Sonny Stitt
Tenor Sax Solo on
I Know That You Know

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Sonny Stitt's tenor sax solo is the closing of 3 solos on this recording, following Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet. Spanning four choruses of the 32-bar AA' form at a brisk 318 BPM with a swing feel in E♭, the solo runs approximately 1:36. The album Sonny Side Up remains one of the defining documents of the jam session format in jazz, and this track exemplifies the joy and intensity that erupts when great improvisers share a stage. 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.