Jazz at the Hi-Hat
1955 live album by Sonny Stitt
Jazz at the Hi-Hat | ||||
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Live album by Sonny Stitt | ||||
Released | 1955 | |||
Recorded | February 11, 1954 | |||
Venue | The Hi-Hat, Boston, Massachusetts | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Roost RLP 418 | |||
Producer | Teddy Reig | |||
Sonny Stitt chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Jazz at the Hi-Hat is a live album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in Boston in 1954 and originally released on the Roost label as a four track 10 inch LP.[2] The original album has been expanded with additional material and released on CD in two volumes.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states, "this CD gives one a good all-around sampling of early Sonny Stitt".[1]
Track listing
All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated
Volume 1:
- "Blue and Sentimental" (Count Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston) – 3:08
- "Thou Swell" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
- "Every Tub" (Basie, Eddie Durham)
- "Pennies from Heaven" (Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnston)
- "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 5:00 additional track on CD release
- "I'm in the Mood for Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:43 additional track on CD release
- "Tri–Horn Blues" additional track on CD release
- "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 4:43 additional track on CD release
- "(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 5:04 additional track on CD release
- "Wigwam" – 2:53 additional track on CD release
- "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George Norton) additional track on CD release
- "Flying Home" (Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Sydney Robin) – 3:14 additional track on CD release
Volume 2:
- "S.O.S. (Columbus Avenue Rhythm)" – 8:06
- "Rockin' at the Hi-Hat" – 2:23
- "(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (Hanley, MacDonald) – 3:14
- "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:24
- "Lover" (Hart, Rodgers) – 3:04
- "Flying Home" (Goodman, Hampton, Robin) – 2:55
- "Mass Ave. Swing" – 2:29
- "They Say It's Wonderful" (Irving Berlin) – 2:10
- "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie, Durham) – 12:22
- "Jeepers Creepers" (Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren) – 4:16
- "Baritone Blues" – 4:01
- "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) – 6:10
- "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 3:53
- "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Ted Shapiro) – 1:59
- "Jumpin' with Symphony Sid" (Lester Young) – 2:42
Personnel
- Sonny Stitt – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
- Dean Earl – piano
- Bernie Griggs – bass
- Marquis Foster – drums
References
- ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed January 2, 2013
- ^ Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Royal Roost/Roost Album Discography Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine accessed January 2, 2013
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
leader or
co-leader
- Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50)
- Stitt's Bits (1950)
- Kaleidoscope (1950–52)
- Jazz at the Hi-Hat (1954)
- The Battle of Birdland (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1954)
- Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (1955)
- Sonny Stitt Plays (1955)
- New York Jazz (1956)
- For Musicians Only (with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, 1956)
- 37 Minutes and 48 Seconds with Sonny Stitt (c.1956/57)
- Only the Blues (1957)
- Personal Appearance (1957)
- Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers (1957)
- Burnin' (1958)
- Sonny Stitt (1958)
- The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt (1958)
- A Little Bit of Stitt (1959)
- Saxophone Supremacy (1959)
- Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues (1959)
- Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements (1959)
- Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1959)
- Sonny Side Up (with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins, Verve, 1959)
- Sonny Stitt Swings the Most (1959)
- The Hard Swing (1959)
- The Sonny Side of Stitt (1959)
- Previously Unreleased Recordings (1960)
- Sonny Side Up (Roost, 1960)
- Stittsville (1960)
- Stitt in Orbit (1960–62)
- Sonny Stitt at the D. J. Lounge (1961)
- The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt (1961)
- Feelin's (1962)
- Low Flame (1962)
- Rearin' Back (1962)
- Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (1962)
- Stitt Meets Brother Jack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1962)
- Move on Over (1963)
- My Mother's Eyes (1963)
- Now! (1963)
- Primitivo Soul! (1963)
- Salt and Pepper (and Paul Gonsalves, 1963)
- Soul Shack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1963)
- Stitt Goes Latin (1963)
- Stitt Plays Bird (1963)
- My Main Man (and Bennie Green, 1964)
- Shangri-La (with Don Patterson, 1964)
- Sax Expressions (1965)
- Sonny Stitt / Live at Ronnie Scott's (with Dick Morrissey, 1965)
- Soul People (with Booker Ervin and Don Patterson, 1964–69)
- Broadway Soul (1965)
- Inter-Action (and Zoot Sims, 1965)
- Night Crawler (with Don Patterson, 1965)
- Pow! (with Bennie Green, 1965)
- The Matadors Meet the Bull (1965)
- Deuces Wild (1966)
- I Keep Comin' Back! (1966)
- Soul in the Night (and Bunky Green, 1966)
- What's New!!! (1966)
- Parallel-a-Stitt (1967)
- Little Green Apples (1968)
- Soul Electricity! (1968)
- Come Hither (1969)
- Night Letter (1969)
- Black Vibrations (1971)
- Turn It On! (1971)
- 12! (1972)
- Constellation (1972)
- Goin' Down Slow (1972)
- Tune-Up! (1972)
- Mr. Bojangles (1973)
- The Champ (1973)
- Satan (1974)
- Blues for Duke (1975)
- Dumpy Mama (1975)
- Mellow (1975)
- My Buddy: Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons (1975)
- Forecast: Sonny & Red (with Red Holloway, 1976)
- I Remember Bird (1978)
- Stomp Off Let's Go (1976)
- Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington (1977)
- In Style (1981)
- The Last Sessions (1982)
Gene
Ammons
- All Star Sessions (1950–55)
- Dig Him! (1961)
- Boss Tenors (1961)
- Boss Tenors in Orbit! (1962)
- Soul Summit (with "Brother"Jack McDuff, 1962)
- You Talk That Talk! (1971)
- God Bless Jug and Sonny (1973)
- Left Bank Encores (1973)
- Together Again for the Last Time (1973)
Dizzy
Gillespie
- The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956)
- Duets (1957)
- The Giants of Jazz (with Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Kai Winding, 1971)
- The Bop Session (1975)
Don
Patterson
- Patterson's People (1964)
- Tune Up! (1964–69)
- The Boss Men (1965)
- Funk You! (1968)
- Brothers-4 (1969)
- Donny Brook (1969)
others
- A Jazz Message (with Art Blakey, 1963)
- In Walked Sonny (with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, 1975)
- The Oscar Peterson Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957)