music.wikisort.org - CompositionThe Modern Jazz Sextet is a jazz album featuring the combined talents of Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Skeeter Best and Charlie Persip.[2] The album was conceived by producer Norman Granz for his own label, Norgran Records.[3] Although no single album artist is credited as a bandleader for this album, Verve Records - which owns the Norgran catalogue - files it as a Dizzy Gillespie album.
1956 studio album by multiple artists
The Modern Jazz Sextet |
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Released | 1956 |
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Recorded | January 12, 1956 at Fine Sound Studios, NYC |
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Genre | Jazz |
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Length | 42:26 |
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Label | Norgran Records MGN 1076[1] |
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Producer | Norman Granz |
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One Night in Washington (1955) |
The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) |
World Statesman (1956) |
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Two of the album's rhythm section - Lewis and Heath - also feature in the 1952-founded Modern Jazz Quartet.
Reception
Professional ratingsReview scores |
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Source | Rating |
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AllMusic |     [4] |
AllMusic gives the album 4 stars, stating that "it did not take too much insight to realize that putting trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and altoist Sonny Stitt together with a strong rhythm section would result in some explosive music. ...Bebop at its best."[4]
Track listing
- "Tour De Force" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 11:39
- "Dizzy Meets Sonny" (Gillespie) - 7:59
- "Ballad Medley: Old Folks/What's New?/How Deep is the Ocean?" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison/Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke/Irving Berlin) - 7:10
- "Mean to Me" (Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert) - 6:30
- "Blues for Bird" (Sonny Stitt, Gillespie) - 9:08
Credits
References
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Studio albums | |
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Live albums | |
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Compilation albums | |
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Soundtracks | |
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Compositions |
- "Anthropology"
- "Birks' Works"
- "Blue 'n' Boogie"
- "Con Alma"
- "Dizzy Atmosphere"
- "Groovin' High"
- "Manteca"
- "A Night in Tunisia"
- "Oop Bop Sh'Bam"
- "Salt Peanuts"
- "Woody 'n' You"
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Books |
- To Be or Not to Bop (1979)
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Related articles |
- List of works
- Bird (1988 film)
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Sonny Stitt |
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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)
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And Gene Ammons | |
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With Dizzy Gillespie | |
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With Don Patterson | |
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With others | |
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