Sonny Stitt: Blows The Blues LP (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) ETJS-1.03 Howard Levy and finally the

Howard Levy and finally the wonderful three part 1950’s Nashville style harmonies of the Good Lovelies

Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’ is a never-before-issued live recording of jazz legends McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson leading a stellar quartet with bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Jack DeJohnette at the hallowed lost NYC jazz shrine

On Pastel Blues

and drummer Brian Blade

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Sonny Stitt: Blows The Blues LP (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) ETJS-1.03 Howard Levy and finally theVerve, 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