Breezing (album)

This article is about the album by Sonny Red. For the album by George Benson, see Breezin'.

1961 studio album by Sonny Red

Breezing

Studio album by

Sonny Red

Released| 1961
Recorded| November 3, 1960
Studio| Plaza Sound Studios, NYC
Genre| Jazz
Label| Jazzland
JLP 32
Sonny Red chronology
| Out of the Blue
(1960)  | Breezing
(1961)  | A Story Tale
(1961)

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Breezing is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Red recorded in late 1960 and released in 1961 on the Jazzland label.[2]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Sonny Red except as indicated

1. "Brother B" - 5:02
2. "All I Do Is Dream of You" (Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown) - 4:03
3. "The New Blues" - 5:34
4. "Ditty" - 4:36
5. "'Teef" - 6:26
6. "Breezing" - 6:06
7. "A Handful of Stars" (Ted Shapiro, Jack Lawrence) - 4:42
8. "If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 2:50

## Personnel

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* Sonny Red - alto saxophone
* Blue Mitchell \- trumpet (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6)
* Yusef Lateef \- tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6)
* Barry Harris \- piano
* Bob Cranshaw \- bass
* Albert Heath \- drums

## References

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1. ^ Allmusic Overview accessed November 12, 2012
2. ^ Jazzland Records discography accessed November 12, 2012

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Sonny Red

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

As leader
or co-leader|

* Two Altos (with Art Pepper, 1957)
* Out of the Blue (1959–60)
* Breezing (1960)
* A Story Tale (with Clifford Jordan, 1961)
* The Mode (1961)
* Images (1961)
* Sonny Red (1971)

With
Donald Byrd|

* Mustang (1966)
* Blackjack (1967)
* Slow Drag (1967)
* The Creeper (1967)

With
others|

* Curtis Fuller with Red Garland (1957)
* Jazz ...It's Magic! (Curtis Fuller, 1957)
* New Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1957)
* Saying Something (Bill Hardman, 1961)
* The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968)
* Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962)
* On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette, 1957)

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Yusef Lateef

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

leader|

* Jazz for the Thinker (1957)
* Jazz Mood (1957)
* Before Dawn (1957)
* Jazz and the Sounds of Nature (1957)
* Prayer to the East (1957)
* The Sounds of Yusef (1957)
* Other Sounds (1957)
* Lateef at Cranbrook (1958)
* The Dreamer (1959)
* The Fabric of Jazz (1959)
* Cry! – Tender (1959)
* Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef|Contemplation (1960)
* The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef (1960)
* The Centaur and the Phoenix (1960)
* Lost in Sound (1961)
* Eastern Sounds (1961)
* Into Something (1961)
* Jazz 'Round the World (1963)
* Live at Pep's (1964)
* 1984 (1965)
* Psychicemotus (1965)
* A Flat, G Flat and C (1966)
* The Golden Flute (1966)
* The Complete Yusef Lateef (1967)
* The Blue Yusef Lateef (1968)
* Yusef Lateef's Detroit (1969)
* The Diverse Yusef Lateef (1969)
* Suite 16 (1970)
* The Gentle Giant (1971)
* Hush 'N' Thunder (1972)
* Part of the Search (1973)
* 10 Years Hence (1974)
* The Doctor Is In... and Out (1976)
* Autophysiopsychic (1977)
* In a Temple Garden (1979)
* In Nigeria (1983)
* Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony (1987)

Split
album|

* Stable Mates (with A. K. Salim, 1957)

