The nonet was active until the end of 1949, along the way undergoing several changes in personnel: Roach and Davis were constantly featured, along with Mulligan, tuba player Bill Barber, and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, who had been preferred to Sonny Stitt ( whose playing was considered too bop-oriented ).

Blanche, whose only other contact with the outside world is cleaning woman Elvira Stitt and her telephone conversations with her doctor and attorney, realizes that Jane is becoming increasingly unstable.

His last studio recordings as a leader were made in November 1971 for the English Black Lion label, near the end of a worldwide tour with " The Giants of Jazz ," a group which included Dizzy Gillespie, Kai Winding, Sonny Stitt, Al McKibbon and Art Blakey.

* The Giants of Jazz ( Atlantic, 1971 ) with Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Sonny Stitt and Kai Winding

Along with the rise of ska came the popularity of Deejays such as Sir Lord Comic, King Stitt and pioneer Count Matchuki, who began talking stylistically over the rhythms of popular songs at sound systems.

He moved to England in 1962 and became house bassist at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, playing with many greats including the guitarist Wes Montgomery and Sonny Stitt.

* The Giants of Jazz ( Atlantic, 1971 ) with Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Stitt

In the 1950s he was playing with Sonny Stitt, while from 1960 to 1962 he and fellow tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin led a quintet.

* 1981: Sonny, Sweets and Jaws-Live at Bubbas, ( live ), ( with Sonny Stitt and Harry " Sweets " Edison )

* Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio ( 1958, Verve )

He developed such successful campaigns as " Life – Be In It ", " Slip, Slop, Slap ", " Break down the Barriers ", " Guess whose mum's got a Whirlpool " and " watch the big men fly for a Herbert Adams Pie ", working with such talents as Fred Schepisi, Alex Stitt, Peter Best, Robin Archer and Mimmo Cozzolino.

* The Bop Session ( Sonet, 1975 ) with Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Hank Jones and Max Roach

Stitt, when playing tenor saxophone, seemed to break free from some of the criticism that he was imitating Charlie Parker's style, although it appears in the instance with Ammons above that the availability of the larger instrument was a factor.

He played with other bop musicians Bud Powell and Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, a fellow tenor with a distinctly tough tone in comparison to Stitt, in the 1950s and recorded a number of sides for Prestige Records label as well as albums for Argo, Verve and Roost.

Stitt joined Miles Davis briefly in 1960, and recordings with Davis ' quintet can be found only in live settings on the tour of 1960.

However, Miles fired Stitt due to the excessive drinking habit he had developed, and replaced him with fellow tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley.

Stitt, later in the 1960s, paid homage to one of his main influences, Charlie Parker, on the album Stitt Plays Bird, which features Jim Hall on guitar and at Newport in 1964 with other bebop players including J. J. Johnson.

The records recorded by these two saxophonists are regarded by many as some of both Ammons and Stitt's best work, thus the Ammons / Stitt partnership went down in posterity as one of the best duelling partnerships in jazz, alongside Zoot Sims and Al Cohn, and Johnny Griffin with Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis.

Stitt would venture into soul jazz, and he recorded with fellow tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin in 1964 on the Soul People album.

Stitt also recorded with Duke Ellington alumnus Paul Gonsalves in 1963 for Impulse!

* Sonny Stitt ( 1924 – 1982 ), jazz saxophonist

In February 1959 Bostic was voted No. 2 jazz alto sax in the Playboy jazz poll over leading saxists including Cannonball Adderley and Sonny Stitt.

His musical affiliations is a " who's who " of the jazz world, including Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, Art Farmer, Sonny Stitt, Anthony Braxton, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Eddie Harris and many others.

Also appearing was a roster of jazz stars from different eras and all regions, including Ben Webster, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Les McCann, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Sonny Stitt, Thelonious Monk, Michel Legrand, Carmen McRae, Milt Jackson, Teddy Edwards, Monty Alexander, Lenny Breau, Miles Davis, and many, many others.

Notable alto saxophonists include jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Kenny Garrett, Jimmy Dorsey, Johnny Hodges, Art Pepper, Cannonball Adderley, Eric Dolphy, Sonny Stitt, David Sanborn, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, Phil Woods, John Zorn, and Paul Desmond.

Other giants of jazz, including Sonny Stitt, Lee Konitz and Archie Shepp have also appeared at the club.

Edward " Sonny " Stitt ( born Edward Boatner, Jr., February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982 ), was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop / hard bop idiom.

Stitt was one of the first jazz musicians to experiment with an electric saxophone ( the instrument was called a Varitone ), as heard on the albums What's New in 1966 and Parallel-A-Stitt in 1967.

