Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio

Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1959 album by Sonny Stitt, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio.

Reception The Penguin Guide to Jazz rated the album three and a half stars out of four and wrote of the session, "they intermingle their respective many-noted approaches as plausibly as if this were a regular band (in fact, they never recorded together again)." The Allmusic review written by Scott Yanow rated the album four and a half stars out of five.

Track listing "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:05 "Au Privave" (Charlie Parker) – 3:59 "The Gypsy" (Billy Reid) – 3:25 "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 4:41 "Scrapple from the Apple" (Parker) – 4:20 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten) – 7:09 "Blues for Pres, Sweets, Ben and All the Other Funky Ones" (Sonny Stitt) – 6:04 "Easy Does It" (Sy Oliver, Trummy Young) – 5:21

Personnel Performance Sonny Stitt – alto saxophone (tracks 1–5), tenor saxophone (tracks 6–8) Oscar Peterson Trio Oscar Peterson – piano Ray Brown – double bass Ed Thigpen – drums

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