12!

1973 studio album by Sonny Stitt

12!

Studio album by

Sonny Stitt

Released| 1973
Recorded| December 12, 1972
Genre| Jazz
Length| 40:37
Label| Muse
MR 5006
Producer| Don Schlitten
Sonny Stitt chronology
| So Doggone Good
(1972)  | 12!
(1973)  | Mr. Bojangles
(1973)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]

12! is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1972 and released on the Muse label.[2]

## Reception

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AllMusic reviewed the album stating "this album is also one of the saxophonist's most rewarding recordings".[1]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated

1. "12!" – 5:03
2. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 4:17
3. "I Never Knew" (Gus Kahn, Ted Fio Rito) – 6:42
4. "Our Delight" (Tadd Dameron) – 5:31
5. "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" (Buddy Bernier, Jerry Brainin) – 4:57
6. "Blues at the Tempo" – 6:55
7. "Every Tub" (Count Basie, Eddie Durham) – 7:12

## Personnel

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* Sonny Stitt – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
* Barry Harris – piano
* Sam Jones – bass
* Louis Hayes – drums

## References

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1. ^ a b Yanow, S. AllMusic Review, accessed January 14, 2013
2. ^ Fitzgerald, M & Ziegler, F. Muse Records Discography accessed January 14, 2013

* v
* t
* e

Sonny Stitt

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.

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)

And
Gene
Ammons|

* All Star Sessions (1950–55)
* Dig Him! (1961)
* Boss Tenors (1961)
* Boss Tenors in Orbit! (1962)
* Soul Summit (with "Brother"Jack McDuff, 1962)
* You Talk That Talk! (1971)
* God Bless Jug and Sonny (1973)
* Left Bank Encores (1973)
* Together Again for the Last Time (1973)

With
Dizzy
Gillespie|

* The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956)
* Duets (1957)
* The Giants of Jazz (with Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Kai Winding, 1971)
* The Bop Session (1975)

With
Don
Patterson|

* Patterson's People (1964)
* Tune Up! (1964–69)
* The Boss Men (1965)
* Funk You! (1968)
* Brothers-4 (1969)
* Donny Brook (1969)

With
others|

* A Jazz Message (with Art Blakey, 1963)
* In Walked Sonny (with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, 1975)
* The Oscar Peterson Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957)

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