Blue Mitchell
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Richard Allen Mitchell (March 13, 1930 – May 21, 1979) was an American
jazz
, rhythm and blues
, soul
, rock
, and funk
trumpeter, known for many albums recorded as leader and sideman for Riverside
, Blue Note
and then Mainstream Records
.
. He began playing trumpet in high school where he acquired his nickname, Blue.
After high school he played in the rhythm and blues ensembles of Paul Williams
, Earl Bostic
, and Chuck Willis
. After returning to Miami he was noticed by Cannonball Adderley
, with whom he recorded for Riverside Records
in New York in 1958.
He then joined the Horace Silver
Quintet playing with tenor saxophonist Junior Cook
, bassist Gene Taylor
and drummer Roy Brooks
. Mitchell stayed with Silver's group until the band's break-up in 1964. After the Silver quintet disbanded, Mitchell formed a group with members from the Silver quintet substituting the young pianist Chick Corea
for Silver and replacing Brooks, who had fallen ill, with drummer Al Foster
. This group produced a number of records for Blue Note
disbanding in 1969, after which Mitchell joined and toured with Ray Charles
till 1971.
From 1971 to 1973 Mitchell performed with John Mayall
on Jazz Blues Fusion. From the mid-70s he recorded and worked as a session man in the genres noted previously, performed with the big band leaders Louie Bellson
, Bill Holman and Bill Berry
and was principal soloist for Tony Bennett
and Lena Horne
. Other band leaders Mitchell recorded with include Lou Donaldson
, Grant Green
, Philly Joe Jones
, Jackie McLean
, Hank Mobley
, Johnny Griffin
, Al Cohn
, Dexter Gordon
and Jimmy Smith
. Blue Mitchell kept his hard-bop playing going with the Harold Land
quintet up until his death from cancer on May 21, 1979 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 49.
United States
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jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
, soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
, rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
, and funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
trumpeter, known for many albums recorded as leader and sideman for Riverside
Riverside Records
Riverside Records was a United States record label specializing in jazz. Founded by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer under his firm Bill Grauer Productions, Inc. in 1953, the label was a major presence in the jazz record industry for a decade...
, Blue Note
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
and then Mainstream Records
Mainstream Records
Mainstream Records was an American record label, which released jazz, rock music, and soundtracks during the 1970s.It was founded in 1964 by Bob Shad, and in its early history reissued material from Commodore Records and Time Records in addition to some new jazz material...
.
Biography
Mitchell was born and raised in Miami, FloridaMiami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
. He began playing trumpet in high school where he acquired his nickname, Blue.
After high school he played in the rhythm and blues ensembles of Paul Williams
Paul Williams (saxophonist)
Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams was an American blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist and songwriter. In his Honkers and Shouters, Arnold Shaw credits Williams as one of the first to employ the honking tenor sax solo that became the hallmark of rhythm and blues and rock and roll in the 1950s and...
, Earl Bostic
Earl Bostic
Earl Bostic was an American jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist, and a pioneer of the post-war American Rhythm and Blues style. He had a number of popular hits such as "Flamingo", "Harlem Nocturne", "Temptation", "Sleep", "Special Delivery Stomp", and "Where or When", which showed off his...
, and Chuck Willis
Chuck Willis
Harold "Chuck" Willis was an American blues, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll singer and songwriter. His biggest hits, "C. C. Rider" and "What Am I Living For" , both reached no. 1 in the Billboard R&B chart...
. After returning to Miami he was noticed by Cannonball Adderley
Julian Cannonball Adderley
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley was a jazz alto saxophonist of the hard-bop era of the 1950s and 1960s....
, with whom he recorded for Riverside Records
Riverside Records
Riverside Records was a United States record label specializing in jazz. Founded by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer under his firm Bill Grauer Productions, Inc. in 1953, the label was a major presence in the jazz record industry for a decade...
in New York in 1958.
He then joined the Horace Silver
Horace Silver
Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....
Quintet playing with tenor saxophonist Junior Cook
Junior Cook
Herman "Junior" Cook was a hard bop tenor saxophone player.-Biography:Cook was born in Pensacola, Florida. After playing with Dizzy Gillespie in 1958, Cook gained some fame for his longtime membership in the Horace Silver Quintet ; when he and Blue Mitchell left that band, Cook played in...
