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Sonny Side Up
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731452142627
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Polygram Records
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
MPN: 521426
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polygram Records
Release Date: July 29, 1997
Studio: Polygram Records
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Editorial Review:
Dizzy Gillespie's long, fruitful career is peppered with a number of high-profile summit meetings with a variety of jazz royals, and this 1957 date ranks with the best of them. Gillespie facilitated this battle between tenor titans Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins and even, according to legend, stoked their competitive fires with well-timed phone calls prior to the session. The good-natured opener "On the Sunny Side of the Street," complete with a lighthearted Dizzy vocal turn, doesn't even hint at the serious business to follow it. "The Eternal Triangle" is a quintessential bop fracas filled with inspired, white-hot improvisation. Rollins and Stitt exchange mighty blows, in solos and in trades, and Gillespie's trumpet work is no mere afterthought, bristling as it does with creativity and authority. The ensemble catches their collective breath with "After Hours," a tasty slow blues introduced by Ray Bryant's mood-setting piano, before they unleash a ripping reading of the chestnut "I Know That You Know." You get the sense that the more artful (and "jazz's new thing") Rollins was dragged into a real street fight by the fiery Stitt, who was unbeatable on his own blistering bop turf, but each man--Gillespie included--rises to the occasion in spirited fashion. --Marc Greilsamer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - beyond fantastic ! ! !
Ahhhhhhh... the good old days... when players could play technically challenging material, yet NEVER lost their sense of swing - - To call this session swingin', boppin' and in the pocket is an understatement.
What makes it really fun to listen to is that even though Rollins and Stitt are clearly children of Bird, their sounds are different enough that you can tell who's up at the mike. (Stitt has a sharper more agressive intonation... Rollins is bit warmer - - seems to have a bit of ... Read More
Rating: - Sizzles with torrents of energy.
Sonny Side Up is a fine album. In particular, the piece called The Eternal Triangle sizzles with torrential energy. A more consistent album, in terms of style and instrumentation, is The Bop Sesson (reviewed below).
The following concerns The Eternal Triangle. The Eternal Triangle begins with a multi-instrument theme (30 seconds). Then there is a saxophone solo, apparently by Rollins (1 minute), then a short multi-instrument interlude, followed by another Rollins solo (1 min.). There ... Read More
Rating: - Quite possibly the best "blowing" album ever
This is not an important album in the sense that something like Kind of Blue, or Birth of the Cool, or Giant Steps or Moanin' was. It is, however, a showcase of what modern jazz was originally all about: the jam session. This album is nothing more than a glorified jam session, but what a jam it is! All musicians, especially the Sonnys are in the finest of form, contributing burning soloes on the Eternal Triangle, hard swinging ones on Sunny Side of the Street, and finger-poppin' ones on After Hours. ... Read More
Rating: - jazz at its best
wow this is the best jazz album i ever heard. giant steps comes close but wow this album is amazing. both sonny's sound great as usualy but its almost as tho they raised their game some. diz sounds great everyone sounds good this is a must buy get this album NOW!
Rating:  - Quite short, but a piece of JAZZ Heaven and History
There is no doubt that this session served to push both Stitt and Rollins to some of their best ("The Eternal Triangle" for Stitt and Rollins...and "..Sunny Side.." finding Rollins compact and captivating in his solo). "After Hours" is one of my favorite tunes (called 'the Black National Anthem' by one of my 80+ year old best friends), and while it is played for quite a while - it is literally more than a fourth of the recording - I could listen to Ray Bryant with brother Tommy ... Read More
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