Sonny Stitt & His West Coast Friends - Bernie's Tune

Alto Saxophone - Art Pepper, Sonny Stitt
Bass - Chuck De Monico
Drums - Carl Burnett
Piano - Lou Levy
Vibraphone - Terry Gibbs

[@gerrycappuccio4186]

Swinging Recording !

[@grantkoeller8911]

I have never seen this album in 58 years!!!! I never knew this existed!!!!!!

[@hernanmartinez6673]

me 47

[@jasongarey8329]

I thought I recognized Art on the alto.

[@paxwallacejazz]

Of course Stitt sounds at home anywhere but you know how you try harder when you aren't taken as seriously like the whole West Coast. So I think these guys are really laying it down, really complementing Mr. Stitt exceptionally well. Pretty high class swinging going on here. Some of these California Beatniks had been in the shed for real.

[@YoutubePizzer]

this looks like the result of spamming the middle predictive button on top of your keyboard

[@anthonypapirio484]

Art Pepper said he was worried going head to head with Sonny but he was inspired to "play his ass off" and Stitt dug his playing.

[@facundotorres9054]

Bebop Heaven!

[@raefblack7906]

Stitt kicking some butt.. Top notch!

[@WillMagid]

Bernie 2020

[@bohumilknop563]

Thanks!

[@eze4cuerdas]

excelente

[@grantkoeller8911]

Please remember that Art Pepper is the first soloist, then Sonny Stitt

[@rustinsteele7683]

Yep, I could hear Mancini's "Combo!" in that first solo.....where he played clarinet!

[@blueyedboymrdeath]

Some very un-Stitt-like licks at the outset of his solo, sounds like he'd been listening to Trane? (This was cut in 1980.)

[@grantkoeller8911]

that's because it's Art Pepper first, not Sonny Stitt

[@cachockey]

1982

[@grahamlyons8522]

Who are his West Coast friends?

[@th1nker21]

Lou Levy, Art Pepper, Chuck de Monico, Carl Burnett

[@jornkleinbrahm2924]

Alto Saxophone - Art Pepper, Sonny Stitt Bass - Chuck De Monico* Design - Akira Tokuda Drums - Carl Burnett Engineer [Assistant] - Jerry Wood Executive Producer - Masahiko Yoshida Photography - Joe Shimada Piano - Lou Levy Producer - Yasuyuki Ishihara Recorded By, Engineer - James Mooney Vibraphone - Terry Gibbs

[@SeanLeonDrumz]