1965 studio album by Sonny Stitt With Booker Ervin & Don Patterson
Soul People Sonny Stitt and Booker Ervin , and organist Don Patterson . Just like his previous Soul Shack , Soul People features heavily blues-drenched jazz. The original album was recorded in 1964 and issued by Prestige in early 1965. In 1993, it was reissued on CD by Prestige, featuring three additional tracks.
Track listing
Original LP
"Soul People" (Stitt) - 9:59
"Sonny's Book" (Stitt) - 8:57
""C" Jam Blues" (Ellington) - 10:00
"Medley: I Can't Get Started /The Masquerade Is Over" (Vernon Duke , Ira Gershwin /Herb Magidson , Allie Wrubel ) - 11:16 Bonus tracks on CD reissue:
"Flying Home " (Goodman, Hampton, Robin) - 10:13
"Tune-Up (Davis) - 4:26
"There Will Never Be Another You " (Gordon, Warren) - 7:53 Tracks 1–5 recorded August 25, 1964; #6 on September 15, 1969; #7 on August 5, 1966. Tracks 5–6 previously issued on Don Patterson's Tune Up!
Personnel
Tracks 1–5
Track 6
Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone
Don Patterson - organ
Grant Green - guitarBilly James - drums Track 7
Don Patterson - organ
Vinnie Corrao - guitar
Billy James - drums
References
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
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Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson Stitt's Bits Kaleidoscope Jazz at the Hi-Hat The Battle of Birdland Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1954)Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones Sonny Stitt Plays New York Jazz For Musicians Only Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz , 1956)37 Minutes and 48 Seconds with Sonny Stitt Only the Blues Personal Appearance Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers Burnin' Sonny Stitt The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt A Little Bit of Stitt Saxophone Supremacy Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio Sonny Side Up Sonny Rollins , Verve , 1959)Sonny Stitt Swings the Most The Hard Swing The Sonny Side of Stitt Previously Unreleased Recordings Sonny Side Up Roost , 1960)Stittsville Stitt in Orbit Sonny Stitt at the D. J. Lounge The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt Feelin's Low Flame Rearin' Back Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass Stitt Meets Brother Jack "Brother" Jack McDuff , 1962)Move on Over My Mother's Eyes Now! Primitivo Soul! Salt and Pepper Paul Gonsalves , 1963)Soul Shack Stitt Goes Latin Stitt Plays Bird My Main Man Bennie Green , 1964)Shangri-La Don Patterson , 1964)Sax Expressions Sonny Stitt / Live at Ronnie Scott's Dick Morrissey , 1965)Soul People Booker Ervin and Don Patterson, 1964–69)Broadway Soul Inter-Action Zoot Sims , 1965)Night Crawler Pow! The Matadors Meet the Bull Deuces Wild I Keep Comin' Back! Soul in the Night Bunky Green , 1966)What's New!!! Parallel-a-Stitt Little Green Apples Soul Electricity! Come Hither Night Letter Black Vibrations Turn It On! 12! Constellation Goin' Down Slow Tune-Up! Mr. Bojangles The Champ Satan Blues for Duke Dumpy Mama Mellow My Buddy: Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons Forecast: Sonny & Red Red Holloway , 1976)I Remember Bird Stomp Off Let's Go Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington In Style The Last Sessions AndGene WithDizzy WithDon With
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Hot Line Bill Barron , 1962)Out Front! Jaki Byard , 1964)Urge Ted Curson , 1965)Cracklin' Roy Haynes , 1963)In the Land of the Giants Eric Kloss , 1969)Havin' a Ball at the Village Gate Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan , 1963)Up & Down Horace Parlan , 1961)Happy Frame of Mind The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson Don Patterson )Hip Cake Walk Patterson's People Tune Up! Soul People Sonny Stitt , 1964)The Quest Mal Waldron , 1961)Highlife Randy Weston , 1963)Randy African Cookbook (Randy Weston, 1964)Monterey '66
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