New York Jazz Explained

New York Jazz
Type:	album
Artist:	Sonny Stitt
Cover:	New York Jazz (album).jpg
Released:	1956
Recorded:	September 14, 1956 Fine Sound, New York City
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	46:00
Label:	Verve MGV 8219
Producer:	Norman Granz
Prev Title:	Sonny Stitt Plays
Prev Year:	1955
Next Title:	For Musicians Only
Next Year:	1956

New York Jazz is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1956 and originally released on the Verve label.^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated

1. "Norman's Blues" – 2:43
2. "I Know That You Know" (Anne Caldwell, Vincent Youmans) – 4:29
3. "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Ted Shapiro) – 6:19
4. "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 4:54
5. "Twelfth Street Rag" (Euday L. Bowman) – 3:34
6. "Down Home Blues (Funky Blues)" – 5:13
7. "Sonny's Tune" – 5:32
8. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) – 4:11
9. "Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) – 4:31
10. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 4:37

Personnel

Performance

• Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Jimmy Jones – piano
• Ray Brown – bass
• Jo Jones - drums

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/verve-records/catalog-8200-series/#mgv-8219 Verve Records Discography