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Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues

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Released
  
1960

Artist
  
Sonny Stitt

Label
  
Verve Records

Length
  
36:41

Release date
  
1960

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
December 21 & 22, 1959 Los Angeles, California

Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues (1959)
  
Saxophone Supremacy (1959)

Similar
  
Sonny Stitt albums, Jazz albums

Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in late 1959 and released on the Verve label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars stating "Sonny Stitt led a number of excellent record dates in 1959, especially at the end of the year... Playing alto sax throughout this album, Stitt hardly sounds like a Charlie Parker clone, something that unfortunately was a frequent claim by tin-eared critics throughout a fair portion of his career".

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated

  1. "Blue Devil Blues" - 4:28
  2. "Home Free Blues" - 4:23
  3. "Blue Prelude" - 3:07
  4. "Frankie and Johnny" (Hughie Cannon) - 5:31
  5. "The Birth of the Blues" (Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown) - 5:57
  6. "A Blues Offering" - 4:06
  7. "Hymnal Blues" - 6:10
  8. "Morning After Blues" - 2:59
  • Recorded in Los Angeles, California on December 21 (tracks 1 & 6) and December 22 (tracks 2-5, 7 & 8), 1959

    • Personnel

  • Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone
  • Lou Levy - piano
  • Leroy Vinnegar - bass
  • Mel Lewis - drums

    • Songs

    1Blue Devil Blues4:28
    2Home Free Blues4:24
    3Blue Prelude3:07

    References

    Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues Wikipedia
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