“The Hard Swing”   The Sonny Stitt Quartet   Verve Records (1959)   Recorded in Los Angeles with a band Stitt had picked up and worked with for a week at a club in Watts.     On alto for the the first seven tunes, then on tenor for the final four. Stitt is backed by the obscure and rarely recorded pianist Amos Trice.   George Morrow, who had just left Max Roach’s band is on bass and drummer Lenny McBrowne keeps the fires burning.   Stitt is in inspired form on this date and the ideas pour out of his horns.

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