The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt, released in 1959 on the Roost label.
Reception AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.Allmusic Review accessed January 3, 2013
Track listing All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated "Happy Faces" - 3:40 "Am I Blue?" (Harry Akst, Grant Clarke) - 2:57 "I'll Be Seeing You" (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain) - 2:05 "When You're Smiling" (Larry Shay, Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin) - 3:34 "In a Little Spanish Town" (Mabel Wayne, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) - 4:00 "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) - 3:42 "Back in Your Own Back Yard" (Al Jolson, Billy Rose, Dave Dreyer) - 3:26 "Foot Tapper" - 3:05 "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 2:44 "Shadow Waltz" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) - 2:08 "Wind-Up" - 3:35
Personnel Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone 3,5,8 and 11, tenor saxophone Jimmy Jones - piano Unknown musician - bass Charlie Persip - drums
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