Tracklist:

1. Blue Devil Blues
2. Home Free Blues
3. Blue Prelude
4. Frankie and Johnny
5. Birth of the Blues
6. A Blues Offering
7. Hymnal Blues
8. Morning After Blues

Though some critics foolishly tried to label Sonny Stitt as a Charlie Parker clone, Stitt certainly kept them quiet on this 1959 date. Stitts originals, like the slow and powerful Morning After Blues, come off as fresh-sounding as executed by this quartet of Lou Levy, Mel Lewisand Leroy Vinnegar. Verves Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.