This article is about the 1959 album by Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt. For the 1960 album by Sonny Stitt, see Sonny Side Up (Roost album).
1959 studio album by Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins
Sonny Side Up
Studio album by
Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins
Released
January 1959[1]
Recorded
December 19, 1957 Nola Recording Studio, New York City
Genre
Jazz, bebop, hard bop
Length
37:42
Label
Verve MGV-8262
Producer
Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (1959)
Sonny Side Up (1959)
The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (1959)
Sonny Rollins chronology
Freedom Suite (1958)
Sonny Side Up (1959)
Newk's Time (1959)
Sonny Stitt chronology
Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1959)
Sonny Side Up (1959)
The Hard Swing (1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
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Sonny Side Up is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and the tenor saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins, recorded in December 1957 in New York City. It was released in 1959 on producer Norman Granz's newly launched Verve label.
^Billboard, February 9, 1959.
^Cite error: The named reference Cook was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 533. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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