Eight Classic Albums

Tracklist

• CD 1: Favorites Volume One / The Battle of Birdland
• 1
  Ain't Misbehavin'
  3:03
• 2
  After You're Gone
  2:30
• 3
  Stairway to the Stars
  3:19
• 4
  Blazin'
  3:25
• 5
  Nice Work If You Can Get It
  2:42
• 6
  Our Very Own
  3:10
• 7
  There'll Never Be Another You
  2:35
• 8
  Later
  3:01
• 9
  Marchin'

  Sonny Stitt & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
  8:53
• 10
  S.O.S

  Sonny Stitt & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
  8:01
• 11
  Jaws

  Sonny Stitt & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
  10:07
• 12
  I Can't Get Started

  Sonny Stitt & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
  7:29
• CD 2: Favorites Volume Two / New York Jazz
• 1
  S'Wonderful
  2:29
• 2
  Down With It
  2:33
• 3
  Jeepers Creepers
  2:57
• 4
  For the Fat Man
  2:58
• 5
  Splinter
  2:41
• 6
  Confessin'
  2:38
• 7
  Sonny Sounds
  2:29
• 8
  Stitts It
  2:36
• 9
  Norman's Blues

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  2:41
• 10
  I Know That You Know

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  4:29
• 11
  If I Had You

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  6:19
• 12
  Alone Together

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  4:53
• 13
  Twelfth Street Rag

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  3:33
• 14
  Down Home Blues

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  5:14
• 15
  Sonny's Tune

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  5:33
• 16
  Stars Fell on Alabama

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  4:11
• 17
  Body and Soul

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  4:31
• 18
  Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  4:37
• CD 3: Kaleidoscope / Sonny Side Up
• 1
  Stitts It
  2:36
• 2
  Cool Mambo
  2:40
• 3
  Blue Mambo
  2:26
• 4
  Sonny Sounds
  2:30
• 5
  Ain't Misbehavin'
  3:04
• 6
  Later
  3:02
• 7
  P.S., I Love You
  3:03
• 8
  This Can't Be Love
  2:48
• 9
  Imagination
  3:27
• 10
  Cherokee
  2:34
• 11
  Can't We Be Friends
  2:42
• 12
  Liza
  2:48
• 13
  On the Sunny Side of the Street

  Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins
  5:42
• 14
  The Eternal Triangle

  Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins
  14:13
• 15
  After Hours

  Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins
  12:21
• 16
  I Know That You Know

  Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins
  5:27
• CD 4: Only the Blues / Saxophone Supremacy
• 1
  The String
  10:05
• 2
  Cleveland Blues
  12:04
• 3
  B.W. Blues
  11:37
• 4
  Blues for Bags
  10:42
• 5
  I Cover the Waterfront

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  3:17
• 6
  Lazy Bones

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  7:42
• 7
  Sunday

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  3:56
• 8
  Just Friends

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  3:50
• 9
  All of Me

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  3:02
• 10
  Two Bad Days Blues

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  4:45
• 11
  It's You or No One

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  4:33
• 12
  Blue Smile

  Sonny Stitt Quartet
  4:02

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Release credits

• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [5-6, 9-12]
• Billy Massey
  trumpet [3.1-4, 1.1-8]
• Charlie Bateman
  piano [7-8, 11-12]
• Charlie Persip
  drums (drum set) [13-16]
• Charlie Rice
  membranophone [9-12]
• Dizzy Gillespie
  trumpet [13-16], vocal [13]
• Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
  tenor saxophone [9-12]
• Ernie Shepard
  bass [1-4]
• Eugene Wright
  bass [3.7-12, 1.2, 1.7], double bass [1, 3-6, 8]
• Herb Ellis
  guitar [1-4]
• Humberto Molares
  congas [1-4]
• Jimmy Jones
  piano [9-18]
• Jo Jones
  drums (drum set) [9-18]
• Joe Newman
  trumpet [2, 4]
• John Houston
  piano [1-4]
• John Hunt
  trumpet [1-4]
• Junior Mance
  piano [9-10]
• Kenny Drew
  piano [5-6]
• Leroy Vinnegar
  bass [5-12]
• Lou Levy
  piano [5-12]
• Matthew Gee
  trombone [1-8]
• Mel Lewis
  drums (drum set) [5-12]
• Norman Granz
  producer [2.9-18, 4.1-2, 4.4]
• Oscar Peterson
  piano [1-4]
• Ray Brown
  bass [4.3, 2.9-18], double bass [1-2, 4]
• Ray Bryant
  piano [13-16]
• Roy Eldridge
  trumpet [1-4]
• Shadow Wilson
  drums (drum set) [1-4]
• Sonny Rollins
  saxophone [13-16], tenor saxophone [13]
• Sonny Stitt
  alto saxophone [1-12], saxophone [2.9-18, 1.1-8, 3.7-8, 3.13-16], tenor saxophone [1.9-12, 3.1-6, 3.9-13]
• Stan Levey
  drums (drum set) [1-4]
• Teddy Stewart
  drums (drum set) [7-8]
• Tommy Bryant
  bass [13-16], bass guitar [13]
• Tommy Potter
  bass [5-6]
• Wesley Landers
  drums (drum set) [1, 3-6, 8], membranophone [2, 7]
• ‘Doc’ Bagby
  organ [9-12]
• Show all credits (36)

Issues

• E
  Eight Classic Albums

  4x CD
  2012