| Rearin' Back | ||||
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| Released | 1962 | |||
| Recorded | September 24, 1962 Ter-Mar Recording Studio, Chicago, Illinois | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Argo LP 709 | |||
| Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
| Sonny Stitt chronology | ||||
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Rearin' Back is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1962 and released on the Argo label. [3]
Down Beat magazine's Harvey Pekar said in his April 11, 1963 review that "Stitt solos brilliantly... Stitt conceives and executes extremely complex passages so easily that some have come to take his work for granted."
All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated
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