, bassist Gene Taylor
Gene Taylor (musician)
Gene Taylor is an American blues rock and boogie-woogie pianist.-Biography:Taylor began his musical training as a drummer at age eight but two years later he had picked up both the guitar and his initial piano skills from boogie-woogie pianist-neighbours...
and drummer Roy Brooks
Roy Brooks
Roy Brooks was an American hard bop jazz drummer.-Biography:Brooks was born in Detroit and drummed since childhood. He was an outstanding varsity basketball player as a teenager and was offered a scholarship to the Detroit Institute of Technology; he attended the school for three semesters and...
. Mitchell stayed with Silver's group until the band's break-up in 1964. After the Silver quintet disbanded, Mitchell formed a group with members from the Silver quintet substituting the young pianist Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
for Silver and replacing Brooks, who had fallen ill, with drummer Al Foster
Al Foster
Al Foster is an American jazz drummer. Foster played with Miles Davis's large funk fusion group in the 70s, was one of the few people to have contact with Miles during his retirement, and was also part of his comeback album The Man With the Horn of 1981...
. This group produced a number of records for Blue Note
Blue note
In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres. Country blues, in particular, features wide variations from the...
disbanding in 1969, after which Mitchell joined and toured with Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
till 1971.
From 1971 to 1973 Mitchell performed with John Mayall
John Mayall
John Mayall, OBE is an English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, whose musical career spans over fifty years...
on Jazz Blues Fusion. From the mid-70s he recorded and worked as a session man in the genres noted previously, performed with the big band leaders Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson
Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni , better known by the stage name Louie Bellson , was an Italian-American jazz drummer...
, Bill Holman and Bill Berry
Bill Berry
William "Bill" Thomas Berry is a retired American musician, multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. In addition to his drumming duties, Berry played many other instruments including guitar, bass guitar, and piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M....
and was principal soloist for Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
and Lena Horne
Lena Horne
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the...
. Other band leaders Mitchell recorded with include Lou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to playing the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker.His first recordings were...
, Grant Green
Grant Green
Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer....
, Philly Joe Jones
Philly Joe Jones
Joseph Rudolph Jones was a Philadelphia-born United States jazz drummer, known as the drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet.Philly Joe Jones was often confused with another influential jazz drummer, Jo Jones...
, Jackie McLean
Jackie McLean
John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City.-Biography:McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra...
, Hank Mobley
Hank Mobley
Henry Mobley was an American hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz...
, Johnny Griffin
Johnny Griffin
John Arnold Griffin III was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist.- Early life and career :Griffin studied music at DuSable High School in Chicago under Walter Dyett, starting out on clarinet before moving on to oboe and then alto sax...
, Al Cohn
Al Cohn
Al Cohn was an American jazz saxophonist and arranger and composer.-Biography:Alvin Gilbert Cohn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was initially known in the 1940s for playing in Woody Herman's Second Herd as one of the Four Brothers, along with Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, and Serge Chaloff...
, Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...
and Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith (musician)
Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B-3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument...
. Blue Mitchell kept his hard-bop playing going with the Harold Land
Harold Land
Harold de Vance Land was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist. Land developed his hard bop playing with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown band into a personal, modern style. His tone was strong and emotional, yet displayed a certain fragility that made him easy to...
quintet up until his death from cancer on May 21, 1979 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 49.
