What's New!!!
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{{Infobox album
| name = What's New!!!
| type = Studio
| artist = Sonny Stitt
| cover = What's New!!!.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1966
| recorded = June 1966
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| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length =
| label = Roulette
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| producer = Henry Glover
| chronology = Sonny Stitt
| prev_title = Soul in the Night
| prev_year = 1966
| next_title = I Keep Comin' Back!
| next_year = 1966
}}
What's New!!! (subtitled Sonny Stitt Plays the Varitone) is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1966 and released on the Roulette label.Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. [http://www.bsnpubs.com/roulette/roulettea.html Roulette Album Discography, Part 1] accessed January 4, 2013 The album represents Stitt's first recorded use of the varitone, an electronic amplification device which altered the saxophone's sound.Myers, M. [http://news.allaboutjazz.com/news.php?id=91169 Sonny Stitt: Varitone Redux], All About Jazz, December 20, 2011
Reception
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What's New!!! reached number 172 on the Billboard 200 in April 1967 and number 16 on the Jazz Albums chart.{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000911669 |tab=awards |label=Sonny Stitt: What's New > Awards |accessdate=January 4, 2013}} Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000911669 |tab=overview |label=Sonny Stitt: What's New > Overview |accessdate=January 4, 2013}}
Track listing
All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated
- "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) - 2:20
- "Jumpin' with Symphony Sid" (Lester Young) - 3:55
- "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) - 6:06
- "Cocktails for Two" (Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow) - 3:28
- "Georgia" (Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) - 4:11
- "Mame" (Jerry Herman) - 2:10
- "Morgan's Song" - 2:31
- "Fever" (Eddie Cooley, John Davenport) - 2:05
- "Round About Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 3:12
- "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 4:17
- "If I Didn't Care" (Jack Lawrence) - 4:50
- "The Beastly Blues" - 4:50
Personnel
- Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, varitone
- Joe Wilder, Eddie Preston - trumpet
- J. J. Johnson - trombone
- Illinois Jacquet - tenor saxophone
- George Berg - baritone saxophone
- Billy Taylor, Ellis Larkins - piano
- Wild Bill Davis, Ernie Hayes - organ
- Mike Mainieri - vibraphone
- Les Spann - guitar
- Jan Arnet, George Duvivier - bass
- Walter Perkins - drums