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Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio

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Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio
Studio album by
Released1959
RecordedMay 18, 1959
GenreJazz
Length39:04
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Sonny Stitt chronology
A Little Bit of Stitt
(1959)
Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio
(1959)
Sonny Side Up
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Penguin Guide to Jazz[2]

Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1959 album by Sonny Stitt, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio.[1]

Reception

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz rated the album three and a half stars out of four and wrote of the session, "they intermingle their respective many-noted approaches as plausibly as if this were a regular band (in fact, they never recorded together again)."[2] The Allmusic review written by Scott Yanow rated the album four and a half stars out of five.[1]

Track listing

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  1. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:05
  2. "Au Privave" (Charlie Parker) – 3:59
  3. "The Gypsy" (Billy Reid) – 3:25
  4. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 4:41
  5. "Scrapple from the Apple" (Parker) – 4:20
  6. "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten) – 7:09
  7. "Blues for Pres, Sweets, Ben and All the Other Funky Ones" (Sonny Stitt) – 6:04
  8. "Easy Does It" (Sy Oliver, Trummy Young) – 5:21

Personnel

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Performance

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Oscar Peterson Trio

References

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  1. ^ a b c Allmusic review
  2. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th Ed.) Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140515213