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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