kurz aus dem Gedächtnis… sind zwar immerhin 30 Alben, aber natürlich trotzdem wahnsinnig lückenhaft …
Sonny Stitt All Stars (Be-Bop Boys) (Savoy, 1946) ***1/2
Lord Nelson & His Boppers: In the Beginning (Sensation/King/Galaxy, 1948) ****
Stitt’s Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952 (Prestige, 1949-1952, 3CD) (***** für Stitt/Powell/Johnson, ***1/2 für den Rest)
Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements (Verve, 1959) ***1/2
Sonny Stitt at the D.J. Lounge (Argo, 1961) ****
Gene Ammons / Sonny Stitt: Boss Tenors in Orbit (Verve, 1962) ****1/2
Stitt Meets Brother Jack (Prestige, 1962) ***1/2
Low Flame (Jazzland, 1962) ****1/2
Sonny Stitt & The Top Brass (Atlantic, 1962) ***
Move On Over (Argo, 1963) ****1/2
Sonny Stitt / Bennie Green: My Main Man (Argo, 1964) ****
Shangri-La (Prestige, 1964) ****1/2
Soul People (Prestige, 1964) ****
Sonny Stitt / Zoot Sims: Interactions (Cadet, 1965) ****1/2
Sonny Stitt / Don Patterson: Night Crawler (Prestige, 1965) ****
Sonny Stitt / Don Patterson: The Boss Men (Prestige, 1965) ****1/2
Sonny Stitt / Bunky Green: Soul in the Night (Cadet, 1966) ****
Deuces Wild (Atlantic, 1967) ****
Soul Electricity (Prestige, 1968) ***
Don Patterson: Funk You (Prestige, 1968) ****
Don Patterson: Brothers 4 (Prestige, 1969) ****1/2
Don Patterson: Donnybrook (Prestige, 1969) ****1/2 (diese beiden DP Alben sind sicherlich Geschmacksache)
Gene Ammons / Sonny Stitt: You Talk That Talk! (Prestige, 1971) *****
Just the Way It Was – Live at the Left Bank (Label M, 1971) ****1/2
Black Vibrations (Prestige, 1971) ****
Tune Up! (Cobblestone, 1972) ****1/2
Goin‘ Down Slow (Prestige, 1972) ****
Constellation (Cobblestone, 1972) ****1/2
So Doggone Good (Prestige, 1972) ***1/2
Gene Ammons / Sonny Stitt: Left Bank Encores – Live at the Left Bank (Prestige, 1973) ***
Groovin‘ High: Sonny Stitt & His West Coast Friends (Atlas, 1980) ****
Atlas Blues, Blow & Ballad: Sonny Stitt & His West Coast Friends (Atlas, 1980) ****1/2
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