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Soul Electricity! is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1968 and released on the Prestige label.[1] The album features Stitt using the varitone, an electronic amplification device which altered the saxophone's sound.[2]

Soul Electricity!
Studio album by Sonny Stitt
Released	1968
Recorded	September 23, 1968
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:14
Label	Prestige PR-7635
Producer	Don Schlitten
Sonny Stitt chronology
Made for Each Other (1968) Soul Electricity! (1968) Little Green Apples (1968)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating: "The album gets its name because for this session, Stitt plugged his alto and tenor saxophones into a Varitone attachment. What came out, though, was not fusion by any means, but a pretty straight-ahead session that found Sonny his usual competent self. The program is actually on the conservative side, leaning toward standards".[3]

Track listing

1. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 5:58
2. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) - 3:25
3. "P.S. I Love You" (Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mercer) - 5:35
4. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 5:24
5. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) - 5:33
6. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 3:57
7. "Candy" (Mack David, Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney) - 5:50
8. "Strike Up the Band" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:30

Personnel

• Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, varitone
• Don Patterson - organ
• Billy Butler - guitar
• Billy James - drums

References

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