1971 studio album by Don Patterson with Sonny Stitt
Tune Up! is an album by organist Don Patterson featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and 1969 which was released by Prestige in 1971.[ 1] [ 2] The album features unreleased recordings from the sessions that also produced Hip Cake Walk , Patterson's People , Oh Happy Day , Brothers-4 and Donny Brook .
Track listing All compositions by Don Patterson except as noted
"Just Friends " (John Klenner , Sam M. Lewis ) - 5:55
"Flyin' Home" (Lionel Hampton , Benny Goodman ) - 10:20
"Tune Up " (Miles Davis ) - 4:28
"Blues for Mom" - 12:50
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on July 10, 1964 (track 1), August 25, 1964 (track 2), June 2, 1969 (track 4) and September 15, 1969 (track 3)
Personnel
References
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader WithSonny Stitt With others
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except when this was delayed
As leader With Charles Mingus With others
Hot Line (Bill Barron , 1962)
Out Front! (Jaki Byard , 1964)
Urge (Ted Curson , 1965)
Cracklin' (Roy Haynes , 1963)
In the Land of the Giants (Eric Kloss , 1969)
Havin' a Ball at the Village Gate (Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan , 1963)
Up & Down (Horace Parlan , 1961)
Happy Frame of Mind (Horace Parlan, 1963)
The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson (Don Patterson )
Hip Cake Walk (Don Patterson, 1964)
Patterson's People (Don Patterson, 1964)
Tune Up! (Don Patterson, 1964 [1971])
Soul People (Sonny Stitt , 1964)
The Quest (Mal Waldron , 1961)
Highlife (Randy Weston , 1963)
Randy /African Cookbook (Randy Weston, 1964)
Monterey '66 (Randy Weston, 1966 [1994])
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader
Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50)
Stitt's Bits (1950)
Kaleidoscope (1950–52)
Jazz at the Hi-Hat (1954)
The Battle of Birdland (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1954)
Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (1955)
Sonny Stitt Plays (1955)
New York Jazz (1956)
For Musicians Only (with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz , 1956)
37 Minutes and 48 Seconds with Sonny Stitt (c.1956/57)
Only the Blues (1957)
Personal Appearance (1957)
Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers (1957)
Burnin' (1958)
Sonny Stitt (1958)
The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt (1958)
A Little Bit of Stitt (1959)
Saxophone Supremacy (1959)
Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues (1959)
Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements (1959)
Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1959)
Sonny Side Up (with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins , Verve , 1959)
Sonny Stitt Swings the Most (1959)
The Hard Swing (1959)
The Sonny Side of Stitt (1959)
Previously Unreleased Recordings (1960)
Sonny Side Up (Roost , 1960)
Stittsville (1960)
Stitt in Orbit (1960–62)
Sonny Stitt at the D. J. Lounge (1961)
The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt (1961)
Feelin's (1962)
Low Flame (1962)
Rearin' Back (1962)
Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (1962)
Stitt Meets Brother Jack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff , 1962)
Move on Over (1963)
My Mother's Eyes (1963)
Now! (1963)
Primitivo Soul! (1963)
Salt and Pepper (and Paul Gonsalves , 1963)
Soul Shack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1963)
Stitt Goes Latin (1963)
Stitt Plays Bird (1963)
My Main Man (and Bennie Green , 1964)
Shangri-La (with Don Patterson , 1964)
Sax Expressions (1965)
Sonny Stitt / Live at Ronnie Scott's (with Dick Morrissey , 1965)
Soul People (with Booker Ervin and Don Patterson, 1964–69)
Broadway Soul (1965)
Inter-Action (and Zoot Sims , 1965)
Night Crawler (with Don Patterson, 1965)
Pow! (with Bennie Green, 1965)
The Matadors Meet the Bull (1965)
Deuces Wild (1966)
I Keep Comin' Back! (1966)
Soul in the Night (and Bunky Green , 1966)
What's New!!! (1966)
Parallel-a-Stitt (1967)
Little Green Apples (1968)
Soul Electricity! (1968)
Come Hither (1969)
Night Letter (1969)
Black Vibrations (1971)
Turn It On! (1971)
12! (1972)
Constellation (1972)
Goin' Down Slow (1972)
Tune-Up! (1972)
Mr. Bojangles (1973)
The Champ (1973)
Satan (1974)
Blues for Duke (1975)
Dumpy Mama (1975)
Mellow (1975)
My Buddy: Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons (1975)
Forecast: Sonny & Red (with Red Holloway , 1976)
I Remember Bird (1978)
Stomp Off Let's Go (1976)
Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington (1977)
In Style (1981)
The Last Sessions (1982)
AndGene Ammons WithDizzy Gillespie WithDon Patterson With others