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Sonny Stitt Swings the Most

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Released
  
1960

Release date
  
1960

Genre
  
Jazz

Artist
  
Sonny Stitt

Label
  
Verve Records

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Recorded
  
February 9 and December 21 & 23, 1959 New York City and Radio Recorder Studio in Los Angeles, California

Sonny Stitt Swings the Most (1959)
  
Sonny Stitt - Previously Unreleased Recordings (1960)

Similar
  
Sonny Stitt albums, Jazz albums

Sonny Stitt Swings the Most is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1959 and released on the Verve label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated

  1. "Lonesome Road" (Nathaniel Shilkret, Gene Austin) - 4:04
  2. "The Gypsy" (Billy Reid) - 4:03
  3. "That's The Way To Be" - 2:08
  4. "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) - 5:02
  5. "Jaunty" - 5:11
  6. "Blue Sunday" - 3:24
  7. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 5:02
  • Recorded in New York City on February 9 (tracks 3 & 7) and in Los Angeles, California on December 21 (track 6) and December 23 (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5), 1959

    • Personnel

  • Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Lou Levy (tracks 1, 2 & 4-6), Amos Trice (tracks 3 & 7) - piano
  • George Morrow (tracks 3 & 7), Leroy Vinnegar (tracks 1, 2 & 4-6) - bass
  • Mel Lewis (tracks 1, 2 & 4-6), Lenny McBrowne (tracks 3 & 7) - drums

    • References

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