1955 live album by Sonny Stitt
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Jazz at the Hi-Hat is a live album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in Boston in 1954 and originally released on the Roost label as a four track 10 inch LP.[ 2] The original album has been expanded with additional material and released on CD in two volumes.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states, "this CD gives one a good all-around sampling of early Sonny Stitt".[ 1]
Track listing
All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated
Volume 1:
"Blue and Sentimental " (Count Basie , Mack David , Jerry Livingston ) – 3:08
"Thou Swell " (Lorenz Hart , Richard Rodgers )
"Every Tub" (Basie, Eddie Durham )
"Pennies from Heaven " (Johnny Burke , Arthur Johnston )
"Sweet Georgia Brown " (Ben Bernie , Kenneth Casey , Maceo Pinkard ) – 5:00 additional track on CD release
"I'm in the Mood for Love " (Dorothy Fields , Jimmy McHugh ) – 4:43 additional track on CD release
"Tri–Horn Blues" additional track on CD release
"If I Should Lose You " (Ralph Rainger , Leo Robin ) – 4:43 additional track on CD release
"(Back Home Again In) Indiana " (James F. Hanley , Ballard MacDonald ) – 5:04 additional track on CD release
"Wigwam" – 2:53 additional track on CD release
"My Melancholy Baby " (Ernie Burnett, George Norton) additional track on CD release
"Flying Home " (Benny Goodman , Lionel Hampton , Sydney Robin) – 3:14 additional track on CD release
Volume 2:
"S.O.S. (Columbus Avenue Rhythm)" – 8:06
"Rockin' at the Hi-Hat" – 2:23
"(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (Hanley, MacDonald) – 3:14
"They Can't Take That Away from Me " (George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin ) – 4:24
"Lover " (Hart, Rodgers) – 3:04
"Flying Home" (Goodman, Hampton, Robin) – 2:55
"Mass Ave. Swing" – 2:29
"They Say It's Wonderful " (Irving Berlin ) – 2:10
"One O'Clock Jump " (Basie, Durham) – 12:22
"Jeepers Creepers " (Johnny Mercer , Harry Warren ) – 4:16
"Baritone Blues" – 4:01
"How High the Moon " (Nancy Hamilton , Morgan Lewis ) – 6:10
"Body and Soul " (Frank Eyton , Johnny Green , Edward Heyman , Robert Sour ) – 3:53
"If I Had You " (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly , Ted Shapiro ) – 1:59
"Jumpin' with Symphony Sid" (Lester Young ) – 2:42
Personnel
References
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As 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)
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