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The Battle of Birdland

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Released
  
1955

Label
  
Roost Records

Release date
  
1955

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
1954Birdland, New York City

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Artists
  
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Sonny Stitt

Similar
  
Sonny Stitt albums, Jazz albums

The Battle of Birdland (also released as Tenor Battle at Birdland and Jaws N' Stitt at Birdland) is a live album by saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Eddie Davis recorded at Birdland in New York City in 1954 and originally released on the Roost label.

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Reception

Scott Yanow, in his review for Allmusic, calls the album "a spirited and typically competitive jam session". The All About Jazz review stated "both tenormen were in the prime of their great careers at this stage and the music is wonderful... this recording is a particularily rare and memorable item indeed".

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated

  1. "Jaws" (Eddie Davis) - 9:55
  2. "I Can't Get Started" (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke) - 7:21
  3. "Marchin'" - 8:45
  4. "S.O.S." - 7:50
  5. "Whoops!" 8:17 additional track on CD release
  6. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 8:23 additional track on CD release
  7. "Rollercoaster" - 9:06 additional track on CD release
  8. "Don't Blame Me" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 7:51 additional track on CD release

Personnel

  • Eddie Davis, Sonny Stitt - tenor saxophone
  • Harry "Doc" Bagby - organ
  • Charlie Rice - drums

    • Songs

    1Marchin'8:53
    2SOS8:01
    3Jaws10:07

    References

    The Battle of Birdland Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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