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Sunday, November 28, 2021

Sonny Stitt • Blows the Blues & The Hard Swing



The Blues and Sonny Stitt always had a smooth and engrossing partnership. These performances live up to their full potential, with Stitt in excellent form, at his most sparkling: quick fingers, a nimble musical mind, a well-developed ear, fine sense of time, attractive sound, and good intonation. He was a swinger full of energy, with unusual technical facility. But even when he was a lot closer to Charlie Parker, he always had things of his own to say: such a lyrical player could never be accurately labeled just a Parker clone or a hard swinger. Either way, he always injected much life into his playing, displaying his considerable virtuosity, blues feeling, and controlled emotion.
 
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El blues y Sonny Stitt siempre han tenido una asociación fluida y absorbente. Estas interpretaciones están a la altura de su potencial, con Stitt en excelente forma, en su momento más brillante: dedos rápidos, una mente musical ágil, un oído bien desarrollado, un fino sentido del tiempo, un sonido atractivo y una buena entonación. Era un músico lleno de energía, con una facilidad técnica inusual. Pero incluso cuando estaba mucho más cerca de Charlie Parker, siempre tenía cosas propias que decir: un intérprete tan lírico nunca podría ser etiquetado con exactitud como un simple clon de Parker o un swinger duro. En cualquier caso, siempre inyectó mucha vida en su forma de tocar, mostrando su considerable virtuosismo, su sentimiento de blues y su emoción controlada. 


Tracklist (2 Lps On 1 Cd)
1 Blue Devil Blues (Stitt) 4:23
2 Home Free Blues (Stitt) 4:19
3 Blue Prelude (Jenkins, Bishop) 3:03
4 Frankie and Johnny (trad.) 5:28
5 Birth of the Blues (DeSylva, Brown, Henderson) 5:53
6 A Blues Offering (Stitt) 4:01
7 Hymnal Blues (Stitt) 6:03
8 Mornin’ after Blues (Stitt) 2:58
9 Blues for Lester (Stitt) 4:18
10 After You’ve Gone (Creamer, Layton) 3:42
11 Street of Dreams (Lewis, Young) 2:37
12 The Way You Look Tonight (Fields, Kern) 4:57
13 Presto (Stitt) 3:22
14 Tune Up (Davis) 4:02
15 I Got Rhythm (Gershwin, Gershwin) 3:03
16 What’s New ? (Haggart, Burke) 3:39
17 Subito (Stitt) 3:54
18 If I Had You (Campbell, Connelly, Shapiro) 4:06
19 I’ll Remember April (Raye, DePaul, Johnston) 4:33

Personnel
[# 1-8] from "Sonny Stitt Blows The Blues" (Verve MG VS-6149 / Stereo)
Sonny Stitt - as & ts
Lou Levy - p
Leroy Vinnegar - b
Mel Lewis - dr
Recorded in Los Angeles ; December 2 [# 1 & 6], & 22 [# 2-5, 7-8], 1959
[# 9-19] from "The Hard Swing" (Verve MG VS-6038 / Stereo)
Sonny Stitt - as & ts
Amos Trice - p
George Morrow - b
Lennie McBrowne - dr
Recorded in New York ; February 9, 1959.










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4 comments:

  1. From Leonard Feather's liner notes, it seems that Sonny plays all alto sax on "Blows The Blues".
    The Fresh Sound back paper wrongly credits him with both alto and tenor. Cheers!

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    1. Thank you very much for this clarification.
      Regards!

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