Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Afternoon in Paris (take 1)
  3:07
• 2
  Afternoon in Paris (take 2)
  3:05
• 3
  Elora (take 1)
  3:06
• 4
  Elora (take 2)
  3:12
• 5
  Teapot (take 1)
  2:45
• 6
  Teapot (take 2)
  3:06
• 7
  Blue Mode (take 1)
  3:48
• 8
  Blue Mode (take 2)
  2:53
• 9
  All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
  3:01
• 10
  Sonny Side
  2:23
• 11
  Bud's Blues
  2:36
• 12
  Sunset
  3:49
• 13
  Strike Up the Band
  3:29
• 14
  Strike Up the Band (alternate take)
  2:54
• 15
  I Want to Be Happy
  3:14
• 16
  Taking a Chance on Love
  2:36
• 17
  Fine and Dandy (take 1)
  2:44
• 18
  Fine and Dandy (take 2)
  2:43
• 19
  Avalon
  2:32
• 20
  Later
  3:03
• 21
  Ain't Misbehavin'
  3:05
• 22
  Mean to Me
  3:10
• 23
  Stairway to the Stars
  3:19
• 24
  Bye Bye
  3:04
• 25
  Let It Be
  3:07
• CD 2
• 1
  Blues Up and Down (take 1)
  1:28
• 2
  Blues Up and Down (take 2)
  2:25
• 3
  Blues Up and Down (take 3)
  2:40
• 4
  You Can Depend on Me (take 1)
  2:52
• 5
  You Can Depend on Me (take 2)
  2:51
• 6
  Touch of the Blues
  3:12
• 7
  Dumb Woman Blues
  2:50
• 8
  Chabootie
  3:04
• 9
  Who Threw the Sleeping Pills in Rip Van Winkle's Coffee?
  2:35
• 10
  Gravy
  3:03
• 11
  Easy Glide
  3:00
• 12
  Count Every Star
  3:02
• 13
  Nice Work If You Can Get It
  2:42
• 14
  There Will Never Be Another You
  2:35
• 15
  Blazin'
  3:26
• 16
  Back in Your Own Back Yard
  3:15
• 17
  Sweet Jennie Lou
  2:38
• 18
  La Vie en rose
  3:05
• 19
  Seven Eleven
  2:56
• 20
  To Think You've Chosen Me
  3:02
• 21
  After You've Gone
  2:30
• 22
  Our Very Own
  3:10
• 23
  'S Wonderful
  2:29
• 24
  Stringin' the Jug
  5:07
• 25
  Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)
  2:50
• CD 3
• 1
  Jeepers Creepers
  2:58
• 2
  Imagination
  3:27
• 3
  Cherokee
  2:35
• 4
  'Round About One A.M.
  3:05
• 5
  Jug
  2:52
• 6
  Wow
  2:56
• 7
  Blues and Sentimental
  3:12
• 8
  Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
  2:50
• 9
  Can't We Be Friends
  2:43
• 10
  New Blues Up and Down
  5:10
• 11
  The Thrill of Your Kiss
  2:45
• 12
  If the Moon Turns Green
  2:47
• 13
  P.S. I Love You
  3:04
• 14
  This Can't Be Love
  2:50
• 15
  Down with It
  2:35
• 16
  For the Fat Man
  2:59
• 17
  Splinter
  2:43
• 18
  Confessin'
  2:39
• 19
  Undecided
  2:42
• 20
  (It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along
  2:42
• 21
  Because of Rain
  2:50
• 22
  Charmaine
  3:02
• 23
  Cool Mambo
  2:42
• 24
  Sonny Sounds
  2:31
• 25
  Blue Mambo
  2:28
• 26
  Stitt's It
  2:33

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Release credits

• J.J. Johnson
  trombone [1-8]
• John Lewis
  piano [1-8]
• Max Roach
  drums (drum set) [1-8]
• Nelson Boyd
  double bass [1, 1-3, 3-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8]
• Sonny Stitt
  tenor saxophone [1-8]

Issues

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  Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952

  3x CD
  25 July 2006