Sonny Stitt
Tenor Sax Solo on
After Hours

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Sonny Stitt's tenor sax solo is the closing of 3 solos on this recording, following Sonny Rollins's tenor sax. Spanning five choruses of the 12-bar Blues form at a relaxed 65 BPM with a swing feel in G, the solo runs approximately 3:38. The slow tempo reveals aspects of each musician's personality that fast tempos can obscure: Gillespie's lyricism, Rollins's rhythmic wit, and Stitt's commanding tone. Sonny Stitt was 32 to 33 years old at the time of this 1957 recording.

Sonny Stitt was 32 to 33 years old at the time.