In the 1970s, Stitt slowed his recording output slightly, and in 1972, he produced another classic, Tune Up, which was and still is regarded by many jazz critics, such as Scott Yanow, as his definitive record.

The Giants of Jazz was a jazz all-star group of the 1970s which featured Art Blakey ( drums ), Dizzy Gillespie ( trumpet ), Al McKibbon ( bass ), Thelonious Monk ( piano ), Sonny Stitt ( alto and tenor sax ), and Kai Winding ( trombone ).

Barlow has also toured and recorded with many other jazz greats including Sonny Stitt, Chet Baker, Gil Evans, Jackie McLean, Billy Cobham, Curtis Fuller, Eddie Palmieri, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Golson, Lee Konitz, Sonny Stitt, Helen Merrill, Mulgrew Miller and Kenny Barron. In 1980 he performed at concerts in Adelaide and Sydney with the Bruce Cale Quartet with Roger Frampton ( piano and saxes ) Bruce Cale ( bass ) and Phil Treloar ( drums ).

Argo become well known for its jazz offerings and jazz performers affiliated with the label included Ahmad Jamal, James Moody, King Fleming, Sonny Stitt and the Ramsey Lewis Trio.

In his teens he played with blues and R & B artists such as Muddy Waters, Dinah Washington, and Bo Diddley, and had the opportunity to jam with jazz players like Max Roach, trumpeter Clifford Brown, and saxophonist Sonny Stitt.

* There's a jazz instrumental by Sonny Stitt on his 1958 album Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements.

Influenced primarily by Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon and George Coleman, Alexander has worked with many notable jazz musicians, including Chicago pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Joseph Farnsworth, and guitarist Pat Martino.

His performance credits also included stints with Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins, Jaki Byard, Booker Ervin, Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon, Lee Konitz, Quincy Jones, Charles Mingus, Tal Farlow and many other top jazz artists.

The Three Sounds recorded over ten jazz albums from the 1950s through the early 70s and played with Lester Young, Lou Donaldson, Nat Adderley, Johnny Griffin, Anita O ' Day and Sonny Stitt among others.

Their opening night in Detroit, Michigan was at Baker's Keyboard Lounge, a jazz club built in the 1930s that has played host to famous musicians including musicians who spanned the genre with artists as diverse as Dexter Gordon and Sonny Stitt.

There was a church at Stitt in the reign of Henry II, but since the dissolution of Haughmond Abbey nothing more is heard of it, and its district with Gatten was annexed to the parish of Ratlinghope.

George Ivan ( Van ) Morrison was born on 31 August 1945, at 125 Hynford Street, Bloomfield, East Belfast, Northern Ireland as the only child of George Morrison, a shipyard electrician, and Violet Stitt Morrison, a singer and tap dancer in her youth.

* YouTube video of J. J. Johnson, Sonny Stitt and Howard McGhee on Now's The Time.

Directed and produced by Stanley Kramer and based on the Broadway play by Milan Stitt, the film was released by Twentieth Century Fox.

His 1945-46 recordings, many as the result of his sudden visibility on the club scene, were for Frank Socolow, Dexter Gordon, J. J. Johnson, Sonny Stitt, Fats Navarro, and Kenny Clarke.

Indeed, Stitt began to develop a far more distinctive sound on tenor.

In 1982, Stitt suffered a heart attack, and he died on July 22 in Washington, D. C ..

Though Nelson's lawyer James Herbert Stitt attempted to portray Nelson as mentally ill and therefore not responsible for his crimes, the jury found Nelson guilty of the Winnipeg slaying of Emily Patterson, found strangled underneath her own bed by her husband who had knelt by the bed to pray for her safe return after finding her missing on the afternoon of June 9.

The idea of a dragon was introduced by Insomniac artist Craig Stitt, while Alex Hastings developed a 3D panoramic engine containing some of the first level of detail renderers used on the PlayStation.

-Steve Coleman also was in contact with Sonny Stitt whom he regards as one of the " cats like Sonny Rollins, Coltrane, Bird Parker … on that same level ".

He has also spun records at New York's NuBlu with Ras Kush and the Black Redemption Sound System, played in the Skaville Circus tent at Reggae Geel in Belgium, and was a guest DJ on the Bingi night held at Bar Clandestino in Rio, and with DJ War at Il Porticcolo in Salento, Italy, as well as at select functions in France for the I-Land Festival in 2004, for which he was also partly responsible for securing performances by King Jammy, Admiral Bailey, King Stitt, Jim Brown, the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari and others.

In 1960, Davis went through saxophonists Jimmy Heath and Sonny Stitt before settling on Hank Mobley in December, the band re-stabilizing for the next two years.