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Released | 1984 (1984) |
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Genre | Jazz |
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Label | Muse |
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Just in Case You Forgot How Bad He Really Was (1981)
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The Last Sessions (1984)
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The Last Sessions is a two-volume album by Sonny Stitt. Recorded six weeks before he died, this was his last full album.[1][2][3]
References
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Fanfare 1984 -- Volume 8, Issue 2 - Page 373
Sonny Stitt: The Last Sessions Volume 2. MUSE MR 5280, $8.98. With Bill Hardman (trumpet), Walter Davis (piano), George Duvivier (bass), and Jimmy Cobb (drums), this was the last record Sonny Stitt made before he died in July 1982. He had a truly illustrious career, and ...
- ^ Robert H. Cataliotti The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African American Fiction 2007 082048850X Stitt, Sonny. The Last Sessions Volumes One and Two. Savoy, 2003. These 1982 dates, recorded just six weeks before the alto and tenor saxophonist died, are not his ultimate recorded statements. They do, however, testify to this man's unrelenting dedication to swinging, bop-based improvisation — a characteristic that makes him an appropriate muse for the inspiration-seeking narrator/protagonist in Xam Carrier's Muse-Echo Blues. With solid rhythm sections, including ...
- ^ Stuart Nicholson - Jazz, the modern resurgence 1990 - - Page 70
... debilitating struggles with alcohol and drugs, Stitt collaborated with up and coming tenor star Ricky Ford on the 1980 'Sonny's Back' (Muse) and Art Pepper on the July 1980 'Groovin' High' (Atlas), a valedictory meeting between two shrewd alto saxophonists who had seen it all and done it all before. Stitt demonstrated his mastery of the bop idiom with nonchalant ease on 'In Style' and the excellent 'The Last Sessions Vols. 1 & 2' (Muse); the latter with Sonny Stitt with Red Holloway.
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. |
As 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)
- (1982)
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With Dizzy Gillespie | |
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With Don Patterson | |
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With others | |
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