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Discovery Records
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• Two sparkling Sonny Stitt albums “Blows the Blues” and “The Hard Swing” - both recorded in 1959, the first on the West Coast, the second on the East.
• 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 inspired: 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 labelled 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.
• Personnel : Sonny Stitt (as, ts), Lou Levy, Amos Trice (p), Leroy Vinnegar, George Morrow (b), Mel Lewis, Lennie McBrowne (d) - recorded Los Angeles, December, 1959; and New York, February, 1959.
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Track Listing for Blows the Blues - The Hard Swing
Blows the Blues
1 Blue Devil Blues
2 Home Free Blues
3 Blue Prelude
4 Frankie and Johnny
5 Birth of the Blues
6 A Blues Offering
7 Hymnal Blues
8 Mornin’ after Blues
The Hard Swing
9 Blues for Lester
10 After You’ve Gone
11 Street of Dreams
12 The Way You Look Tonight
13 Presto
14 Tune Up
15 I Got Rhythm
16 What’s New?
17 Subito
18 If I Had You
19 I’ll Remember April
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Reviews |
| Jazz Rag - Peter Vacher |
| The music is simply terrific, Stitt at his best, hot, intense, seldom short of a good idea. |
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