Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio

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Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio
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Studio album by
Sonny Stitt
Released1959
RecordedMay 18, 1959
Genre Jazz
Length39:04
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz
Sonny Stitt chronology
A Little Bit of Stitt
(1959)		Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio
(1959)		 The Sonny Side of Stitt
(1959)
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Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1959 album by Sonny Stitt, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio. [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.

Oscar Peterson Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, but simply "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, and received numerous other awards and honours. He is considered one of the greatest jazz pianists, and played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years.

Contents

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]

<i>The Penguin Guide to Jazz</i> book

The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which were currently available in Europe or the United States. The first nine editions were compiled by Richard Cook and Brian Morton, two well known chroniclers of jazz resident in the United Kingdom.

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

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

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.

Ray Brown (musician) American jazz double bassist and cellist

Raymond Matthews Brown was an American jazz double bassist known for extensive work with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Allmusic review
  2. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th Ed.) Penguin Books. ISBN   9780140515213
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