect team on this exciting jam session record... Holloway was able to keep up with the combative Stitt and the fireworks are well worth savoring". [2]

Track listing

  1. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 5:20
  2. "Forecast: Sonny & Red" (Art Hillery) - 4:50
  3. "You Don't Know What Love Is/I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (Gene de Paul, Don Ray/George Bassman, Ned Washington) - 10:45
  4. "Lester Leaps In" (Lester Young) - 6:42
  5. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) - 6:20
  6. "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronisław Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn) - 4:00

Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E♭, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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References

  1. ↑ Catalyst Records 7600 series discography accessed April 29, 2016
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Forecast: Sonny & Red – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 29, 2016.
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