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árajánlatot! |
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| 1. | Tune Up
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| 2. | I Can't Get Started
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| 3. | Idaho
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| 4. | Just Friends
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| 5. | Blues For Prez And Bird
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| 6. | Groovin' High
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| 7. | I Got Rhythm
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| 8. | Constellation
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| 9. | A Ghost Of A Chance
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| 10. | Webb City
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| 11. | By Accident
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| 12. | Ray's Idea
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| 13. | Casbah
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| 14. | It's Magic
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| 15. | Topsy.
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Jazz / Soul-Jazz
Sonny Stitt - alto sax, tenor sax
Barry Harris - piano
on all tracks, plus:
Tracks #1-7 from "TUNE UP!":
Sam Jones (b) & Alan Dawson (d)
Recorded in New York, February 8, 1972
Tracks #8-15 from "CONSTELLATION":
Sam Jones (b) & Roy Brooks (d)
Recorded in New York, June 27, 1972
Excellent two-fer from this Jazz quartet featuring two albums originally released in 1972: Tune Up and Constellation. When these recordings were made, Sonny Stitt had already attained the status of living legend. With his career reignited by the successful European Giants Of Jazz tour, Stitt, once again, became talk of the town. The two albums contained on this CD reunited Stitt with his old Bebop comrade Barry Harris.
When these recordings were made, Stitt (born in Boston, MA, on February 2, 1924) had already attained the status of living legend. Largely obscured in the Forties and Fifties by his mentor and obvious inspiration, Charlie Parker, Stitt began to receive his share of the spotlight in the Sixties. He joined producer George Wein's Giants of Jazz project in 1971, which reunited such distinguished friends as Dizzy Gillespie, ThTh elonious Monk, Kai Winding, Al McKibbon, Art Blakey and, of course, Sonny Stitt, for a short lived but very successful European tour.
The new exposure induced record producers to pay attention to Sonny and to offer him new and better recording opportunities. The result yielded these two LPs, which rekindled Sonny's association with his old comrade Barry Harris.
Two of the best bebop players ever, Sonny Stitt and Barry Harris, made an exceptionally good team. Th e duo's fi rst two releases from that period are included in this splendid CD.
Sonny Stitt
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s
Born: Feb 02, 1924 in Boston, MA
Died: Jul 22, 1982 in Washington, D.C.
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Soul-Jazz, Standards
Charlie Parker has had many admirers and his influence can be detected in numerous styles, but few have been as avid a disciple as Sonny Sitt. There was almost note-for-note imitation in several early Stitt solos, and the closeness remained until Stitt began de-emphasizing the alto in favor of the tenor, on which he artfully combined the influences of Parker and Lester Young. Stitt gradually developed his own sound and style, though he was never far from Parker on any alto solo. A wonderful blues and ballad player whose approach influenced John Coltrane, Stitt could rip through an up-tempo bebop stanza, then turn around and play a shivering, captivating ballad. He was an alto saxophonist in Tiny Bradshaw's band during the early '40s, then joined Billy Eckstine's seminal big band in 1945, playing alongside other emerging bebop stars like Gene Ammons and Dexter Gordon. Stitt later played in Dizzy Gillespie's big band and sextet. He began on tenor and baritone in 1949, and at times was in a two-tenor unit with Ammons. He recorded with Bud Powell and J.J. Johnson for Prestige in 1949, then did several albums on Prestige, Argo, and Verve in the '50s and '60s. Stitt led many combos in the '50s, and re-joined Gillespie for a short period in the late '50s. After a brief stint with Miles Davis in 1960, he reunited with Ammons and for a while was in a three-tenor lineup with James Moody. During the '60s, Stitt also recorded for Atlantic, cutting the transcendent Stitt Plays Bird, which finally addressed the Parker question in epic fashion. He continued heading bands, though he joined the Giants of Jazz in the early '70s. This group included Gillespie, Art Blakey, Kai Winding, Thelonious Monk, and Al McKibbon. Stitt did more sessions in the '70s for Cobblestone, Muse, and others, among them another definitive date, Tune Up. He continued playing and recording in the early '80s, recording for Muse, Sonet, and Who's Who in Jazz. He suffered a heart attack and died in 1982.
---Ron Wynn and Bob Porter, All Music Guide |
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