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Sonny Stitt

Title: It's Magic

Label: Delmark Records

Cat No:DD563
Format:CD

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This mid-price reissue, “It's Magic”, from 1969, is a wonderful reminder that Sonny Stitt could burn bebop (check out the marvellous rendition of "Four") and make the hair on the back of your neck stand up when he played a moving ballad (as on "Body And Soul"). With Don Patterson, organ and Billie James, drums who were his regular band at this time, and can be heard on the Delmark album “Made For Each Other” made a year before this session.

Well known for his ability to play saxophone fast, with authority over the most difficult of chord progressions, Sonny Stitt recorded his first session as leader in 1946 on Savoy, with Kenny Dorham, Bud Powell & Kenny Clarke. In 1950 he made the first of many recordings with Gene Ammons, an association that would last through three decades and produce what is probably his best known records, including Boss Tenors from 1961.

Track Listing for It's Magic
1. Four
2. On Green Dolphin Street
3. Parker’s Mood
4. How High The Moon
5. Shake Your Head
6. It’s Magic
7. Getting Sentimental Over You
8. Just Friends
9. Body & Soul
10. They Can’t Take That Away From Me

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Sonny Stitt

Made for Each Other

It's Magic

My Mother's Eyes

Burnin'

The Last Stitt Sessions Vols 1 and 2

Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements

Blows the Blues - The Hard Swing

Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio

Arrangements of Johnny Richards and Quincy Jones

The Sonny Side of Stitt (2CD)