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Allmusic[1]

New York Jazz is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1956 and originally released on the Verve label.[2]

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars stating "This is a good session, but like all of Stitt's records, wears thin after about six cuts".[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

References

  1. ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed January 3, 2013
  2. ^ Verve Records Discography accessed January 3, 2013