''Goin' Down Slow'' is an album by saxophonist
Sonny Stitt recorded in 1972 and released on the
Prestige
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Prestige Records Discography
accessed January 14, 2013
Reception
In his review for Allmusic
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, Scott Yanow stated "Sonny Stitt was in one of his prime periods during the early '70s and this LP finds him in particularly creative form".[Yanow, S]
Allmusic Review
accessed January 14, 2013
Track listing
# "Miss Ann, Lisa, Sue and Sadie" (Sonny Stitt) - 14:10
# "Where Is Love?
"Where is Love?" is a song from the Tony Award-winning British musical '' Oliver!'' and the 1968 film of the same name, based on the 1838 novel '' Oliver Twist'' by Charles Dickens. The musical was written by Lionel Bart and was first staged in ...
" (Lionel Bart
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) - 4:23
# "Livin' Without You" ( Randy Newman) - 7:30
# "Goin' Down Slow
"Goin' Down Slow" or "Going Down Slow" is a blues song composed by American blues singer St. Louis Jimmy Oden. It is considered a blues standard
and "one of the most famous blues of all".
"Goin' Down Slow" has been recorded by many blues and o ...
" ( James Oden) - 3:54
# "Moving Beauty" (Traditional) - 3:48
Personnel
* Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...
*Thad Jones
Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 – August 20, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists".
Biography
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- trumpet
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* Hank Jones - piano
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* Billy Butler, Wally Richardson - guitar
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* George Duvivier - bass
* Idris Muhammad - drums
*Buddy Caldwell - congas, bells
*Unidentified strings arranged
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and conducted
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by Billy Ver Planck
References
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1972 albums
Prestige Records albums
Sonny Stitt albums
Albums produced by Ozzie Cadena
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio