Sonny Stitt: Blows The Blues LP (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) etjs-launch-feb-09 Dewey Redman — Imani

Dewey Redman — Imani

Forget Regret

Love Supreme Pt

features guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan

Sonny Clark seemed to arrive fully formed on his supremely swinging debut album Dial “S” for Sonny recorded for Blue Note in 1957

Sonny Stitt: Blows The Blues LP (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) etjs-launch-feb-09 Dewey Redman — ImaniVerve, 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