With
others|

* The Complete RCA Victor Recordings of Dizzy Gillespie (1940s)
* Byrd Jazz (Donald Byrd, 1955)
* Autumn Leaves (Cannonball Adderley, 1963)
* Nippon Soul (Cannonball Adderley, 1963)
* That's Right! (Nat Adderley, 1960)
* My Kinda Swing (Ernestine Anderson, 1960)
* 1st Bassman (Paul Chambers, 1960)
* Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960)
* Images of Curtis Fuller (1960)
* Louis Hayes with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef (1960)
* Pre-Bird/Mingus Revisited (Charles Mingus, 1960)
* Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960)
* Color Changes (Clark Terry, 1960)
* Soulnik (Doug Watkins, 1960)
* Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
* Grantstand (Grant Green, 1961)
* The African Beat (Art Blakey and The Afro-Drum Ensemble, 1962)
* The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1962)
* Cannonball in Europe! (Cannonball Adderley, 1962)
* Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962)
* Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (A. K. Salim, 1964)
* Invitation to Openness (Les McCann, 1971)
* Homeless Brother (Don McLean, 1974)
* Double Time (Leon Redbone, 1977)
* Something You Got (Art Farmer, 1977)

Discography

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Blue Mitchell

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

leader

co-leader|

* Big 6 (1958)
* Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (with Red and Whitey Mitchell, 1958)
* Out of the Blue (1959)
* Blue Soul (1959)
* Blue's Moods (1960)
* Smooth as the Wind (1960–61)
* A Sure Thing (1962)
* The Cup Bearers (1962)
* Step Lightly (1963)
* The Thing to Do (1964)
* Down with It! (1965)
* Bring It Home to Me (1966)
* Boss Horn (1966)
* Heads Up! (1967)
* Collision in Black (1968)
* Bantu Village (1969)
* Blue Mitchell/Soul Village (1971)
* Vital Blue (1971)
* Blues' Blues (1972)
* The Last Tango = Blues (1973)
* Graffiti Blues (1973)
* Many Shades of Blue (1974)
* Stratosonic Nuances (1975)
* Funktion Junction (1976)
* African Violet (1977)
* Mapenzi (1977)
* Stablemates (1977)
* Summer Soft (1977)

With
Lou
Donaldson|

* Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952)
* The Time Is Right (1959)
* Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967)
* Midnight Creeper (1968)
* Say It Loud! (1968)
* Everything I Play Is Funky (1970)
* Pretty Things (1970)

With
Philly
Joe
Jones|

* Together! (with Elvin Jones, 1961)
* Drums Around the World (1959)
* Showcase (1959)
* Advance! (1978)
* Drum Song (1978)

With
Sam
Jones|

* The Soul Society (1960)
* The Chant (1961)
* Down Home (1962)
* Something in Common (1974–77)
* Changes & Things (1977)

With
Jimmy
McGriff|

* The Worm (1968)
* Step 1 (1968)
* A Thing to Come By (1969)
* Electric Funk (1969)

With
Horace
Silver|

* Blowin' the Blues Away (1959)
* Finger Poppin' (1959)
* Horace-Scope (1960)
* Doin' the Thing (1961)
* The Tokyo Blues (1962)
* Silver's Serenade (1963)
* Song for My Father (1963–64)

With
Stanley
Turrentine|

* A Chip off the Old Block (1963)
* In Memory Of (1964)
* Rough 'n' Tumble (1966)
* The Spoiler (1966)
* A Bluish Bag (1967)
* The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)
* The Sugar Man (1971)

With
others|

* Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley, 1958)
* Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks, 1960)
* Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean, 1960)
* My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles, 1970)
* True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976)
* Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976)
* Dolo! (Dolo Coker, 1976)
* California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976)
* Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1961)
* Filthy! (Papa John Creach, 1972)
* Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962)
* Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green, 1970)
* Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1966)
* Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961)
* Montara (Bobby Hutcherson, 1975)
* The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard, 1969)
* The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968)
* Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern, 1968)
* Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall, 1971)
* Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973)
* Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961)
* Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae, 1976)
* Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960)
* Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960)
* Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967)
* Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman, 1970)
* Opus De Don (Don Patterson, 1968)
* Oh Baby! (Big John Patton, 1965)
* Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960)
* Images (Sonny Red, 1961)
* Good Move! (Freddie Roach, 1963)
* Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse, 1960)
* Open House (Jimmy Smith, 1960)
* Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960)
* Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt, 1962)
* Soul Time (Bobby Timmons, 1960)
* Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963)
* The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966)
* Spectrum (Cedar Walton, 1968)
* The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969)
* Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976)
* Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)

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