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Mr. Bojangles (album)

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Released
  
1973

Length
  
36:21

Producer
  
Esmond Edwards

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
Cadet CA 50026

Recorded
  
1973 Sound Exchange Studios, New York City

Mr. Bojangles is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1973 and released on the Cadet label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3½ stars stating "Mr. Bojangles pairs Sonny Stitt with arranger Don Sebesky for one of the smoothest and most mainstream-facing dates of the saxophonist's career. Sebesky's luminous treatments underscore the elegance of Stitt's soulful alto and tenor leads".

Track listing

  1. "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) - 7:31
  2. "World Is a Ghetto" (Papa Dee Allen, Harold Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott) - 6:56
  3. "Killing Me Softly With His Song" (Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) - 4:41
  4. "Blue Monsoon" (Esmond Edwards) - 5:06
  5. "Got to Be There" (Elliot Willensky) - 3:33
  6. "Fifty Per Cent" (Sonny Stitt) - 3:38
  7. "Ben" (Donald Black, Walter Scharf) - 4:56

Personnel

  • Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Roland Hanna - electric piano
  • Cornell Dupree - guitar
  • Richard Davis - electric bass
  • Jimmy Johnson - drums
  • George Marge - alto flute, oboe
  • Jimmy Buffington - French Horn
  • Gloria Agostini - harp
  • Phil Kraus - vibraphone, xylophone, percussion
  • Warren Smith - percussion
  • David Nadien, Harold Kobain, Emmanuel Green, Gene Orloff, Paul Gershman, Harry Lookofsky, Joseph Malia - violin
  • Charles McCracken, George Ricci cello
  • Don Sebesky - arranger, conductor

    • References

    Mr. Bojangles (album) Wikipedia
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