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Backgrounder: Sonny Stitt - 'Tune-Up!,' 1972

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Marc Myers
Mar 15, 2024
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Perhaps the high points of Joe Fields's Cobblestone label were a pair of albums by Sonny Stitt released in 1972—Tune-Up! and Constellation. Both were produced by Don Schlitten. On Tune-Up!, Stitt played alto and tenor saxophone and was accompanied by Barry Harris on piano, Sam Jones on bass and Alan Dawson on drums.

What made this album (and Constellation

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