Dig Him!

Dig Him!
Dig Him!
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Studio album by Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons
Released	1961
Recorded	August 26, 1961 ; Chicago, Illinois
Genre	Jazz
Length	40:31
Label	Argo; LP 697
Sonny Stitt chronology
Gene Ammons chronology
We'll Be Together Again Cover
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Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat (Original Lp release)	File:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star empty.svg^[1]
Allmusic	File:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star full.svgFile:Star empty.svg^[2]

Dig Him! is an album by saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt recorded in 1961 and originally released on the Argo label in 1961.^[3] The album was rereleased as We'll Be Together Again on the Prestige label in 1968.

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "The two tenors always brought out the best in each other, and luckily, they would get back together in the early '70s. This is high-quality bebop".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated

"Red Sails in the Sunset" (Jimmy Kennedy, Hugh Williams) - 4:23
"But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:19
"A Pair of Red Pants" - 4:39
"We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine) - 4:36
"A Mess" - 3:19
"New Blues Up and Down" (Stitt, Gene Ammons) - 3:57
"My Foolish Heart" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 5:14
"Water Jug" (Frank Wess) - 2:39
"Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 4:11
"Time on My Hands" (Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon, Vincent Youmans) - 3:53

Personnel

Gene Ammons - tenor saxophone
Sonny Stitt - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
John Houston - piano
Buster Williams - bass
George Brown - drums

References

↑ Down Beat: May 9, 1963 Vol. 30, No. 11
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed December 10, 2012
↑ Gene Ammons discography accessed December 10, 2012

[1] Down Beat: May 9, 1963 Vol. 30, No. 11

[Allmusic-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed December 10, 2012

[3] Gene Ammons discography accessed December 10, 2012

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v t e Gene Ammons
Studio albums	All Star Sessions The Happy Blues Jammin' with Gene Funky Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons The Big Sound Groove Blues Blue Gene The Swingin'est Boss Tenor Nice an' Cool Jug Dig Him! Boss Tenors Just Jug Up Tight! Boss Soul! Twisting the Jug Brother Jack Meets the Boss Boss Tenors in Orbit! Soul Summit Soul Summit Vol. 2 Late Hour Special The Soulful Moods of Gene Ammons Blue Groove Preachin' Jug & Dodo Velvet Soul Angel Eyes Sock! Bad! Bossa Nova The Boss Is Back! Brother Jug! Night Lights The Black Cat! You Talk That Talk! My Way Free Again Got My Own Big Bad Jug Brasswind Together Again for the Last Time Goodbye
Live albums	Groovin' with Jug The Chase! Chicago Concert God Bless Jug and Sonny Left Bank Encores Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux Gene Ammons in Sweden
Related articles	Albert Ammons

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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