Sonny Stitt: Blows The Blues LP (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) etjs-launch-feb-09 pianist Aaron Parks made his

pianist Aaron Parks made his own Blue Note debut in 2008 with Invisible Cinema

features guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan

and an Ampeg amp

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and the only known non-studio recording of Coltrane's "Africa"

Sonny Stitt: Blows The Blues LP (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) etjs-launch-feb-09 pianist Aaron Parks made hisVerve, 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