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 Only the Blues is a 1957 album by Sonny Stitt, accompanied by Roy Eldridge and Oscar Peterson.[2] 
  Track listing
 - "The String (The Eternal Triangle)" (Sonny Stitt) – 10:01
- "Cleveland Blues" (Stitt) – 12:02
- "B.W. Blues (Boogie Woogie Blues)" (Stitt) – 11:35
- "Blues for Bags" (Stitt) – 10:39 - Studio outtakes included on the CD reissue:
 
- "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:31
- "I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) – 3:54
- "I Know That You Know" (Anne Caldwell, Vincent Youmans) – 4:39
- "I Know That You Know" (False Start) – 4:55
- "I Know That You Know" – 4:47
- "I Know That You Know" (Coda Rehearsal) – 3:19
- "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
   References
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 co-leader
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 | Plays the Songbook
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 | The London
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 | Trio &
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 | Exclusively for
 My
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 | 1969–79 |  Hello Herbie (1969)Motions and Emotions (with Claus Ogerman, 1969)Another Day (1970)Tracks (1970)Tristeza on Piano (1970)Walking the Line (1970)Great Connection (1971)In Tune (and The Singers Unlimited, 1971)Reunion Blues (and Milt Jackson, 1971)In Tokyo (1972)Solo (1972)The History of an Artist, Vol. 1 (1972)The History of an Artist, Vol. 2 (1972)The trio (Pablo, 1973)In Russia (1974)The Giants (1974)The Good Life (1974)Oscar Peterson et Joe Pass à Salle Pleyel (1975)Porgy and Bess (and Joe Pass, 1975)The Oscar Peterson Big 6 at Montreux (1975)The Tenor Giants (and Zoot Sims and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975)And the Bassists – Montreux '77 (and Ray Brown & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1977)Jam – Montreux '77 (1977)The London Concert (1978)The Paris Concert (1978)Digital at Montreux (1979)Night Child (1979)Skol (with Stéphane Grappelli, 1979)
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| With Count
 Basie
 or
 alumni
 |  Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1952)Basie Jazz (Count Basie, 1952)Pres and Sweets (Lester Young and Harry Edison, 1955)Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Harry Edison, 1957)Going for Myself (Lester Young & Harry Edison, 1957)Jazz Giants '58 (Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan & Harry Edison, 1958)Satch and Josh (and Count Basie, 1974)Satch and Josh...Again (and Count Basie, 1977)Night Rider (and Count Basie, 1978)The Timekeepers (and Count Basie, 1978)Yessir, That's My Baby (and Count Basie, 1978)Oscar Peterson + Harry Edison + Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (1986)
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| With Benny
 Carter
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| With Roy
 Eldridge
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| With Ella
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| Coleman Hawkins
 and/or Ben
 Webster
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| With Buddy
 Rich
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| With others
 |  The Astaire Story (Fred Astaire, 1952)Buddy DeFranco and Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin (1954)Ellis in Wonderland (Herb Ellis, 1955–56)Toni (Toni Harper, 1955–56)Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (1957)Anita Sings the Most (Anita O'Day, 1957) (Sonny Stitt, 1957)Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera House (1957)Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio (1957)This Is Ray Brown (Roy Brown, 1958)Sonny Stitt Sits in (1959)Bill Henderson with (1963)Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (1975)The Milt Jackson Big 4 (1975)Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 4 – Montreux '77 (1977)How Long Has This Been Going On? (Sarah Vaughan, 1978)Linger Awhile (Sarah Vaughan, 1978)Ain't Misbehavin' (Clark Terry, 1978)Ain't But a Few of Us Left (Milt Jackson, 1981)Hark (Buddy DeFranco, 1985)Some of My Best Friends Are...The Piano Players (Ray Brown, 1994)
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| Film soundtracks
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| Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. | 
| As leader or
 co-leader
 |  Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50)Stitt's Bits (1950)Kaleidoscope (1950–52)Jazz at the Hi-Hat (1954)The Battle of Birdland (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1954)Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (1955)Sonny Stitt Plays (1955)New York Jazz (1956)For Musicians Only (with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, 1956)37 Minutes and 48 Seconds with Sonny Stitt (c.1956/57) (1957)Personal Appearance (1957)Sonny Stitt with the New Yorkers (1957)Burnin' (1958)Sonny Stitt (1958)The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt (1958)A Little Bit of Stitt (1959)Saxophone Supremacy (1959)Sonny Stitt Blows the Blues (1959)Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements (1959)Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1959)Sonny Side Up (with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins, Verve, 1959)Sonny Stitt Swings the Most (1959)The Hard Swing (1959)The Sonny Side of Stitt (1959)Previously Unreleased Recordings (1960)Sonny Side Up (Roost, 1960)Stittsville (1960)Stitt in Orbit (1960–62)Sonny Stitt at the D. J. Lounge (1961)The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt (1961)Feelin's (1962)Low Flame (1962)Rearin' Back (1962)Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (1962)Stitt Meets Brother Jack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1962)Move on Over (1963)My Mother's Eyes (1963)Now! (1963)Primitivo Soul! (1963)Salt and Pepper (and Paul Gonsalves, 1963)Soul Shack (with "Brother" Jack McDuff, 1963)Stitt Goes Latin (1963)Stitt Plays Bird (1963)My Main Man (and Bennie Green, 1964)Shangri-La (with Don Patterson, 1964)Sax Expressions (1965)Sonny Stitt / Live at Ronnie Scott's (with Dick Morrissey, 1965)Soul People (with Booker Ervin and Don Patterson, 1964–69)Broadway Soul (1965)Inter-Action (and Zoot Sims, 1965)Night Crawler (with Don Patterson, 1965)Pow! (with Bennie Green, 1965)The Matadors Meet the Bull (1965)Deuces Wild (1966)I Keep Comin' Back! (1966)Soul in the Night (and Bunky Green, 1966)What's New!!! (1966)Parallel-a-Stitt (1967)Little Green Apples (1968)Soul Electricity! (1968)Come Hither (1969)Night Letter (1969)Black Vibrations (1971)Turn It On! (1971)12! (1972)Constellation (1972)Goin' Down Slow (1972)Tune-Up! (1972)Mr. Bojangles (1973)The Champ (1973)Satan (1974)Blues for Duke (1975)Dumpy Mama (1975)Mellow (1975)My Buddy: Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons (1975)Forecast: Sonny & Red (with Red Holloway, 1976)I Remember Bird (1978)Stomp Off Let's Go (1976)Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington (1977)In Style (1981)The Last Sessions (1982)
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| And Gene
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| With Dizzy
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| With Don
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