Previously Unreleased Recordings

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Previously Unreleased Recordings
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Studio album by Sonny Stitt
Released 1973
Recorded June 20, 1960
Los Angeles, California
Genre Jazz
Label Verve
V6-8837
Producer Creed Taylor
Sonny Stitt chronology
Stittsville
(1960)Stittsville1960
Previously Unreleased Recordings
(1960)
Sonny Side Up
(1960)Sonny Side Up1960

Previously Unreleased Recordings is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt featuring compositions associated with Duke Ellington which was originally recorded in 1960 and released on the Verve label in 1973.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[2]

Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated, "the results are typically swinging bop if not overly memorable. Stitt fans will want this one anyway".[2]

Track listing

  1. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) - 5:15
  2. "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) - 7:00
  3. "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, Hans Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) - 5:40
  4. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Mills, Mitchell Parish) - 2:02
  5. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Ellington, Bob Russell) - 4:33
  6. "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" (Ellington, Mills, Henry Nemo, John Redmond) - 4:06
  7. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Ellington, Russell) - 4:58
  8. "C Jam Blues" (Ellington) - 4:27
  9. "Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Ellington, Mills) - 5:22

Personnel

References

  1. Verve Records Discography, accessed December 24, 2012
  2. 2.0 2.1 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed December 24, 2012