アマゾンでジャズのCDボックス廉価版を見ていたら、CD4枚でアルバム8枚分686円と笑えるような値段で出ていたのでおもわずポチった。ソニー・スティットはパーカー直系ということで、昔からたまに聴いているし2~3枚はレコードも持っていたとは思う。しかし8枚で686円とは。
収録アルバムは以下のとおり。
A Little Bit of Stitt
- "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" (Harry M. Woods) - 2:48
- "For All We Know" (Sam M. Lewis, J. Fred Coots) - 3:06
- "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds, Al J. Neiburg) - 3:19
- "Cocktails for Two" (Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow) - 3:38
- "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 3:39
- "On a Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) - 3:21
- "Laura" (David Raksin, Johnny Mercer) - 3:18
- "J. B. Blues" - 3:56
- "Don't Take Your Love from Me" (Henry Nemo) - 2:55
- "After The Late, Late Show" - 3:56
Personnel
Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone (tracks 3,6,8)
Jimmy Jones - piano
Aaron Bell - bass
Charlie Persip - drumsReleased 1958・Recorded 1958・Chicago, Illinois
THE SONNY SIDE OF STITT
- "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) - 2:50
- "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) - 2:55
- "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 3:46
- "Day by Day" (Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn) - 3:34
- "Red Top" (Lionel Hampton) - 3:55
- "Moonray" (Artie Shaw, Paul Madison, Arthur Quinser) - 3:01
- "Old Fashioned Blues" - 4:47
- "I Never Knew" (Earl Carroll) - 4:31
- "Hitsburg" - 4:27
Personnel
Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone 5,8,9
Jimmy Jones - piano
Aaron Bell - bass
Roy Haynes - drumsReleased 1960・Recorded September 21, 1959・New York City
Stittsville
- "Angel Eyes" (Matt Dennis, Earl Brent) - 3:13
- "It All Depends on You" (Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown) - 2:50
- "Stormy Thursday" - 3:22
- "Embraceable You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:35
- "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:23
- "But Not For Me (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 3:07
- "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) - 5:09
- "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) 3:15
- "Bright as Snow" - 2:44
- "Spinning" - 2:26
Personnel
Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone 1,4,10, tenor saxophone all others
Jimmy Jones - piano
Unknown musician - bass
Roy Haynes - drumsReleased 1960・Recorded June 1960・New York City
Sonny Side Up (Roost album)
- "Sonny Side Up" - 2:36
- "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 3:56
- "The More I See You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) - 3:43
- "Don't Take Your Love from Me" (Henry Nemo) - 4:47
- "My Blue Heaven" (Walter Donaldson, George A. Whiting) - 2:43
- "My Mother's Eyes" (Abel Baer, L. Wolfe Gilbert) - 3:51
- "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) - 3:05
- "Bye Bye Blues" (Fred Hamm, Dave Bennett, Bert Lown, Chauncey Gray) - 5:04
- "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 5:14
Personnel
Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Jimmy Jones - piano
Aaron Bell - bass
Roy Haynes - drumsReleased 1961・Recorded August 8, 1960・Bell Sound, New York City
Boss Tenors
- "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) - 6:30
- "The One Before This" (Gene Ammons) - 7:09
- "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 6:32
- "Blues Up and Down" (Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt) - 8:47
- "Counter Clockwise" (Sonny Stitt) - 9:38
Personnel
Gene Ammons - tenor saxophone
Sonny Stitt - tenor saxophone (tracks 2-5), alto saxophone (track 1)
John Houston - piano
Buster Williams - bass
George Brown - drumsProducer Creed Taylor
Released 1961・Recorded August 27, 1961・Chicago, Illinois
Stitt Meets Brother Jack
- "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 4:50
- "Pam Ain't Blue" – 4:33
- "Time After Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 4:38
- "Ringin' In" – 5:19
- "'Nother Fu'ther" – 6:24
- "When Sonny Gets Blue" (Jack McDuff, Sonny Stitt) – 6:42
- "Thirty-Three, Ninety Six" – 6:02
Personnel
Sonny Stitt – tenor saxophone
Jack McDuff – organ
Eddie Diehl – guitar
Art Taylor – drums
Ray Barretto – congasReleased 1962・Recorded February 16, 1962
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Boss Tenors in Orbit!
- "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern) - 6:17
- "Walkin'" (Jimmy Mundy) - 5:21
- "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Kern) - 8:20
- "John Brown's Body" (Traditional) - 7:22
- "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) - 9:58
Personnel
Sonny Stitt - tenor saxophone
Gene Ammons - tenor saxophone
Don Patterson - organ
Paul Weeden - guitar
Billy James - drumsReleased 1962・Recorded February 18, 1962
Feelin's
- "O Sole Mio" (Giovanni Capurro, Eduardo di Capua) - 3:42
- "Feelin's" - 3:53
- "Nightmare" - 2:15
- "S'posin'" (Paul Denniker, Andy Razaf) - 6:17
- "Look Up" - 3:09
- "Goodnight, Ladies" (Edwin Pearce Christy) - 3:49
- "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 5:17
- "Hollerin' the Blues" - 4:47
- "Stretch Pants" - 5:07
Personnel
Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Don Patterson - organ
Paul Weeden - guitar
Billy James - drumsReleased 1962・Recorded February–April 1962・New York City