As Leader
| Year | Title | Label | Personnel |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Big 6 Big 6 (album) Big 6 is the debut album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1958 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 5 stars and stated "Mitchell is heard in excellent form in an all-star sextet".-Track listing:*Recorded in New York City... |
Riverside | |
| 1959 | Out of the Blue Out of the Blue (Blue Mitchell album) Out of the Blue is the second album led by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded and released in 1959 on the Riverside label.-Reception:... |
Riverside | |
| 1959 | Blue Soul Blue Soul Blue Soul is the third album led by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded and released in 1959 on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael G... |
Riverside | |
| 1960 | Blue's Moods Blue's Moods Blue's Moods is the third album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "the trumpeter is typically distinctive, swinging and inventive within the hard bop... |
Riverside | |
| 1961 | Smooth as the Wind Smooth as the Wind Smooth as the Wind is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell with strings and brass recorded in late 1960 and early 1961 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:... |
Riverside | |
| 1962 | A Sure Thing A Sure Thing A Sure Thing is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell with orchestra recorded in late 1962 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:... |
Riverside | |
| 1962 | The Cup Bearers The Cup Bearers The Cup Bearers is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The music swings hard, mostly avoids sounding like a Horace Silver group, and has particularly... |
Riverside | |
| 1963 | Step Lightly Step Lightly Step Lightly is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell featuring his first session recorded for the Blue Note label in 1964 but not released until 1980.-Reception:... |
Blue Note, Released 1980 | |
| 1964 | The Thing to Do The Thing to Do (album) The Thing to Do is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1964 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 5 stars and stated "The record is prime Blue Note hard bop, containing inventive tunes, meaningful solos, and an... |
Blue Note | |
| 1965 | Down with It! Down with It! Down with It! is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 4 stars and stated "the record is so relaxed that it fails to generate much spark, but each the soloists... |
Blue Note | |
| 1966 | Bring It Home to Me Bring It Home to Me Bring It Home to Me is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars.-Track listing:# "Bring It Home to Me" - 7:58... |
Blue Note | |
| 1966 | Boss Horn Boss Horn Boss Horn is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Matt Collar awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Trumpeter Blue Mitchell delivers a solid hard bop date with his 1966 Blue Note release Boss Horn".-Track... |
Blue Note | |
| 1967 | Heads Up! Heads Up! (album) Heads Up! is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1967 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars.-Track listing:# "Heads Up! Feet Down!" - 5:59... |
Blue Note | |
| 1968 | Collision in Black Collision in Black Collision in Black is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell which features compositions and arrangements by Monk Higgins recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label in 1969.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars.... |
Blue Note | |
| 1969 | Bantu Village Bantu Village Bantu Village is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell which features arrangements by Monk Higgins recorded and released on the Blue Note label in 1969.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars.... |
Blue Note | |
| 1971 | Blue Mitchell Blue Mitchell (album) Blue Mitchell is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1971 and released on the Mainstream label.-Reception:... (AKA Soul Village) |
Mainstream | |
| 1971 | Vital Blue Vital Blue Vital Blue is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1971 and released on the Mainstream label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars.-Track listing:# "Booty Shakin'" - 5:20... |
Mainstream | |
| 1972 | Blues' Blues Blues' Blues Blues' Blues is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1972 and released on the Mainstream label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2½ stars stating "the music overall is listenable and funky, but not particularly memorable... |
Mainstream | |
| 1973 | The Last Tango = Blues The Last Tango = Blues The Last Tango = Blues is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1973 and released on the Mainstream label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 4 stars stating "The Last Tango = Blues translates the direct, soulful hard bop approach of Blue Mitchell's... |
Mainstream | |
| 1973 | Graffiti Blues Graffiti Blues Graffiti Blues is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1973 and released on the Mainstream label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Although not up to the same level as Blue Mitchell's earlier Blue Note dates, this accessible set... |
Mainstream | |
| 1974 | Many Shades of Blue | Mainstream | |
| 1975 | Stratosonic Nuances | RCA | |
