Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, & Sonny Rollins – Sonny Side Up (LP Vinyl) artist-lukas-nelson A Dying Man's Plea (3:49)

A Dying Man's Plea (3:49)

and the album leans into that cosmic weight across eight expansive tracks built around Tillman and longtime collaborator Drew Erickson's sweeping arrangements

It's All Right"

while "Every Heartbeat" channels the vulnerability of rebuilding after personal devastation

a follow-up to 2020’s acclaimed Texas Sun project

Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, & Sonny Rollins – Sonny Side Up (LP Vinyl) artist-lukas-nelson A Dying Man's Plea (3:49)The "cutting session" tradition runs deep in jazz history, and few recordings capture that competitive fire as naturally as this one. Stitt and Rollins represented genuinely different schools of bebop tenor, with Stitt widely considered one of the most technically formidable saxophonists alive at the time, while Rollins was already rewriting the rulebook on what improvisation could be. Gillespie, characteristically, holds the whole thing together with