1965 studio album by Sonny Stitt and Zoot Sims
Inter-Action is an album by saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Zoot Sims recorded in Chicago in 1965 and released on the Cadet label.[1]
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Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "consistently swinging".[2]
All compositions by Sonny Stitt except where noted.
- "My Blue Heaven" (Walter Donaldson, George A. Whiting) - 8:01
- "The Saber" - 3:06
- "Katea" - 6:38
- "Fools Rush In" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 5:29
- "Look Down That Lonesome Road" (Traditional) - 7:20
- "I Want to Go Home" - 4:24
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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)
- The Last Sessions (1982)
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And Gene Ammons | |
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With Dizzy Gillespie | |
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With Don Patterson | |
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With others | |
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise. |
As leader or co-leader | - The Brothers (and Stan Getz, 1949–52)
- Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956)
- The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956)
- Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956)
- Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956)
- Zoot! (1956)
- Locking Horns (and Joe Newman, 1957)
- Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958)
- Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods, 1959)
- Down Home (1960)
- Two Jims and Zoot/Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall, 1964)
- Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt, 1965)
- Waiting Game (1966)
- The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967)
- Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy Rich, 1974)
- Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie, 1975)
- The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975)
- Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, 1975)
- Soprano Sax (1976)
- Hawthorne Nights (1976)
- If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy Rowles, 1977)
- For Lady Day (1978)
- Warm Tenor (and Jimmy Rowles, 1979)
- The Sweetest Sounds (and Rune Gustafsson, 1979)
- Just Friends (and Harry Edison, 1980)
- Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper, 1981)
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Recordings with Al Cohn | - From A to...Z (1956)
- The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956)
- Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, 1957)
- The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, 1957)
- Al and Zoot (1957)
- Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac, 1959)
- SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral, Steve Allen, 1959)
- Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960)
- You 'n' Me (1960)
- Either Way (1961)
- Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962)
- Body and Soul (1973)
- Motoring Along (1974)
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With Quincy Jones | |
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With Gerry Mulligan | |
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With others | - Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963)
- Encounter! (Pepper Adams, 1968)
- Trigger Happy!/East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert/Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott, 1956)
- Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54)
- Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959)
- The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner, 1973)
- Louis Bellson Quintet (1954)
- The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
- Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, 1961)
- Chris Connor (1956)
- The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin, 1960)
- Loose Blues (Bill Evans, 1962)
- The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer, 1959)
- South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller, 1961)
- Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett, 1967)
- The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins, 1956)
- Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton, 1953)
- The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953)
- The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975)
- Profiles (Gary McFarland, 1966)
- Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae, 1959)
- Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973)
- Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956)
- The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus, 1962)
- Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954)
- Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson, 1966)
- The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966)
- Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967)
- All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day, 1962)
- Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, 1974)
- Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954)
- Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin, Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)
- Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith, 1952)
- Phoebe Snow (1974)
- Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt, 1965)
- Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan, 1958)
- The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
- Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
- The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953)
- At Newport '63 (Joe Williams, 1963)
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