Audio CD review:
Dizzy Gillespie With Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins - Duets: Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt

Dizzy Gillespie With Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins - Duets: Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt

Band: Dizzy Gillespie With Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins Title: Duets: Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt Rating: Release Date: 25 October, 1990 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Wheatleigh Hall 2: Sumphin' 3: Con Alma (Alternate Take-Previously Unreleased) 4: Con Alma 5: Anythin' (Previously Unreleased) 6: Haute Mon'

Editoral Review The meeting of the two Sonnys is available on Sonny Side Up, while this disc includes their separate meetings with Gillespie. In late 1957, Gillespie recorded with two of the finest tenor players in jazz, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt, both in quintet format with one of the saxophonists and in a sextet with both men present. The contrast between the saxophonists is still apparent, though, with Rollins bringing blunt authority and invention to Wheatleigh Hall and Stitt providing smooth elegance within the bop conventions. Pianist Ray Bryant can play some of the deepest blues of any modern jazz musician, and he imparts a special feel to the two headless blues with Stitt, "Anythin'" and "Haute Mon'. " These are blowing sessions with a special mix of the relaxed and the concentrated, with Gillespie, clearly inspired by his partners, tearing off some of his most incendiary solos of the period. --Stuart Broomer .. You can see a complete list of all Dizzy Gillespie With Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins discography, or go back to the Dizzy Gillespie With Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins tabs