My Main Man

Overview

My Main Man is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt and trombonist Bennie Green recorded in Chicago in 1964 and released on the Argo label.

My Main Man

Studio album by

Sonny Stitt and Bennie Green

Released

1964

Recorded

March 10–11, 1964

Studios

Ter Mar, Chicago, Illinois

Genre

Jazz

Length

34:56

Labels

Argo
LP-744

Producer

Esmond Edwards

Sonny Stitt chronology

Primitivo Soul!
(1963)

My Main Man
(1964)

Shangri-La
(1964)

My Main Man is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt and trombonist Bennie Green recorded in Chicago in 1964 and released on the Argo label.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]

AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars.^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Stitt and Bennie Green except as indicated

"Flame and Frost" (Esmond Edwards) - 4:31
"Let's Play Chess" (Sonny Stitt) - 4:50
"Double Dip" - 4:41
"Our Day Will Come" (Bob Hilliard, Mort Garson) - 5:17
"My Main Man" - 5:54
"The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" (Buddy Bernier, Jerry Brainin) - 5:14
"Broilin'" - 4:27

Personnel

Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Bennie Green - trombone
Bobby Buster - organ
Joe Diorio - guitar
Dorel Anderson - drums

References

↑ Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Argo Album Discography, Part 1: Jazz Series (1956–1965) accessed January 8, 2013
1 2 Allmusic Review, accessed January 8, 2013

v t e Bennie Green
Studio albums	Bennie Green Blows His Horn (1955) Bennie Green with Art Farmer (1956) Walking Down (1956) Back on the Scene (1958) Soul Stirrin' (1958) The Swingin'est (1958) The 45 Session (1958) Walkin' & Talkin' (1959) Hornful of Soul (1960) Glidin' Along (1961) My Main Man (1964)

v t e Sonny Stitt
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)
And Gene Ammons	All Star Sessions (1950–55) Dig Him! (1961) Boss Tenors (1961) Boss Tenors in Orbit! (1962) Soul Summit (with "Brother"Jack McDuff, 1962) You Talk That Talk! (1971) God Bless Jug and Sonny (1973) Left Bank Encores (1973) Together Again for the Last Time (1973)
With Dizzy Gillespie	The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) Duets (1957) The Giants of Jazz (with Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Kai Winding, 1971) The Bop Session (1975)
With Don Patterson	Patterson's People (1964) Tune Up! (1964–69) The Boss Men (1965) Funk You! (1968) Brothers-4 (1969) Donny Brook (1969)
With others	A Jazz Message (with Art Blakey, 1963) In Walked Sonny (with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, 1975) The Oscar Peterson Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957)

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