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1961 studio album by Sonny Stitt
The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt
Released 1961 Recorded March 6 & 7, 1961 New York City
Genre
Jazz
Label
Verve V/V6 8451
The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt is an album by saxophonist
Sonny Stitt performing with
Ralph Burns ' orchestra recorded in 1961 and released on the
Verve label.
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Reception
The
Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars.
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Track listing
All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated
"
Try a Little Tenderness " (
Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly ,
Harry M. Woods ) - 3:21
"Back to My Home Town" - 3:16
"
All of You " (
Cole Porter ) - 3:37
"I Never Felt That Way" - 3:08
"World Really Isn't" - 2:55
"
They Say It's Wonderful " (
Irving Berlin ) - 3:18
"
Time After Time " (
Sammy Cahn ,
Jule Styne ) - 3:48
"
I Love You " (Cole Porter) - 3:08
"
Once in a While " (
Michael Edwards ,
Bud Green ) - 3:31
"Talk to Me" (Stanley Kahan,
Eddie Snyder ,
Rudy Vallée ) - 3:11
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)
And
Gene Ammons With
Dizzy Gillespie With
Don Patterson With others