''The Champ'' is a

Sonny Stitt Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone, he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his ...

album recorded at RCA's Studio B on April 18, 1973 and released on the

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label.

Track listing

Side 1

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

Side 2

# "The Eternal Triangle" (Stitt) – 5:21 # "All the Things You Are" (Kern-Hammerstein) – 4:32 # "Walkin'" (Carpenter) – 9:43 * Note that on Side 1 Track 2 time is not 6:12 as listed on the label of the

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Personnel

– alto & tenor saxophone * Joe Newman – trumpet *

Duke Jordan Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan (April 1, 1922 – August 8, 2006) was an American jazz pianist. Biography Jordan was born in New York and raised in Brooklyn where he attended Boys High School. An imaginative and gifted pianist, Jordan was a regula ...

– piano * Sam Jones – bass *

Roy Brooks Roy Brooks (March 9, 1938 – November 15, 2005) was an American jazz drummer. Biography Early life Brooks was born in Detroit and drummed since childhood, his earliest experiences of music coming through his mother, who sang in church. He was a ...

– drums

Production

* Producer:

Don Schlitten Don Schlitten (born March 4, 1932) is an American jazz record producer. Signal Records was founded in 1955 by Jules Colomby (assisted by Schlitten) with Harold Goldberg. His credits for Signal included work with Duke Jordan, Gigi Gryce, and Red R ...

* Engineers:

Paul Goodman Paul Goodman (1911–1972) was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism. Goodman was prolific across numerous literary genres and non-fiction topics, including the arts, civil rights, decen ...

References

External links

Sonny Stitt The Champ at My Jazz World blogspot
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