Aus Zan Stewarts Notes zum Mosaic-Set („The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Sudio Sessions“, 2001):
From this time [early 1947] until March, 1948, his whereabouts are essentially unsubstantiated. Sometime in late 1947 or early 1948, he recorded twice under the pseudonym of Lord Nelson for the Sensation label, using a band that included vibist [Milt] Jackson. At the first session, the selections included „Body and Soul“ and Stitt’s „3rd Song“, which was also known as „Silver Slipper.“ Shortly thereafter, a band with Sonny, Bags (Jackson’s nickname), trumpeter Russell Jacquet and pianist Sir Charles Thompson recorded four sides in Detroit again for Sensation. The selections included Stitt’s „Red Shoes“ and the Standard „Fine and Dandy,“ a favorite of the saxophonist’s, who recorded it several times since.
Discographies state that these sessions, now gatherered on Milt Jackson/Sonny Stitt: In the Beginning (Galaxy), were made June or later, 1948, in New York then Detroit. The locations may be correct but those dates are not. Stitt was arrested in Detroit for illegal sale of narcotics, convicted, sentenced to two years in prison and subsequently incarcerated at the prison unit at U.S. Public Health Service facility at Lexington, Kentucky, from March 10, 1948 until September 9, 1949. It was during this period that Miles Davis sought Stitt to no avail for what became the first of the Birth of the Cool recordings.
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