Sonny Side Up

Sonny Side Up
Studio album by Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins
Released January 1959[1]
Recorded December 19, 1957
Nola Recording Studio, New York City
Genre Jazz, bebop, hard bop
Length 37:42
Label Verve
MGV-8262
Producer Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
The Greatest Trumpet of Them All
(1957)The Greatest Trumpet of Them All1957		 Sonny Side Up
(1957)		 The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie
(1959)The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie1959
Sonny Rollins chronology
A Night at the Village Vanguard
(1957) A Night at the Village Vanguard1957		 Sonny Side Up
(1957) Sonny Side Up1957		 Freedom Suite
(1958) Freedom Suite1958
Sonny Stitt chronology
Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers
(1957) Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers1957		 Sonny Side Up
(1957) String Module Error: Match not found1957		 The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt
(1958) The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt1958

Sonny Side Up is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and the tenor saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins, recorded in December 1957 in New York City. It was released in 1959 on producer Norman Granz's newly launched Verve label.

As Thomas Cunniffe has written, "The pairing of Rollins and Stitt was highly inspired. More important than their common nicknames (and the punning album title), tenor saxophonists Rollins and Stitt were both influenced by Charlie Parker, but each took a vastly different approach to improvisation. Stitt transferred Parker’s white-hot intensity to the tenor after several fans and critics pointed out the tonal similarity of their alto sounds. Rollins was a more thoughtful player who expanded the vocabulary of bop improvisation by incorporating thematic elements into his solos and by experimenting with different melodic shapes and unusual phrase lengths."[2]

Pianist Ray Bryant, bassist Tommy Bryant, and drummer Charlie Persip provide the rhythm section.[3]

Track listing

  1. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) - 5:41
  2. "The Eternal Triangle" (Stitt) - 14:10
  3. "After Hours" (Avery Parrish) - 12:19
  4. "I Know That You Know" (Vincent Youmans) - 5:27

Personnel

Additional personnel

  • Burt Goldblatt - cover photography
  • Nat Hentoff – liner notes

References

  1. ↑ Billboard, February 9, 1959.
  2. ↑ "Dizzy Gillespie:'Sonny Side Up' (Verve 314 521 426)/'Duets' (Verve 835 253)", Retro Reviews - Jazz History Online.
  3. ↑ Stephen Cook, Allmusic review
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