• 01. Love Letters 05:32
Performed by Sonny Rollins, Henry Grimes, Joe Harris
Music by Victor Young, Ed Heyman
Published by Sony ATV Harmony
• 02. Paul's Pal 07:27
Performed by Sonny Rollins, Henry Grimes, Joe Harris
Music by Sonny Rollins
Published by Prestige Music, Co.
• 03. It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That... 04:29
Performed by Sonny Rollins, Henry Grimes, Joe Harris
Music by Duke Ellington
Published by Sony ATV Harmony
• 04. Matter Horns 10:43
Performed by Sonny Stitt, Howard McGhee, Walter Bishop Jr, Tommy Potter, Kenny Clarke
Music by Sonny Stitt
Published by Sonny Stitt Music
• 05. Lover Man 05:16
Performed by Sonny Stitt, Howard McGhee, Walter Bishop Jr, Tommy Potter, Kenny Clarke
Music by Roger Ramirez, James Sherman, J.E. Davis
Published by Universal Music Corp. Inc.
• 06. Night Work 07:24
Performed by Sonny Stitt, Howard McGhee, Walter Bishop Jr, Tommy Potter, Kenny Clarke
Music by Sonny Stitt
Published by Sonny Stitt Music

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• Sonny Rollins - saxophone
• Henry Grimes - bass
• Joe Harris - drums
• Sonny Stitt - saxophone
• Howard McGhee - trumpet
• Walter Bishop, Jr. - piano
• Tommy Potter - bass
• Kenny Clarke - drums

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Sonny Rollins's first examples of the unaccompanied solo playing that would become a specialty appeared at the end of the 1950s; yet the perpetually dissatisfied saxophonist questioned the acclaim his music was attracting, and between 1959 and late '61 withdrew from public performance. Sonny remembers that he took his leave of absence from the scene because "I was getting very famous at the time and I felt I needed to brush up on various aspects of my craft. I felt I was getting too much, too soon, so I said, wait a minute, I'm going to do it my way. I wasn't going to let people push me out there, so I could fall down. I wanted to get myself together, on my own. I used to practice on the Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge because I was living on the Lower East Side at the time." Sonny Stitt joined Miles Davis briefly in 1960, and his sole performance with the 1960 quintet is on the record Live at Stockholm, which featured Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb and Paul Chambers. However, Miles fired him due to the excessive drinking habit he had developed, and replaced him with Hank Mobley. Stitt, later in the 1960s paid homage to one of his main influences, Charlie Parker, on the seminal cut "Stitt Plays Bird", which features Jim Hall on guitar. He recorded a number of memorable records with his friend and fellow saxophonist Gene Ammons. 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 of the best duelling partnerships in jazz, alongside Zoot Sims & Al Cohn, and Johnny Griffin with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. Stitt would venture into soul jazz, and he recorded with fellow tenor great Booker Ervin in 1964 on the enjoyable Soul People album. Stitt would also record with Duke Ellington alumnus Paul Gonsalves during the 1960s.

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