Yeah, and we still don't know, how could anyone dislike this! So it is kinda the question to solve ! To solve it let's ask youtube to make a complete (and mandatory) argumentation to accept one's dislike.
Well said. Jazz now lies in the shadows, virtually forgotten...but not by me. I have 900 jazz vinyl, carefully collected over 60 years, many jazz books, many CD's and loads of compact cassettes.I wouldn't part with any of them; they are my musical life....as you so rightly say....they're timeless.
Grabbin' up ya' hats, coats, boots and everything. Leave your worries on the doorstep cause' we going bye and bye. Just direct your feet. You look neat! On the sunny SIDE of the street! Can't you hear the pitter and the patter, of the rain drops trickling down fire escape ladder! Life could be so fine... Fine as Manischewitz wine! I used to walk, walk in the shade. With my blues on parade... But!(BUT!!)I'm not afraid! It's over... Casanova! If I never had one cent. I'd be rich as Rockeyfeller. With goldust at my feet. On the sunny! On the shady! On the sunny! Side of the street!!
The #9 is also the good old third from minor pentatonic scale. It's where it came from... #9 sounds cooler (or "beboper") but it's just a matter of language
alec__a I just don't like the way he sounds though. Beautiful melodies and stuff coming out of his horn but his sound and articulation are too low-down-bluesy for my taste. Nevertheless, he's really killing it on this recording
H D Bennett I made this same comment at a jury at school in front of some of my instructors and almost got crucified for it 😂😂. I agree with you whole heartedly!
Sunny was known for being the cat that put the funk on the skunk----they say Bebop was his middle name, but I say, soulfully swinging was his game. He gave the Bird a run for his money.
@@melvynwade6951 he did in a different way. Bird was obviously a better player and is responsible for bebop but sunny was just as a sexy player as bird was fast.
You cats must listen to the studio recording (on the Sonny side up LP - I think) same arrangement with Rollins added. This studio recording has to be in my best 10 tracks of jazz ever. The quality of solos on that are absolutely staggering - you could not get any better.
I love this song - the one played by Dizzy and his gang - since late 70s and have listening over and over again occasionally till today, for over 35 years !!! ,
Just came across this video and had to compare Stitt’s solo to the one he recorded on Sonny Side Up (Verve 1959) also featuring Sonny Rollins. Many elements are the same but he was able to make stuff up like that on the fly! Listen to Lover on his live at the hi hat which is beyond human in dexterity.
One of the first songs that I truly enjoyed when starting my jazz journey. Still do. I'm very lucky to have it on vinyl. Imagine my joy when I played "After Hours" on the flip side. There will never be jazz like this again...
this song has put a smile on my face for forty years on and off now..."can't you hear the pitter and the patter of the raindrops dripping down the fire escape ladder...life could be so fine, as fine as mmm wine!"
Stitt had an amazing ear as he ingeniously weaves melodic perfection through each choral sequence with extemporaneous ease! The love for his creative art made him the ultimate saxophone great of his and any other Era! This creative genius has inspired and touched every jazz saxophonist after his departure!
Sonny Stitt is simply divine. Endless thanks, Sonny, for my great fortune in being able to work with you, So happy that you were born among us, Love and friendship, Rama Kumar
This is melodic history folks. You will never hear another player like Dizzy or Sonny play those amazing bebop lines in a solo with the smoothness and purpose they played in their day. What it takes to play like that is only achieved by three or four people that I know. Dizzy, Charlie, and Sonny. Julius 'Cannonball' Adderley is so close it's scary.
Stitt was a genius and he is sorely missed.Diz and Sonny made a great team and I recentlly bought Sonny Side Up which contains this tune and has some incredible solos from Diz,Sonny Stitt,and Sonny Rollins.
ohhh yeahhhh !!!!!! incredible wonderfull paradise on earth !!!!!! with just a little standard but played with so much musicality and smile.....these guys are heroes but they dont know....
So fucking fresh and enjoyable. Aaand I recently really discovered him and this beutiful music called Jazz. It gives me some sort of freedom and wellness, and that's all I've been lookin 4. Cheers from Argentina friends. Gladd I'm now on the sunny side of the street!
Hello, Argentina! Good jazz is good for the soul! And these guys are GOOD! I dated Sonny Stitt's wonderful daughter back in the 1980s a few years after he passed. Saw all his cool stuff around the house in Washington, DC. Peace!
I always wondered what my Mimi would hum ... now I know! I love you Mimi and I hope you know I figured it out! I’ll see ya again and we will sing it together!!!!!
Man, I'm jealous, when they strated floating down the stream, I got lost in the woods. Great talent, I must say. I was still playing marbles when I first heard them during the late 50's. Then I never got the opp. to really learn music; play the guitar, but that's all.
I met Dizzy in 1980ish at Miller Auditorium , my last name is Gillespie and I am not the same nationally as him but after the concert I asked him if he remarried that day back in '60..We have the same last name and he (we) both laughed and he lordy no no no!😊😊
Nothing better on youtube. Stitt was the Lone Wolf, the Frank Sinatra of the saxophone, at least 150 albums under his own name. And on the duels--with Jug, Jaws, Getz, Rollins or on alto with Pepper and Richie Cole--I give him the edge. He's the Art Tatum of the horn, not the Bird. And Diz, along with Bird, was the "game changer" (not Miles, who was more of a general manager of the music's course). It was Coltrane and Bill Evans who effected the next change in players' musical language.
When you see dislikes you need to remember that there are some who think RAP is the greatest. I had one argue with me that out of all the vocalist Johnny Cash was by far the best. All I could tell him was that I liked the story that Johnny Cash told about a "Boy Named Sue." He never got it. Some people are tone deaf and others aren't even able to clap or tap their foot in time. What do you expect these one to comment.
