Sonny Stitt - Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 1-10 '2018

Tracks list

Tracklist

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 1
01. Aint Misbehavin Aint Misbehavin
02. After Youve Gone (Radio Version) After Youve Gone
03. Stairway to the Stars
04. Blazin
05. Nice Work If You Can Get It (Live Version) A Damsel in Distress Nice Work If
You Can Get It
06. Our Very Own
07. Iceland There Will Never Be Another You
08. Later
09. Funny Face Funny Face S Wonderful!
10. Down With It
11. Going Places Going Places Jeepers Creepers
12. For The Fat Man
13. Splinter
14. Im Confessin (That I Love You)
15. Sonny Sounds
16. Stitts It

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 2
01. Stitts It
02. Cool Mambo
03. Blue Mambo
04. Sonny Sounds
05. Aint Misbehavin Aint Misbehavin
06. Later
07. P.S. I Love You
08. This Cant Be Love The Boys from Syracuse This Cant Be Love
09. Imagination
10. Cherokee Indian Suite I. Cherokee
11. Cant We Be Friends
12. Liza Show Girl Liza
13. Jaws
14. I Cant Get Started
15. Marchin
16. S.O.S.

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 3
01. Normans Blues
02. I Know That You Know
03. If I Had You
04. Alone Together
05. Twelfth Street Rag
06. Down Home Blues (Funky Blues)
07. Sonnys Tune
08. Stars Fell On Alabama
09. Body and Soul
10. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 4
01. The String (The Eternal Triangle)
02. Cleveland Blues
03. B.W. Blues
04. Blues for Bags
05. When The Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin Along
06. Seven Lively Arts Seven Lively Arts For All We Know
07. Im Confessin (That I Love You)
08. Cocktails For Two
09. Star Eyes I Dood It Star Eyes
10. On a Slow Boat to China
11. Laura
12. J.B. Blues
13. Dont Take Your Love from Me
14. After the Late, Late Show

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 5
01. I Cant Give You Anything but Love
02. Au Privave
03. The Gypsy
04. Ill Remember April
05. Scrapple from the Apple
06. Moten Swing
07. Blues for Pres, Sweets, Ben and All the Other Funky Ones
08. Easy Does It
09. Blue Devil Blues
10. Home Free Blues
11. Blue Prelude
12. Frankie and Johnny
13. George Whites Scandals of 1926 The Birth of the Blues
14. A Blues Offering
15. Hymnal Blues
16. Morning After Blues

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 6
01. Youd Be so Easy to Love (From Anything Goes)
02. Easy Living (From Easy Living)
03. Autumn in New York
04. Youd Be so Nice to Come Home To (From Something to Shout About)
05. For Some Friends
06. I Never Knew
07. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
08. East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
09. Original
10. Avalon
11. Blues Greasy
12. Angel Eyes
13. It All Depends On You (From Big Boy)
14. Stormy Thursday
15. Embraceable You (from Girl Crazy)
16. It Could Happen to You (From And the Angels Sing)
17. But Not for Me (From Girl Crazy)
18. Memories of You
19. I Cried for You
20. Bright as Snow
21. Spinning

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 7
01. Souls Valley
02. Coquette
03. On a Misty Night
04. Stittsie
05. Poinciana
06. Boom-Boom
07. Sea Sea Rider
08. The Four Ninety
09. Hey Pam
10. All of Me
11. Pam Aint Blue
12. Time After Time (From It Happened in Brooklyn)
13. Ringin In
14. Nother Futher
15. When Sonny Gets Blue
16. Thirty-Three, Ninety-Six

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 8
01. Skylark
02. Dont Worry Bout Me
03. Ill Remember April
04. Day By Day
05. Red Top (Live) Red Top
06. Moonray
07. Old Fashioned Blues
08. Canary Cottage Canary Cottage I Never Knew
09. Hitsburg
10. There Is No Greater Love
11. The One Before This
12. Autumn Leaves (Live) Les feuilles mortes (Autumn Leaves)
13. Blues Up and Down
14. Counter Clockwise

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 9
01. I Got Rhythm
02. Whats New
03. Subito
04. If I Had You
05. Ill Remember April
06. Blues for Lester
07. After Youve Gone
08. Street of Dreams
09. The Way You Look Tonight
10. Presto
11. Tune Up
12. Sonny Side Up
13. On Green Dolphin Street
14. The More I See You
15. Dont Take Your Love from Me
16. My Blue Heaven
17. My Mothers Eyes
18. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
19. Bye Bye Blues
20. Ive Got the World on a String

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 10
01. I Cover the Waterfront
02. Lazybones
03. Sunday
04. Just Friends
05. All of Me
06. Two Bad Days Blues
07. Its You or No One
08. Blue Smile
09. O sole mio (Arr. for Jazz Ensemble)
10. Feelins
11. Nightmare
12. Sposin
13. Look Up
14. Goodnight, Ladies
15. If I Should Lose You (From Rose of the Rancho)
16. Hollerin the Blues
17. Stretch Pants



Feat. Gene Ammons, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Oscar Peterson, Roy Eldridge, Art
Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, Roy Haynes, Ray Brown, Brother Jack McDuff, Herb
Ellis. The saxophonist Sonny Stitt (1924-1982) recorded more than 100 albums as
a leader. After first hearing Charlie Parker on a recording with Jay McShann as
a fifteen-year-old, he switched from clarinet to the alto saxophone and began
playing in swing orchestras, including the Tiny Bradshaw Band. In 1943, he met
Parker (1920-1955) in person for the first time, and the latter was surprised
just how similar the two of them sounded. This may have caused Stitt to also
start playing tenor and baritone saxophone. In any case, Dizzy Gillespie was so
impressed with his playing, that he immediately hired Stitt after Parker left
his band and also kept inviting him for recordings. The masterpieces featuring
Gillespie with Stitt and Sonny Rollins were already documented on the respective
wallets of Dizzy Gillespie and on I Love New York Jazz. Another milestone for
the young Stitt was his membership in Billy Eckstines legendary orchestra, where
he also met Dexter Gordon, as well as the tenor-saxophonist Gene Ammons. The
latter also joined Stitts septet (1949-52), and they kept on recording together,
with Boss Tenors the climax among many a top record. Our selection documents
exemplary highlights of Stitts work in the fifties and early sixties. In
addition to the standard format presenting Stitt with an excellent rhythm
section, there were often enough interesting constellations with important
musicians such as trumpeter Roy Eldridge, pianist Oscar Peterson, tenor player
Eddie Lockjaw Davis and organists like Jack McDuff and Don Patterson. Stitt and
Top Brass is one of the few large ensembles with which he recorded as a
bandleader, and the album also proves him to be one of the great soloists of
Bebop: with just those, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and a few
others, he toured the world under the name Giants Of Jazz in the years before
his death, an ensemble that was also recorded live and in the studio.

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