| 1976 | Funktion Junction Funktion Junction Funktion Junction is a 1976 album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell. It was his last album released by RCA Records.-Track listing:#I'm In Heaven - 5:37 #AM-FM Blues - 4:21... |
RCA | |
| 1977 | African Violet African Violet (album) African Violet is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell which features arrangements by McKinley Mitchell recorded and released on the Impulse! label in 1977.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars.-Track listing:... |
ABC Impulse! | |
| 1977 | Mapenzi Mapenzi -Track listing:# "Mapenzi" - 5:15# "Rapture" - 5:08# "Habiba" - 10:19# "Blue Silver" - 4:58# "Everything's Changed" - 5:13# "Inner Voice" - 6:08# "Tres Senderos" - 5:29... |
Concord Jazz | |
| 1977 | Stablemates Stablemates (album) -Track listing:# "Stablemates" - 6:00# "A Portrait of Jennie" - 7:39# "There Will Never Be Another You" - 7:05# "Getting Sentimental Over Blue" - 7:01... |
Candid | |
| 1977 | Summer Soft Summer Soft Summer Soft is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1977 and released on the Impulse! label in 1978.-Reception:Allmusic awarded the album 2 stars with reviewer Scott Yanow stating "Although there are some fine players on this LP they are largely wasted on inferior material and... |
Impulse! | |
As sideman
| Year | Leader | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Lou Donaldson Lou Donaldson Lou Donaldson is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to playing the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker.His first recordings were... |
Quartet/Quintet/Sextet Quartet/Quintet/Sextet Quartet/Quintet/Sextet is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson featuring his earliest recordings as a leader on the Blue Note label performed by Donaldson's Quartet with Horace Silver, Gene Ramey and Art Taylor, his Quintet with Silver, Blue Mitchell, Art Blakey, and Percy Heath, and a Sextet... |
Blue Note |
| 1958 | Cannonball Adderley | Portrait of Cannonball Portrait of Cannonball Portrait of Cannonball is the ninth album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his first release on the Riverside label, featuring performances by Blue Mitchell, Bill Evans, Sam Jones, and Philly Joe Jones. The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album 4 stars and states "Everyone... |
Riverside |
| 1959 | Lou Donaldson | The Time is Right The Time Is Right The Time Is Right is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Horace Parlan, Laymon Jackson, Dave Bailey, and Ray Barretto with Sam Jones and Al Harewood replacing Jackson and Bailey on one track. The album was... |
Blue Note |
| 1959 | Jackie McLean Jackie McLean John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City.-Biography:McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra... |
Jackie's Bag Jackie's Bag Jackie's Bag is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1959 and 1960 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "the music on Jackie's Bag finds McLean in a staunchly hard bop mode, with occasional hints... |
Blue Note |
| 1959 | Horace Silver Horace Silver Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer.... |
Finger Poppin' Finger Poppin' Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1959 featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and Louis Hayes.... |
Blue Note |
| 1959 | Horace Silver | Blowin' the Blues Away Blowin' the Blues Away Blowin' the Blues Away is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, released on the Blue Note label in 1959 featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and Louis Hayes.... |
Blue Note |
| 1960 | Jimmy Smith Jimmy Smith (musician) Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B-3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument... |
Open House Open House (album) Open House is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1960, but not released on the Blue Note label until 1966... |
Blue Note |
| 1960 | Jimmy Smith | Plain Talk Plain Talk (album) Plain Talk is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1960 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1968... |
Blue Note |
| 1960 | Horace Silver | Horace-Scope Horace-Scope Horace-Scope is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1960 featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and Roy Brooks.... |
Blue Note |
| 1960 | Charlie Rouse Charlie Rouse Charlie Rouse was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist. His career is marked by the collaboration for more than ten years with Thelonious Monk.- Biography :... |
Takin' Care of Business | Jazzland |
| 1960 | Bobby Timmons Bobby Timmons Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons was an African American jazz pianist and composer.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is best known for his role as sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the composition of "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here", each of which are typical of his... |
Soul Time Soul Time Soul Time is a jazz album by Bobby Timmons on piano, Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Sam Jones on bass and Art Blakey on drums.After "This Here Is Bobby Timmons" , "Soul Time" was the second album recorded under Timmons' leadership. He handpicked an impressive cast of jazz musicians to complement his... |
Riverside |
