1971, tenor saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons came together for one of their finest albums. The title track of You Talk That Talk is a blues composed by Leon Spencer Jr. The Prestige session featured Gene Ammons (ts), Sonny Stitt (ts), Leon Spencer Jr. (org), George Freeman (g) and Idris Muhammad (d).
The first tenor solo is by Ammons and the second by Stitt. Both are solid and tough. I only wish the full album was up online ad-free. This one would have been a Backgrounder. For now, the title track will have to do.
Here's You Talk That Talk...
Other Perfection tracks in this ongoing series...
- Paul Desmond and Jim Hall: Any Other Time, go here.
- John Coltrane: You Say You Care, go here.
- Quincy Jones: Funk Junction, go here.
- Art Farmer's Work of Art, go here.
- Miles Davis: A Gal in Calico, go here.
- Gene Krupa: Mulligan Stew, go here.
- Dave Brubeck: The Duke, go here.
- Horace Silver: The Back Beat, go here.
- Horace Parlan: Up & Down, go here.
- Dexter Gordon: Society Red, go here.
- Barney Kessel: You Go to My Head, go here.
- Count Basie: Corner Pocket, go here.
- Herbie Mann: Manteca, go here.
- Donald Byrd: Bronze Dance, go here.
- George Shearing: I'll Be Around, go here.