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My Mother's Eyes (Sonny Stitt album)

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My Mother's Eyes
Studio album by
Released1963
RecordedMay 1963
Los Angeles, California
GenreJazz
LabelPacific Jazz
PJ 71
Sonny Stitt chronology
Stitt Plays Bird
(1963)
My Mother's Eyes
(1963)
Move on Over
(1963)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Down Beat[1]
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

My Mother's Eyes is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1963 in Los Angeles and released on the Pacific Jazz label.[4]

Reception

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The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars stating "This obscure LP finds Sonny Stitt sticking to tenor and playing a typical set filled with blues, standards and riff-filled originals".[2]

Track listing

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All compositions by Sonny Stitt except where noted.

  1. "Summer Special"
  2. "My Mother's Eyes" (Abel Baer, L. Wolfe Gilbert)
  3. "Still in Time"
  4. "Blue Skies" (Irving Berlin)
  5. "S.O.P. Blues"
  6. "Don't Go to Strangers" (Redd Evans, Arthur Kent, David Mann)
  7. "Red Top" (Lionel Hampton)

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Down Beat:December 19, 1963 Vol. 30, No. 32
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed January 4, 2013
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1346. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Edwards, D., Eyries, P. and Callahan, M. Pacific Jazz/Pacifica Album Discography accessed January 10, 2013