Stitt Plays Bird

1964 studio album by Sonny Stitt

Stitt Plays Bird

Studio album by

Sonny Stitt

Released| Early July 1964[1]
Recorded| January 29, 1963
Studio| Atlantic Studios, New York City
Genre| Jazz
Length| 36:50 original LP
44:57 CD reissue
Label| Atlantic
SD 1418
Producer| Nesuhi Ertegun
Sonny Stitt chronology
| Rearin' Back
(1962)  | Stitt Plays Bird
(1964)  | My Mother's Eyes
(1963)

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Stitt Plays Bird is an album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, recorded in 1963 and issued on Atlantic Records in 1964. As the title suggests, it was recorded as a homage to the legendary saxophonist Charlie Parker, who was nicknamed "Bird."

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Source| Rating
Allmusic| [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [3]

## Track listing

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All pieces by Charlie Parker, unless otherwise noted.

1. "Ornithology" (Harris, Parker) – 3:41
2. "Scrapple from the Apple" – 3:49
3. "My Little Suede Shoes" – 3:06
4. "Parker's Mood" – 4:21
5. "Au Privave" – 2:40
6. "Ko-Ko" – 4:54
7. "Confirmation" – 4:36
8. "Hootie Blues" (McShann) – 6:24
9. "Constellation" – 3:19

Bonus tracks on CD reissue:

1.   2. "Now's the Time" – 3:18
3. "Yardbird Suite" – 4:49

## Personnel

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* Sonny Stitt – alto saxophone
* John Lewis – piano
* Jim Hall – guitar
* Richard Davis – bass
* Connie Kay – drums

## References

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1. ^ Billboard July 11, 1964
2. ^ Stitt Plays Bird at AllMusic
3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1346\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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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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