Only the Blues

{{Infobox album

| name = Only the Blues

| type = album

| artist = Sonny Stitt

| cover = onlytheblues.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1957

| recorded = October 11, 1957

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 75:03

| label = Verve

| producer = Norman Granz

| prev_title = Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers

| prev_year = 1957

| next_title = Sonny Side Up

| next_year = 1957

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r148163|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}

Only the Blues is a 1957 album by Sonny Stitt, accompanied by Roy Eldridge and Oscar Peterson.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r148163|label=Only the Blues}}

Track listing

  1. "The String (The Eternal Triangle)" (Sonny Stitt) – 10:01
  2. "Cleveland Blues" (Stitt) – 12:02
  3. "B.W. Blues (Boogie Woogie Blues)" (Stitt) – 11:35
  4. "Blues for Bags" (Stitt) – 10:39
  5. : Studio outtakes included on the CD reissue:
  6. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:31
  7. "I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) – 3:54
  8. "I Know That You Know" (Anne Caldwell, Vincent Youmans) – 4:39
  9. "I Know That You Know" (False Start) – 4:55
  10. "I Know That You Know" – 4:47
  11. "I Know That You Know" (Coda Rehearsal) – 3:19
  12. "I Know That You Know" (Composite Master Take) – 4:43

A subsequent Fresh Sound CD issue gives tracks 5 and 6 plus I Know That You Know with only 1 alternate take.

Personnel

=Performance=

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