In Walked Sonny

1975 studio album by Sonny Stitt With Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

In Walked Sonny

Studio album by

Sonny Stitt With Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

Released

Late September 1975^[1]

Recorded

May 16, 1975
New York City

Genre

Jazz

Length

45:17 original LP

Label

Sonet Records/Gazell Records
1012

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers chronology

Anthenagin
(1973)

In Walked Sonny
(1975)

Backgammon
(1976)

Sonny Stitt chronology

Mellow
(1975)

In Walked Sonny
(1975)

The Bop Session
(1975)

Alternative cover

UK 1975 Vinyl

In Walked Sonny is an album by American jazz musicians Sonny Stitt and Art Blakey with The Jazz Messengers. It was released in 1975 on the small independent label Sonet Records and is among the most obscure recordings made by the musicians involved in the project.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

"Blues March" (Benny Golson)- 7:29
"It Might as Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 6:03
"Birdlike" (Freddie Hubbard) - 7:40
"I Can't Get Started" (George Gershwin, Vernon Duke) - 4:43
"Ronnie's a Dynamite Lady" (Walter Davis, Jr.) - 8:16
"In Walked Sonny" (Sonny Stitt) - 11:06

Bonus tracks on CD reissue:

"Birdlike" [Alternate Take] - 5:53
"Ronnie's a Dynamite Lady" [Alternate Take] - 8:35

Personnel

Sonny Stitt - alto and tenor saxophone
Art Blakey - drums
Walter Davis, Jr. - piano
Bill Hardman - trumpet
David Schnitter - tenor saxophone
Yoshio "Chin" Suzuki - bass

References

^ Billboard Sep 6, 1975
^ In Walked Sonny at AllMusic

The Jazz Messengers

Art Blakey

Studio
albums

The Jazz Messengers (1956)
Hard Bop (1957)
Ritual (1957)
Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... (1957)
Cu-Bop (1957)
Hard Drive (1957)
A Night in Tunisia (1958)
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1958)
Moanin' (1959)
The Big Beat (1960)
A Night in Tunisia (1961)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1961)
Mosaic (1962)
Buhaina's Delight (1963)
Caravan (1963)
The Freedom Rider (1964)
Free for All (1964)
Kyoto (1964)
Golden Boy (1964)
Indestructible (1965)
'S Make It (1965)
Soul Finger (1965)
Tough! (1966)
Like Someone in Love (1967)
The Witch Doctor (1969)
Roots & Herbs (1970)
Child's Dance (1972)
Buhaina (1973)
Anthenagin (1973)
In Walked Sonny (1975)
Backgammon (1976)
Gypsy Folk Tales (1977)
In My Prime Vol. 1 (1978)
In My Prime Vol. 2 (1978)
Reflections in Blue (1979)
Night in Tunisia: Digital Recording (1979)
Album of the Year (1981)
Oh-By the Way (1984)
Blue Night (1985)
Feeling Good (1986)
Not Yet (1988)
I Get a Kick Out of Bu (1988)
Chippin' In (1990)
One for All (1990)

Live
albums

At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (1956)
At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (1956)
A Midnight Session with the Jazz Messengers (1957)
1958 – Paris Olympia (1959)
At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vols. 1 & 2 (1959)
Art Blakey et les Jazz Messengers au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1960)
Paris Jam Session (1960)
Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, Vols. 1 and 2 (1960)
A Jazz Hour with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Blues March (1961)
Three Blind Mice (1962)
Ugetsu (1963)
Buttercorn Lady (1966)
Jazz Messengers '70 (1970)
In This Korner (1978)
Live at Montreux and Northsea (1980)
One by One (1981)
Art Blakey in Sweden (1981)
Straight Ahead (1981)
Keystone 3 (1982)
Live at Kimball's (1985)
The Art of Jazz: Live in Leverkusen (1989)

Compilation
albums

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1956)
The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956)
Drum Suite (1957)
Pisces (1979)
Africaine (1981)
Originally (1982)

Soundtrack
albums

Des Femmes Disparaissent (1959)
Les liaisons dangereuses 1960 (1960)

Art Blakey
solo albums

Blakey (1954)*
A Night at Birdland Vol. 1, Vol. 2 & Vol. 3 (1954)
Orgy in Rhythm (1957)
Art Blakey Big Band (1957)
Holiday for Skins (1958)
Drums Around the Corner (1959)
The African Beat (1962)
A Jazz Message (1963)
Hold On, I'm Coming (1966)
Killer Joe (1981)
Bluesiana Triangle (1990)

Discography

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)