The Champ (Sonny Stitt album)
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Side 1

  1. "The Champ" (Gillespie) – 8:48
  2. "Sweet and Lovely" (Arnheim, Tobias, Lemare) – 7:11
  3. "The Midgets" (Newman) – 5:36


Side 2

  1. "The Eternal Triangle" (Stitt) – 5:21
  2. "All the Things You Are" (Kern-Hammerstein) – 4:32
  3. "Walkin'" (Carpenter) – 9:43

  • Note that on Side 1 Track 2 time is not 6:12 as listed on the label of the vinyl disc.


Personnel

  • Sonny Stitt
    Sonny Stitt
    Edward "Sonny" Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was also one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 albums in his lifetime...

     - alto & tenor saxophone
  • Joe Newman
    Joe Newman (trumpeter)
    Joseph Dwight Newman was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known for his time with Count Basie....

     - trumpet
  • Duke Jordan
    Duke Jordan
    Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan was an American jazz pianist.-Biography:An imaginative and gifted pianist, Jordan was a regular member of Charlie Parker's so-called "classic quintet" , featuring Miles Davis...

     - piano
  • Sam Jones
    Samuel Jones (musician)
    Samuel Jones was a jazz bassist, cellist, and composer.Sam Jones was born in Jacksonville, FL and moved to New York city in 1955. There, Jones played with Bobby Timmons, Tiny Bradshaw, Les Jazz Modes, Kenny Dorham, Illinois Jacquet, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk...

     - bass
  • Roy Brooks
    Roy Brooks
    Roy Brooks was an American hard bop jazz drummer.-Biography:Brooks was born in Detroit and drummed since childhood. He was an outstanding varsity basketball player as a teenager and was offered a scholarship to the Detroit Institute of Technology; he attended the school for three semesters and...

     - drums

Production

  • Producer: Don Schlitten
    Don Schlitten
    Don Schlitten was an American jazz record producer.Schlitten founded the label Signal Records in 1955 alongside Harold Goldberg and Jules Colomby. His credits for Signal included work with Duke Jordan, Gigi Gryce, and Red Rodney. Signal was sold to Savoy Records in the late 1950s, and after this...

  • Engineers: Paul Goodman
    Paul Goodman (sound engineer)
    Paul Goodman is a Grammy award-winning sound engineer, with awards in 1983 for Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor , in 1985 for Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat, Op. 100, and in 1987 for Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985...


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