Made for Each Other (Sonny Stitt album)

Made for Each Other is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1968 but not released by the Delmark label until 1972.[1][2][3] The album represents Stitt's fourth recording featuring the varitone, an electronic amplification device which altered the saxophone's sound.[4]

Made for Each Other
Studio album by
Sonny Stitt
Released1972
RecordedJuly 13, 1968
StudioP.S. Studios, Chicago
GenreJazz
Length41:18
LabelDelmark
DS 426
ProducerRobert G. Koester, Joe Segal
Sonny Stitt chronology
Parallel-a-Stitt
(1967)		 Made for Each Other
(1972)		 Soul Electricity!
(1968)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[5]

Allmusic reviewer Scott Yanow stated "Sonny Stitt's regular group of the period plays a wide variety of material ... Unfortunately the set is from the period when Stitt often used a Varitone electronic attachment on his alto and tenor which gave him a much more generic sound, lowering the quality of this music despite some strong improvisations. It is an okay set that could have been better".[5] In JazzTimes Patricia Myers wrote "Alto and tenor giant Sonny Stitt always could burn a bebop riff like his idol, Charlie Parker. In this 1968 studio session, Stitt is in perfect sync with ever-grooving organist Don Patterson and tasty drummer Billy James".[6]

Track listing
  1. "Samba de Orpheus" (Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Maria, Andre Michel Salvet) – 4:37
  2. "Funny" (tenor) (Philip Broughton, Bob Merrill, Marcia Neil, Hughie Prince) – 2:58
  3. "Glory of Love" (Billy Hill) – 5:23
  4. "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 5:43
  5. "Blues for J.J." (Sonny Stitt) – 4:42
  6. "Funny" (Alto) Broughton, Merrill, Neil, Prince) – 3:02
  7. "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" (Jerry Brainin, Buddy Bernier) – 5:26
  8. "Honey" (Bobby Russell) – 3:55
  9. "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" [alternate take] (Brainin, Bernier) – 5:32 Additional track on CD reissue

Personnel

References
  1. Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 400 series accessed October 16, 2019
  2. Jazzlists: Don Patterson discography accessed October 16, 2019
  3. Delamrk Records: album details accessed October 16, 2019
  4. Myers, M. Sonny Stitt: Varitone Redux, All About Jazz, December 20, 2011
  5. Yanow, Scott. Sonny Stitt: Made for Each Other' – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  6. Myers, P. JazzTimes Review accessed October 16, 2019
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