''In Walked Sonny'' is an album by American jazz musicians Sonny Stitt and Art Blakey with

The Jazz Messengers The Jazz Messengers were a jazz combo that existed for over thirty-five years beginning in the early 1950s as a collective, and ending when long-time leader and founding drummer Art Blakey died in 1990. Blakey led or co-led the group from the o ...

. It was released in 1975 on the small independent label

Sonet Records Sonet Records was a jazz, pop and rock record label operating as an imprint of Universal Music Sweden. It was founded in Sweden in 1956. Sonet Records was established by Sven Lindholm and Gunnar Bergström, who managed the label into the 1980s ...

and is among the most obscure recordings made by the musicians involved in the project.

Track listing

Blues March "Blues March" is a composition by Benny Golson. It was first recorded for Blue Mitchell's Riverside album '' Big 6'' on July 2 and 3, 1958,Yanow, Scot"Blue Mitchell: Big 6" AllMusic. Retrieved December 21, 2013. and has become a jazz standard.B ...

" ( Benny Golson)- 7:29 #"

It Might as Well Be Spring "It Might as Well Be Spring" is a song from the 1945 film ''State Fair''. which features the only original film score by the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. "It Might as Well Be Spring" won the Academy Award for Best ...

" ( Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 6:03 #"Birdlike" ( Freddie Hubbard) - 7:40 #"

I Can't Get Started "I Can't Get Started", also known as "I Can't Get Started with You" or "I Can't Get Started (with You)", is a popular song. It was written in 1936 by Vernon Duke (music) and Ira Gershwin (lyrics) and introduced that year in the film '' Ziegfeld ...

" (

George Gershwin George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ' ...

Vernon Duke Vernon Duke ( 16 January 1969) was a Russian-born American composer/songwriter who also wrote under his birth name, Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for " Taking a Chance on Love," with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche (1940), "I Can' ...

) - 4:43 #"Ronnie's a Dynamite Lady" (

Walter Davis, Jr. Walter Davis Jr. (September 2, 1932 – June 2, 1990) was an American bebop and hard bop pianist. Davis once left the music world to be a tailor, but returned. A soloist, bandleader, and accompanist, he amassed a body of work while never be ...

) - 8:16 #"In Walked Sonny" ( Sonny Stitt) - 11:06 Bonus tracks on CD reissue: #

"Birdlike" lternate Take- 5:53 #"Ronnie's a Dynamite Lady" lternate Take- 8:35

Personnel

* Sonny Stitt - alto and tenor saxophone * Art Blakey - drums *

- piano *

Bill Hardman William Franklin Hardman Jr. (April 6, 1933 – December 6, 1990) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist who chiefly played hard bop. He was married to Roseline and they had a daughter Nadege. Career Hardman was born and grew ...

- trumpet * David Schnitter - tenor saxophone *Yoshio "Chin" Suzuki - bass

References

{{Authority control Sonny Stitt albums Art Blakey albums The Jazz Messengers albums 1975 albums