More Jazz Recordings
More Jazz Recordings Featuring the Saxophone
- With two INSANELY GOOD Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sides, this original Blue and Green Atlantic Stereo pressing (the first copy to hit the site in over two and a half years) is as good as it gets
- Here are just a few of our notes for this amazing copy: “tubey, sweet sax,” “nice bass, rich and deep,” “3D and dynamic,” “spacious natural and silky.”
- No reissue in our shootout could touch it, although it’s tough to find these early pressings with surfaces as quiet as we would like
- Tom Dowd engineered, which is why the best copies of the album sound so damn good – Dowd recorded many of the best Coltrane albums in the early 60s, so if you like the sound of those, and who doesn’t?, you will no doubt find much to like here
- 4 1/2 stars: “Sonny Stitt forged his own approach to playing bebop out of the sound and style of Charlie Parker, so this tribute album was a very logical project… Stitt, who mastered bebop and could play hot licks in his sleep, is in top form… making this an essential item for straight-ahead jazz fans…”