| 1960 | Jackie McLean | Capuchin Swing Capuchin Swing Capuchin Swing is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1960 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "One of McLean's more underrated albums from a plethora of Blue Note releases, 1960's Capuchin... |
Blue Note |
| 1960 | Jackie McLean & Tina Brooks | Street Singer Street Singer Street Singer is a hard bop album jointly led by tenor Tina Brooks and alto Jackie McLean and taken from a session recorded on September 2, 1960, and released on the Blue Note label. It features performances by Brooks, McLean, Blue Mitchell, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers and Art Taylor... |
Blue Note |
| 1960 | Tina Brooks Tina Brooks Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and composer.-Early years:Harold Floyd Brooks was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and was the brother of David "Bubba" Brooks. The nickname "Tina", pronounced Teena, was a slight variation of "Teeny", a childhood moniker.... |
Back to the Tracks Back to the Tracks Back to the Tracks is an album by hard-bop tenor Tina Brooks recorded in 1960 and released posthumously. The tracks first appeared on a Mosaic 12" LP entitled The Complete Blue Note Recordings of The Tina Brooks Quintets. The album was originally intended as BLP 4052, but, for some reason, it was... |
Blue Note |
| 1961 | Junior Cook Junior Cook Herman "Junior" Cook was a hard bop tenor saxophone player.-Biography:Cook was born in Pensacola, Florida. After playing with Dizzy Gillespie in 1958, Cook gained some fame for his longtime membership in the Horace Silver Quintet ; when he and Blue Mitchell left that band, Cook played in... |
Junior's Cookin' | Jazzland |
| 1961 | Horace Silver | Doin' the Thing Doin' the Thing Doin' the Thing is a live album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1961 featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and Roy Brooks recorded at the Village Gate in New York City.... |
Blue Note |
| 1961 | Ray Charles Ray Charles Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records... |
My Kind of Jazz | ABC-Paramount |
| 1962 | Horace Silver | The Tokyo Blues The Tokyo Blues The Tokyo Blues is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1962, featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and John Harris Jr... |
Blue Note |
| 1962 | Tadd Dameron Tadd Dameron Tadley Ewing Peake "Tadd" Dameron was an American jazz composer, arranger and pianist. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon called Dameron the "romanticist" of the bop movement, while reviewer Scott Yanow writes that Dameron was the "definitive arranger/composer of the bop era".-Biography:Born in Cleveland,... |
The Magic Touch The Magic Touch The Magic Touch can refer to an R&B female vocal group from Long Island, which featured Pat Carty as lead vocalist [Diane Tyler would later take over as lead], Marsha Bivens and LaRonda Williams, that recorded the hit single Step Into My World on the Black Falcon label in April 1971, or a 1962... |
Riverside |
| 1963 | Stanley Turrentine Stanley Turrentine Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.-Biography:Turrentine was born in Pittsburgh's Hill District into a musical family... |
A Chip Off the Old Block A Chip Off the Old Block (album) A Chip off the Old Block is an album of tunes associated with Count Basie by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Blue Mitchell, Earl May, and Al Harewood with Tom McIntosh and Charles Davis added on two tracks.-... |
Blue Note |
| 1963 | Harold Vick Harold Vick Harold Vick was an American hard bop and soul jazz saxophonist and flautist born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.... |
Steppin' Out! Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick album) Steppin' Out! is the debut album by American saxophonist Harold Vick recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "There are no real surprises, but no disappointments either on what would be Harold Vick's... |
Blue Note |
| 1963 | Horace Silver | Silver's Serenade Silver's Serenade Silver's Serenade is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1963 featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and Roy Brooks... |
Blue Note |
| 1963 | Freddie Roach Freddie Roach (organist) See Freddie Roach for the boxer.Freddie Roach is a soul jazz Hammond B3 organist born in the Bronx, New York. He was one of a handful of legendary jazz organists that made history in the 1960s, the golden era of the Hammond organ... |
Good Move! Good Move! Good Move! is the third album by American organist Freddie Roach recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Laid-back and loosely swinging, Good Move captures organist Freddie Roach near the... |
Blue Note |
| 1964 | Horace Silver | Song For My Father Song for My Father Song for My Father is a 1965 album by The Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label in 1965. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares Silva, to whom the title song was dedicated... |
Blue Note |
| 1964 | Stanley Turrentine | In Memory Of In Memory Of (album) In Memory Of is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, recorded for the Blue Note label in 1964 but not released until the 1980s, and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, Curtis Fuller, Herbie Hancock, Bob Cranshaw, and Otis Finch.... |
Blue Note |
| 1965 | Big John Patton John Patton (musician) John Patton , sometimes nicknamed Big John Patton, was a hard bop and soul jazz organist.... |
