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

Tracklist

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 1
01. Ain't Misbehavin Ain't Misbehavin'
02. After You've Gone (Radio Version) After You've 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. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
15. Sonny Sounds
16. Stitt's It

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 2
01. Stitt's It
02. Cool Mambo
03. Blue Mambo
04. Sonny Sounds
05. Ain't Misbehavin Ain't Misbehavin'
06. Later
07. P.S. I Love You
08. This Can't Be Love The Boys from Syracuse This Can't Be Love
09. Imagination
10. Cherokee Indian Suite I. Cherokee
11. Can't We Be Friends
12. Liza Show Girl Liza
13. Jaws
14. I Can't Get Started
15. Marchin'
16. S.O.S.

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 3
01. Norman's 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. Sonny's 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. I'm 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. Don't Take Your Love from Me
14. After the Late, Late Show

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 5
01. I Can't Give You Anything but Love
02. Au Privave
03. The Gypsy
04. I'll 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 White's 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. You'd Be so Easy to Love (From Anything Goes)
02. Easy Living (From Easy Living)
03. Autumn in New York
04. You'd 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 Ain't Blue
12. Time After Time (From It Happened in Brooklyn)
13. Ringin' In
14. 'Nother Fu'ther
15. When Sonny Gets Blue
16. Thirty-Three, Ninety-Six

Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Sonny Stitt, Vol. 8
01. Skylark
02. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
03. I'll 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. What's New
03. Subito
04. If I Had You
05. I'll Remember April
06. Blues for Lester
07. After You've 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. Don't Take Your Love from Me
16. My Blue Heaven
17. My Mother's Eyes
18. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
19. Bye Bye Blues
20. I've 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. It's You or No One
08. Blue Smile
09. O sole mio (Arr. for Jazz Ensemble)
10. Feelin's
11. Nightmare
12. S'posin'
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 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.

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