1. Blue Bossa
2. Windows
3. Darn That Dream
4. Wave
5. She Moved Through The Fair
6. Make Someone Happy
7. I'm All Smiles
8. Stella By Starlight
9. Lazy Afternoon
10. Invitation
11. I'm Old Fashioned
12. General Mojos Well Laid Plan
13. What's New
14. I'll Remember April
15. Spring Is Here
16. Blues
17. Forest Flower
18. What's New - alt take
19. Spring Is Here - alt take

A remastered edition of 1977 LP and 1995 CD release. A brand new 19 track version of the album with 3 extra tracks and 16 page sleeve notes by Irish Times Jazz correspondent, Cormac Larkin, with several previously unpublished photographs.

Includes digital pre-order of Out On His Own. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

New, remastered 2022 version with 3 extra tracks and new 16 page sleeve notes booklet with lots of unpublished photographs.

Originally released in 1977, “Out On His Own” is a fitting title for Louis Stewart as the 1st Irish jazz musician to attain international front-rank status. This solo record features a mix of lead-only and rhythm with lead tracks with a repertoire of Jazz and American Songbook standards, tracks from contemporary composers (Chick Corea, Steve Swallow etc.) plus an interpretation of an Irish traditional tune and a self-composed blues.

“Out On His Own” was Livia Record’s first release in 1977, meeting with excellent press reviews as e.g.

Sunday Times critic Derek Jewell: “Louis is revealed here as a guitar virtuoso already of considerable maturity. A virtuoso in anyone's language, and … a musician to be spoken of in the same league as Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, or, among contemporary virtuoso's, Joe Pass.”

Irish Times critic, Ray Comiskey: “a performance of such virtuosity, that very few guitarists of any era could ever hope to match it ...a brilliant combination of melodic inventiveness, harmonic ingenuity, technical virtuosity and sheer joy in playing that seems certain to win for it an outstanding place in the record of Jazz guitar”

Ronnie Scott: “Louis is a superbly talented natural musician. In my book he's one of the world's great jazz guitarists”

Credits

Louis Stewart: Guitar

Original Production: Gerald Davis

2022 Version Production: Dermot Rogers

Mastering: Michael Buckley at House Of Horn Studios

Sleeve Notes: Cormac Larkin

Art Work: Jon Berkeley at Holy Trousers

Cover Photo: Roy Esmonde

Masters Retrieval and Re-Issue Support: Davis Family

Project Support: Stewart Family