The Battle of Birdland (also released as Tenor Battle at Birdland and Jaws N' Stitt at Birdland) is a live album by saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Eddie...
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Sonny Stitt (category The Giants of Jazz members)
Playing Arrangements from the Pen of Johnny Richards (Roost) 1954: Jazz at the Hi-Hat (Roost) 1954: The Battle of Birdland (Roost) with Eddie "Lockjaw"...
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of an approximation of the music's once-revered live cutting session". "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 5:41 "The Eternal...
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4 stars stating "Sonny Stitt led a number of excellent record dates in 1959, especially at the end of the year... Playing alto sax throughout this album...
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Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) - 3:47 "Street of Dreams" (Sam M. Lewis, Victor Young) - 2:41 "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern)...
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Culver City, California, at the age of 64. 1954: Goodies from Eddie Davis (Roost [10" LP]) 1955: The Battle of Birdland [live] (Roost) – with Sonny Stitt...
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album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1956 and originally released on the Verve label. All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated "Norman's...
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album recorded by Art Blakey's Quartet in 1964. The album was Blakey's second and last album for the Impulse! label. "Cafe" (Blakey, Stitt) – 5:37 "Just...
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Jazz at the Hi-Hat is a live album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in Boston in 1954 and originally released on the Roost label as a four track 10...
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released on the Prestige label in 1957. The 1991 CD reissue added four bonus tracks to the original LP. The Allmusic review stated "Deftly handling the alto...
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