Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio

Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio
Studio album by Sonny Stitt
Released	1959
Recorded	May 18, 1959
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:04
Label	Verve
Producer	Norman Granz
Sonny Stitt chronology
A Little Bit of Stitt (1959) Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1959) Sonny Side Up (1959)
Oscar Peterson chronology
Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (1959) Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1959) Plays the Duke Ellington Song book (1960)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	[2]

Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1959 album by Sonny Stitt, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio. ^[1]

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz rated the album three and a half stars out of four and wrote of the session, "they intermingle their respective many-noted approaches as plausibly as if this were a regular band (in fact, they never recorded together again)." ^[2] The Allmusic review written by Scott Yanow rated the album four and a half stars out of five. ^[1]

Track listing

1. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:05
2. "Au Privave" (Charlie Parker) – 3:59
3. "The Gypsy" (Billy Reid) – 3:25
4. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 4:41
5. "Scrapple from the Apple" (Parker) – 4:20
6. "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten) – 7:09
7. "Blues for Pres, Sweets, Ben and All the Other Funky Ones" (Sonny Stitt) – 6:04
8. "Easy Does It" (Sy Oliver, Trummy Young) – 5:21

Personnel

Performance

• Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone (tracks 1-5), tenor saxophone (tracks 6-8)

Oscar Peterson Trio

• Oscar Peterson – piano
• Ray Brown – double bass
• Ed Thigpen - drums

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th Ed.) Penguin Books. ISBN   9780140515213