Results for "Sonny Stitt"

The Hall Overton Centennial & More

by Marc Cohn
February 28, 2020

February birthdays on Gift & Messages with the Hall Overton centennial. We feature his arrangement of “Little Rootie Tootie" for the Thelonious Monk Orchestra, where Hall takes the piano solo from the Monk's first trio recording and orchestrates it for the entire big band! You'll hear both back-to-back. Stunning, for the arrangement and the playing, is ...

Camilla George: Warrior Charge

by Chris May
February 13, 2020

In 2017, alto saxophonist and composer Camilla George's band was the support act for a Dee Dee Bridgewater gig at the London Jazz Festival. After George had finished her set, Bridgewater, who had been listening in the wings, came onstage, took the mike, and announced: “The world is safe because we have Camilla." Others in Cadogan ...

Sonny Stitt

Born: February 2, 1924

Edward "Sonny" Stitt was a quintessential saxophonist of the bebop idiom. He was also one of the most prolific saxophonists, recording over 100 records in his lifetime. He was nicknamed the "Lone Wolf" by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern, due to his relentless touring and his devotion to jazz.

Stitt was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. Stitt had a musical background; his father taught music, his brother was a classically trained pianist, and his mother was a piano teacher. His earliest recordings were from 1945, with Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie. He had also experienced playing in some swing bands, though he mainly played in bop bands. Stitt featured in Tiny Bradshaw's big band in the early forties.

Vic Juris: Tension and Release

by Victor L. Schermer
January 2, 2020

This article was first published at All About Jazz on July 28, 2009. Vic Juris is one of the premier jazz guitarists in the business today. Perhaps less known than some of his peers, he is nevertheless admired by all of them and has accumulated, since his emergence on the scene in the 1970s, ...

Sonny Stitt Vol.2 Eight Classic Albums

By Sonny Stitt

Label: Reel To Reel Music Company
Released: 2019
Track listing: A Little Bit Of Stitt - 1959; When The Red, Red Robbin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobin' Along); For All We Know; I'm Confessin'; Cocktails For Two; Star Eyes; On A Slow Boat To China; Laura; J.B. Blues; Don't Take Your Love From Me; After The Late, Late Show; The Sonny Side Of Stitt - 1960; Skylark; Don't Worry 'Bout Me; I'll Remember April; Day By Day; Red Top; Moonray; Old Fashioned Blues; I Never Knew; Hitsburg; Stittsville - 1960; Angel Eyes; It All Depends On You; Stormy Thursday; Embraceable You; It Could Happen To You; But Not For Me; Memories Of You; I Cried For You; Bright As Snow; Spinning; Sonny Side Up - 1961; Sonny Side Up; On Green Dolphin Street; The More I See You; Don't Take Your Love From Me; My Blue Heaven; My Mother's Eyes; When I Grow Too Old To Dream; Bye Bye Blues; I've Got The World On A String; Boss Tenors (With Gene Ammons) - 1961; There Is No Greater Love; The One Before This; Autumn Leaves; Blues Up And Down; Counter Clockwise; Stitt Meets Brother Jack (With Jack McDuff) - 1962; All Of Me; Pam Ain't Blue; Time After Time; Ringin' In; Nother Fu'ther; When Sonny Gets Blue; Thirty-Three, Ninety-Six; Boss Tenors In Orbit (With Gene Ammons) - 1962; Long Ago And Far Away; Walkin'; Why I Was Born; John Brown's Body; Bye Bye Blackbird; Feelin's - 1962; O Solo Mio; Feelin's; Nightmare; S'Posin'; Look Up; Goodnight Ladies; If I Should Lose You; Hollerin' The Blues; Stretch Pants;

2019 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival

by Mackenzie Horne
July 7, 2019

Gary Bartz Liberty Avenue Stage Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival Pittsburgh, PA June 23, 2010 The 2019 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival featured a heavyweight lineup of world-renowned saxophone players, including Charles Lloyd, Nubya Garcia, and Gary Bartz. Bartz was scheduled to perform selections from Bitches Brew and In a Silent Way ...

John Lamkin: Transitions

by Karl Ackermann
July 4, 2019

Dr. John R. Lamkin, II has dedicated much of his career to bringing music to students and the community while recording little, so his many Mid-Atlantic fans will welcome Transitions, his first release in decades. His only prior album was Hot (Self-Produced, 1984), where the trumpeter wrote all but one composition. As Director of Bands and ...

Rick Lawn: The Evolution of Big Band Sounds in America

by Victor L. Schermer
July 2, 2019

From the latter part of the Jazz Age through the Swing Era, big bands dominated the jazz scene and a large part of the entertainment industry. After World War II, their fortunes declined, but their music soared to new heights, spurred on by innovative leaders, instrumentalists, and very importantly, the composers/arrangers who worked behind the scenes ...

Theo Croker: It's Just Black Music

by Keith Henry Brown
June 24, 2019

In a field teeming with talented young lions, the bright sound of trumpeter Theo Croker still sticks out. Grandson of the legendary jazz trumpeter Doc Cheatham, the native Floridian graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and is part of a new movement of emerging jazz artists who expertly incorporate hip hop, electronic and R&B elements ...

Take Five with Vasilis Xenopoulos

by AAJ Staff
May 27, 2019

About Vasilis Xenopoulos Saxophonist, composer and educator Vasilis Xenopoulos is one of the most accomplished Greek jazz musicians of his generation and a genuine representative of straight ahead jazz. London became his permanent home after graduating with honors from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and gradually established himself as one of London's ...