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Shameless repackaging

Samuel Chell | Kenosha,, WI United States | 02/12/2008

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Even as a Stitt completist, I had to dispose of an earlier version of this listless and disorganized session, which has no business being in print. Its earlier incarnation was "Sonny Stitt at Ronnie Scott's." Not worth the material it's made of, and eBay sellers were asking twenty bucks for it. (Pity the consumer who gets burned twice!) The content, the audio, the music are all atrocious--what a shame if this should be the first and only recording some listeners will encounter by the "world's most perfect saxophonist." With many quintessential albums by this American genius of the saxophone not yet reissued on CD, it's unforgivable if not criminal that audio pollution such as this continues to be commercially available. Whoever's responsible for releasing the recording (a public domain amateur taping) is doing a grave disservice to Sonny Stitt, to an American art form, and to potential listeners world-wide."