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The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Studio Recordings

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 148 performances, including two unissued tunes and 13 alternate takes

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Sonny Stitt: The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Studio Recordings

Read "The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Studio Recordings" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan
November 1, 2002

Easily one of the most recorded saxophonists in the annals of modern jazz history, saxophonist Sonny Stitt’s catalog is filled with almost equal portions of the inspired and the routine. At his best, he was a melody man who combined a love of Johnny Hodges’ rich sonorities with a bop-inflected tartness akin to that of Charlie ...

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Stitt's It

By Sonny Stitt

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2001

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Brothers - 4

By Sonny Stitt

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2001

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tenor battle at birdland

By Sonny Stitt

Label: Fresno
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. S.O.S. 2. Jaws 3. Marchin' 4. I Can't Get Started 5. Roller Coaster 6. All the Things You Are 7. Whoops 8. Don't Blame Me

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Brothers 4

By Sonny Stitt

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Brothers 4, Creepin' Home, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Walk On By, Donny Brook, Mud Turtle, St. Thomas, Good Bait, Starry Night, Tune Up.

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"Live" At The Left Bank

By Sonny Stitt

Label: Label M
Released: 2001
Track listing: Deuces Wild; Samba de Orpheus; Who Can I Turn To?; Cry Me a River; John Brown

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Sonny Stitt & Don Patterson: Brothers 4

by David Rickert
November 1, 2001

How much organ jazz does one really need? This album certainly raises the question. Ultimately the organ is best suited for gospel and blues-tinged workouts as Jimmy Smith proved. Ventures into much varied material, such as bossa novas and ballads, can be sketchy. Larry Young was one of the few who successfully expanded the range the ...

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Sonny Stitt: Just the Way It Was: "Live" at the Left Bank

Read "Just the Way It Was: "Live" at the Left Bank" reviewed by Matthew S. Robinson

by Matthew S. Robinson
August 1, 2001

To inaugurate his latest musical milestone, the starting of Label M, one of Jazz’s most underrated production legends, Joel Dorn, has taken a set of his musical counterpart, the electrifying saxophonist Sonny Stitt, from the vaults of the Left Bank Jazz Society and puts it back on vinyl (er... plastic) to sustain the Society’s mission of ...

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sonny stitt and eddie lockjaw davis: tenor battle at birdland

by Daniel Robt Patten
May 1, 2001

this great jam session was recorded in 1954. sonny stitt joined eddie"lockjaw"davis' organ trio for an afternoon at the famous birdland club. sonny and jaws took their turn romping through standards like don't blame me, i can't get started and all the things you are. both tenormen were in the prime of their great careers at ...