Side A
- Blue Devil Blues
- Home Free Blues
- Blue Prelude
- Frankie And Johnny
Side B
- Birth Of The Blues
- Blues Offering
- Hymnal Blues
- Morning After Blues
The Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit.
Sonny Stitt: Blows The Blues LP (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series)
- Artist:
- Sonny Stitt
$49.99
Verve, 1960
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."