The Sonny Stitt Quartet - The Hard Swing

Sublime Sonny Stitt for Verve – a near-perfect record in just about every way from start to finish ! Sonny's tone is amazing here – crisp, but still with a great deal of warmth – and focused, but never in a way that's hackneyed or cliched – really showing the brilliance of jazz in a simple, straight ahead way that still leaves us breathless! The trio's an unusual one – LA players who include Amos Trice on piano, George Morrow on bass, and Lenny McBrownie on drums – but even they can't dislodge the classic Stitt quality of the album! Titles include "Blues For Lester", "What's New", "Subito", "Tune Up", "Presto", and a great reading of "The Way You Look Tonight".

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The 
Sonny Stitt
Quartet
The Hard Swing

Tracks

1 Blues for Lester (Stitt) 4:24
2 What's New ? (Burke, Haggart) 3:43
3 I'll Remember April (DePaul, Johnston, Raye) 4:38
4 Street of Dreams (Lewis, Young) 2:41
5 I Got Rhythm (Gershwin, Gershwin) 3:10
6 Tune-Up (Davis) 4:05
7 Subito (Stitt) 3:59
8 If I Had You (Campbell, Connelly, Shapiro) 4:09
9 After You've Gone (Creamer, Layton) 3:48
10 The Way You Look Tonight (Fields, Kern) 5:04
11 Presto (Stitt) 3:28

Personnel
Sonny Stitt - as & ts
Amos Trice - p
George Morrow - b
Lenny McBrowne - dr
 
Recorded in New York City ; February 9, 1959

See also
http://www.jazzdisco.org/verve-records/catalog-8300-series/#mgv-8306