Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio
# Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio

Professional ratings :

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| Penguin Guide to Jazz | |

Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1959 album by Sonny Stitt, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio.

## Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz rated the album three and a half stars out of four and wrote of the session, "they intermingle their respective many-noted approaches as plausibly as if this were a regular band (in fact, they never recorded together again)." The Allmusic review written by Scott Yanow rated the album four and a half stars out of five.

## Track listing

* "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:05
* "Au Privave" (Charlie Parker) – 3:59
* "The Gypsy" (Billy Reid) – 3:25
* "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 4:41
* "Scrapple from the Apple" (Parker) – 4:20
* "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten) – 7:09
* "Blues for Pres, Sweets, Ben and All the Other Funky Ones" (Sonny Stitt) – 6:04
* "Easy Does It" (Sy Oliver, Trummy Young) – 5:21

## Personnel

### Performance

* Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone (tracks 1-5), tenor saxophone (tracks 6-8)

**Oscar Peterson Trio**

* Oscar Peterson – piano
* Ray Brown – double bass
* Ed Thigpen - drums
