SONNY STITT Blows The Blues CLASSIC RECORDS 45rpm 180g AUDIOPHILE (4x) disc set
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SONNY STITT Blows The Blues CLASSIC RECORDS 45rpm 180g AUDIOPHILE (4x) disc set Mastered by Bernie Grundman - Pressed at RTI
Tracklist
A1 Blue Devil Blues A2 Home Free Blues A3 Blue Prelude A4 Frankie And Johnny B1 Birth Of The Blues B2 A Blues Offering B3 Hymnal Blues B4 Morning After Blues*(all photos are of the actual item)
- Alto Saxophone – Sonny Stitt
- Art Direction – Merle Shore
- Bass – Leroy Vinnegar
- Drums – Mel Lewis
- Photography By – Phil Stern
- Piano – Lou Levy
Sonny Stitt led a number of excellent record dates in 1959, especially at the end of the year when he produced three LPs for Verve over a span of three sessions with pianist Lou Levy, bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Mel Lewis. 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. The music includes several potent originals, especially "Hymnal Blues" and the slow, powerful "Morning After Blues."
Originally released in 1970.
Sonny Stitt recorded in an impressive variety of contexts, ranging from the octet format featured in Jimmy Giuffre's arrangements to informal sessions with such swing era prototypes as Roy Eldridge, with whom he was teamed for Only The Blues.
It was in the latter set that Sonny's superb feeling for the 12-bar blues form came most conspicuously into focus. On the present sides, Sonny again reverts to the blues, this time in an even simpler setting composed of 3 musicians who, like Sonny, are essentially products of the modern jazz scene, but have firm roots in the jazz tradition of which the blues has remained a perpetual, unquenchable guiding light.
Sonny plays alto on all tracks. Five of the eight numbers are ad lib blues with a nominal thematic framework to open and close; the others are Isham Jones' Blue Prelude, which somebody suggested on the date--Sonny had never played it before; Frankie and Johnny, probably the oldest blues theme now in general use (it orginated in the early 19th century), and the old pop song Birth of the Blues. Highlights among the originals are Home Free, a minor key blues, and Hymnal, a "sanctified" blues based on an old hymn. Sonny is also at his earthiest and most moving in the very slow blues in G, Morning After, that closes the set.
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