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Fanfare 1984 -- Volume 8, Issue 2 - Page 373
Sonny Stitt: The Last Sessions Volume 2. MUSE MR 5280, $8.98. With Bill Hardman (trumpet), Walter Davis (piano), George Duvivier (bass), and Jimmy Cobb (drums), this was the last record Sonny Stitt made before he died in July 1982. He had a truly illustrious career, and ...
^Robert H. Cataliotti The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African American Fiction 2007 082048850X Stitt, Sonny. The Last Sessions Volumes One and Two. Savoy, 2003. These 1982 dates, recorded just six weeks before the alto and tenor saxophonist died, are not his ultimate recorded statements. They do, however, testify to this man's unrelenting dedication to swinging, bop-based improvisation — a characteristic that makes him an appropriate muse for the inspiration-seeking narrator/protagonist in Xam Carrier's Muse-Echo Blues. With solid rhythm sections, including ...
^Stuart Nicholson - Jazz, the modern resurgence 1990 - - Page 70
... debilitating struggles with alcohol and drugs, Stitt collaborated with up and coming tenor star Ricky Ford on the 1980 'Sonny's Back' (Muse) and Art Pepper on the July 1980 'Groovin' High' (Atlas), a valedictory meeting between two shrewd alto saxophonists who had seen it all and done it all before. Stitt demonstrated his mastery of the bop idiom with nonchalant ease on 'In Style' and the excellent 'The Last Sessions Vols. 1 & 2' (Muse); the latter with Sonny Stitt with Red Holloway.
