{"product_id":"sonny-stitt-milestones-of-a-jazz-legend-10-cds","title":"SONNY STITT: MILESTONES OF A JAZZ LEGEND (10 CDS)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/about_this_recording_transparent_black_shadow_2_b77963a3-5389-4c76-ba1b-8545b94ef0d6_480x480.png?v=1627648036\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A great documentation of the \"Lone Wolf\" and his greatest albums from the Fifties and early Sixties. Includes 19 original albums on 10CD's by one of Bebops's greatest sax-soloists after Charlie Parker\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeat. 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 Eckstine's legendary orchestra, where he also met Dexter Gordon, as well as the tenor-saxophonist Gene Ammons. The latter also joined Stitt's 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 Stitt's 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 FAVORITES VOLUME I - II 45:12\u003cbr\u003e2 KALEIDOSCOPE - SONNY STITT EDDIE DAVIS - THE BATTLE OF BIRDLAND 68:10\u003cbr\u003e3 NEW YORK JAZZ 46:03\u003cbr\u003e4 ONLY THE BLUES - A LITTLE BIT OF STITT 78:36\u003cbr\u003e5 SONNY STITT SITS IN WITH THE OSCAR PETERSON TRIO - SONNY STITT BLOWS THE BLUES 76:26\u003cbr\u003e6 PERSONAL APPEARANCE - STITTSVILLE 79:47\u003cbr\u003e7 SONNY STITT \u0026amp; TOP BRASS - SONNY STITT WITH JACK MCDUFF, STITT MEETS BROTHER JACK 73:43\u003cbr\u003e8 THE SONNY SIDE OF STITT - GENE AMMONS7SONNY STITT, BOSS TENORS 71:55\u003cbr\u003e9 THE HARD SWING - SONNY SIDE UP 77:26\u003cbr\u003e10 SAXOPHONE SUPREMACY - FEELIN'S 73:45\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_transparent_blue_background_3_478f2e3d-3f4d-4a5d-a8b0-afd7105c364b_480x480.png?v=1627647663\" alt=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_transparent_blue_background_3_478f2e3d-3f4d-4a5d-a8b0-afd7105c364b_480x480.png?v=1627647663\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAin't Misbehavin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter You're Gone\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStairway To The Stars\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlazin'\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNice Work If You Can Get It\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOur Very Own\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere'll Never Be Another You\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLater\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eS' Wonderful\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDown With It\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJeepers Creepers\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor The Fat Man\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSplinter\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConfessin'\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSonny Sounds\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStitt's It\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStitt's It\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCool Mambo\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlue Mambo\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSonny Sounds\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAin't Misbehaving\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLater\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eP.S. I Love You\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis Can't Be Love\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImagination\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCherokee\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCan't We Be Friends\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiza\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJaws\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI Can't Get Started\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarchin'\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eS.O.S.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNorman's Blues\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI Know That You Know\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf I Had You\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlone Together\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwelfth Street Rag\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDown Home Blues (Funky Blues)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSonny's Tune\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStars Fell on Alabama\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBody and Soul\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBetween the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe String (The Eternal Triangle)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCleveland Blues\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB.W. Blues (Boogie Woogie Blues)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlues for Bags\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor All We Know\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI'm Confessin' (That I Love You)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCocktails for Two\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStar Eyes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn a Slow Boat to China\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLaura\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJ. B. 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Not For Me\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMemories of You\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI Cried for You\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBright as Snow\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpinning\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSouls Valley\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoquette\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn A Misty Night\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStittsie\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoinciana\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBoom-Boom\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSea Sea Rider\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Four Ninety\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHey Pam\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll of Me\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePam Ain't Blue\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime After Time\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRingin' In\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNother Fu'ther\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Sonny Gets Blue\u003cbr 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