Sonny Stitt & Red Holloway - Forecast: Sonny & Red (Remastered) (2026) [Hi-Res]

Experience a musical dialogue between two of the most virtuosic tenor sax players to grace the stage. As bandleaders, composers, innovators and musicians, these two jazzmen are celebrated alongside the likes of Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Jazz historian Scott Yanow stated “Sonny Stitt and Red Holloway make a perfect team on this exciting jam session record... Holloway was able to keep up with the combative Stitt and the fireworks are well worth savoring.”

A great session of 70s bop revival from the team of Sonny Stitt and Red Holloway -- working here in the warm and sunny style of the great Catalyst label! The album Forecast has the two hornmen blowing to acoustic accompaniment from a trio that includes Art Hillary on piano, Larry Gales on bass, and Clarence Johnston on drums -- jamming in boppish formation on tunes that include "Lester Leaps In", "The Way You Look Tonight", "Forecast: Sonny & Red", and "All God's Chillun". Even better is the second album on the set -- Partners -- which has the pair working with a bit of electric keyboards from Frank Strazzeri, and an expanded rhythm section that includes some conga -- all of which makes for a sound that's rounder, warmer, and overall more in the mellow modal mode of the best Catalyst sides of the 70s.

"Stitt sticks here to tenor while Holloway alternates between tenor and alto. With fine backup by pianist Art Hillery, bassist Larry Gales and drummer Clarence Johnston, Sonny and Red share a ballad medley and battle it out on the title cut, "The Way You Look Tonight," "Lester Leaps In," "Just Friends" and "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm." Holloway was able to keep up with the combative Stitt and the fireworks are well worth savoring." (Scott Yanow, AMG