Gary Shivers on Jazz; Art Pepper/Sonny Stitt Part 3

A Blues, played by Sonny Stitt on tenor saxophone, and assigned the title eight track blues when it was released on Paula Records. The recording was made in 1973 in Chicago, and the rhythm section had Cleveland Eton, who's now with Count Basie on bass. Wilbur Campbell was the drummer, and the pianist was Richard Abrams. Muhal Richard Abrams no longer plays straight blues very often anymore, but that was Richard Abrams on piano with Sonny Stitt playing tenor saxophone in eight track blues. The album on Paula Records was Soul Girl. Sonny Stitt, like Art Pepper, died during the summer of 1982, and I wanted to hear some of the music of this great saxophonist, inspired like so many others, virtually all others, by Charlie Parker, Sonny Stitt, perhaps as much as anyone else, much admired by Charlie

Parker himself, and admired both as alto saxophonist and as tenor saxophonist. We said we'd be hearing some records of Sonny Stitt in combination with other saxophonists. We've heard him with Zoot Sims. Here he is with the great Paul Gonzalez, the late tenor saxophonist, who spent some twenty years with Duke Ellington's orchestra, and like every uniquely individual voice in Ellington's band contributed to a new era in the band. In fact, he contributed much to the rejuvenation of Ellington's band in the mid-fifties with an appearance at Newport in 1956. Paul Gonzalez is the other tenor saxophonist here, and an album made for impulse records in 1963 called Salt and Pepper by Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonzalez. They are surrounded by a fabulous rhythm section, Hank Jones on piano, Milt Hinton bass, and O.C. Johnson drums. And we'll hear the title Music Salt and Pepper, which is a long, rapid blues, which in a rather brief space of time, it's fast enough that it accommodates a lot of solo space.

The first two choruses are shared by the two tenors of Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonzalez. Paul Gonzalez has the first solo space for thirteen choruses, then Sonny Stitt for 15 choruses, and then they have some exchanges of full choruses and twos and fors through the end of Salt and Pepper, the two tenors of Paul Gonzalez and Sonny Stitt. Let's sing along. .

.. .. .. .. ... ... .. ... Music by Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonzalez on tenor saxophones with a fine rhythm section.

Frank Jones was the pianist, Milt Hinton bass and OC Johnson drums. The music was salt and pepper, the title track from an album on impulse records, made in 1963 by Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonzalez. Another of the saxophonist Sonny Stitt was associated with very frequently was Gene Ammons, the late Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt recorded together often on for some 25 years, from 1949 until Ammon's death in the mid 70s. This is a 1962 session for verb records called their back, the boss tenors in orbit, the boss tenors were Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, and their rhythm section is William

James Drums, Paul Whedon guitar, and Donald Patterson organ. On the selection we're going to hear Sonny Stitt plays alto with Gene Ammons on tenor, so it'll be easier to tell them apart, so you'll know the difference anyway with Gene Ammons big, full, robust tone and Sonny Stitt playing alto in music of Jerome Kern called why was I born? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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And I want you to hear something we rarely do together, but I want to do it in this case because sunny-stitt solo is so distinguished on on on on this throughout this concert tour really his solos were all He was at his best but on this particular selection his solo is so good that I want you to hear just his solo Well, here's the introduction and his solo which comes first in order in in part of the recording of Evans Ave recorded live the Victoria theater in London in 1972 the other horns are Dizzy Gillespie and K. Winding the rhythm section again Thronius Monk piano alma kibbon bass art Blakey drums sunny-stitt is the alto saxophonist in a portion of their performance of Evans Ave Sunday-stitt's solo from Evans Ave

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Coast, boots and everything Leave your worries on the doors Now it's going to turn on by Just direct your feet You'll look neat on the sunny Side of the street It's strange, can't you hear the pitter and the patter of the raindrops, trickling on your five-slip and ladder, life could be so fine. Time is mine, I used to want to walk in the shade with my boots on the rain. What? I'm not afraid. It's over. That's the robot, yeah.

I never had one scent. I've been rich as Rocky fella. On the sunny side of the street, recorded in 1957, by two sunnies, Sonny Rollins, who had the first solo antenna, and Sonny Stitt, with Dizzy Gillespie, Trumpet and Vocal, and the rhythm section of the great Ray Bryant and piano, his brother Tom Bryant on bass and Charlie Percip on drums. Recordings made in 1957 and reissued on the Verve series of double albums in the United States, and Dizzy Gillespie's collection is called the Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt Sessions, including all the recordings that group made together in 1957.

Sonny Stitt and Art Pepper, two brilliant and innovative and terribly influential and terribly well-loved saxophonists in jazz died during the summer of 1982. Here's another performance with Sonny Stitt from one of his most satisfying albums, I think, made in the mid-60s for Atlantic Records, the album Stitt plays Bird, a collection of compositions by and about and around, one of his idols, Charlie Parker. This music is Hootie Blues, it was written by J. McShan, and it was one of Charlie Parker's first recordings in 1942, with the J. McShan's Kansas City Orchestra. Hootie Blues is played here by Sonny Stitt, with the rhythm section of John Lewis Piano, Jim Hall guitar, Richard Davis bass and Connie K. Drums, from Stitt plays Bird, this is Hootie Blues featuring Sonny Stitt. Hootie Blues plays Bird,

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