Sonny Stitt - The Shadow of Your Smile (Recorded Live at the Keystone Korner, 1976)

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my name is Lance Parker from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and I studied with the great Sonny stitt for 5 years I would go on the road with him and play with guys like Kenny Burrell Don Patterson Louis Hayes slide Hampton jaki byardJimmy Smith Abraham laboriel Monty Alexander and many more I studied with Sonny would stay in a hotel with him and travel with him on the weekends where we would end up in Cincinnati or Columbus Ohio playing The high chaparral in the Taj Mahal jazz clubs I was the only white kid in there I was 18 years old I studied until about twenty one years old off and on going to various locations where he was playing what an education I have from him he taught me all the great rifts and different things and had a big to get a big soundon that lower register of the tenor saxophones that was real fluffy and big and fat like Coleman Hawkins used to playbefore he died and got sick he gave me his 1938 buscher biggby alto saxophone and he also gave me his 1978Mark 7 tenor saxophone which I played all my life I still have it and needs pads on it and I'll be getting it done soon with ostrich pads I have a selmer super actionmodel 64 series three tenor saxophone but they handpicked selmer Mark 7 that Sonny picked up in Elkhart Indiana from the selmer factory he sat 6 hours he said and played 40 different saxophones before they gave him the one that he liked so it's cherry-picked and it plays so great it's the greatest Horn of ever own even better than my old 1969 Mark 6 tenor so enjoy Sonny stitt he was the greatest to me he was as good as Bird without a. And he had a great soundI used to sit in here the bag wrinkle in the middle of the night in the hotel room where he would pick up his bottle of Nikolai vodka and take a little truck so he could sleep he suffered from insomniamy favorite times with him was at the high chaparral in the Taj Mahal in Columbus Ohio and at The encore in Pittsburgh Pennsylvaniahe is truly missed I have a trophy that he sent me in the email many years later and says to my best friend and my favorite student Lance Parker and it's a giant note on a block of wood in gold all in gold a brass plate going across it that says what I justSunny was without a. One of the greatest saxophone players ever lived and oh by the way he gave me a note to carry around in my pocket so this Stan getz ever came around to get the note said please give Lance my dearest friend and student a lesson Stan getz came in in Pittsburgh in about 1980 or 1979it was a place called wall Harper's attic where he was booked I believe that was it I pulled out the note when Stan gets one on a break he looked at the note and he smiled at me and said really and I just smiled back at him he says okay I'll give you a lessonStan showed me a bunch of things how to play pretty how to double ton and also how he gets that sound he used a Meyer five-star hard rubber mouthpiece I'll never forget it with the number 3 and 1/2 Vic oliveri Reed I will never forget it I never have told anyone that cuz I knew that they would never believe me so I've kept it with me all my life only I know that none of my saxophone friends or anyone I know would ever believe that

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