Sonny Stitt- Blows The Blues (Verve Acoustic Sound Series)Label: Verve Reissued 7 12 2024, Originally released 1959 Though some critics foolishly tried to label Stitt as a Charlie Parker clone, Stitt certainly kept them quiet on this 1959 date. Stitts originals, like the slow and powerful Morning After Blues, come off as fresh sounding as executed by this quartet of Lou Levy, Mel Lewis and Leroy Vinnegar. Verves Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180 gram vinyl in

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