Oh Baby! Oh Baby! (album) Oh Baby! is an album by American organist Big John Patton recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael Erlewine awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Although a little on the light side, thanks to Patton and Green, the groove does go down".-Track... |
Blue Note |
| 1965 | George Benson George Benson George Benson is a ten Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist.... |
Benson Burner | Columbia |
| 1966 | Stanley Turrentine | Rough 'n' Tumble Rough 'n' Tumble Rough 'n' Tumble is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, James Spaulding, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Grant Green, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker with arrangements by Duke Pearson.-Reception:The... |
Blue Note |
| 1966 | Stanley Turrentine | The Spoiler The Spoiler (album) The Spoiler is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, James Spaulding, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Julian Priester, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker with arrangements by Duke Pearson.-Reception:The... |
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| 1967 | Lou Donaldson | Mr. Shing-A-Ling Mr. Shing-A-Ling Mr. Shing-A-Ling is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label in 1967 and featuring Donaldson with Blue Mitchell , Lonnie Smith, Jimmy Ponder, and Leo Morris.... |
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| 1967 | Stanley Turrentine | A Bluish Bag A Bluish Bag A Bluish Bag is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine consisting of two sessions recorded for the Blue Note label in 1967 and arranged by Duke Pearson, the first featuing Donald Byrd and the second featuring McCoy Tyner.- Reception :... |
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| 1967 | Hank Mobley Hank Mobley Henry Mobley was an American hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz... |
Hi Voltage Hi Voltage - Track listing :# "High Voltage" - 8:09# "Two and One" - 6:09# "No More Goodbyes" - 5:41# "Advance Notion" - 5:57# "Bossa De Luxe" - 7:31# "Flirty Gerty" - 7:00*Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, October 9, 1967- Personnel :... |
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| 1967 | Stanley Turrentine | The Return of the Prodigal Son The Return of the Prodigal Son (album) The Return of the Prodigal Son is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine consisting of two sessions recorded for the Blue Note label in 1967 and arranged by Duke Pearson featuring McCoy Tyner-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael G... |
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| 1968 | Lou Donaldson | Midnight Creeper Midnight Creeper Midnight Creeper is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label in 1968 and featuring Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Lonnie Smith, George Benson, and Leo Morris.... |
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| 1968 | Lou Donaldson | Say It Loud! Say It Loud! Say It Loud! is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label in 1968 and featuring Donaldson with Blue Mitchell , Charles Earland, Jimmy Ponder, and Leo Morris.... |
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| 1969 | Jimmy McGriff Jimmy McGriff James Harrell McGriff was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ.-Early years and influences:... |
Electric Funk Electric Funk Electric Funk is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in 1969 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:... |
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| 1970 | Lou Donaldson | Everything I Play is Funky Everything I Play Is Funky Everything I Play is Funky is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label featuring Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Lonnie Smith, Melvin Sparks, Jimmy Lewis and Leo Morris and two tracks with Ed Williams and Charles Earland replacing Mitchell & Smith.The album was... |
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| 1970 | Grant Green Grant Green Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer.... |
Green Is Beautiful Green Is Beautiful Green Is Beautiful is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:... |
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| 1970 | Lou Donaldson | Pretty Things Pretty Things (album) Pretty Things is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label featuring Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Leon Spencer, Ted Dunbar, and Idris Muhammad and one track with Lonnie Smith and Melvin Sparks replacing Spencer & Dunbar and Jimmy Lewis added.The album was awarded... |
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| 1971 | Stanley Turrentine | The Sugar Man The Sugar Man The Sugar Man is an album by Stanley Turrentine. The recording is a compilation of four separate dates, each with different conductors, arrangers and other personnel... |
CTI CTI Records CTI Records was a jazz record label founded in 1967 by producer/A&R manager Creed Taylor. Initially, CTI was a subsidiary of A&M Records, but the label went independent in 1970... |
| 1972 | John Mayall John Mayall John Mayall, OBE is an English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, whose musical career spans over fifty years... |
Jazz Blues Fusion Jazz Blues Fusion (album) Jazz Blues Fusion is a Live album by John Mayall, the first side is from a gig in Boston on 18th November 1971, and the second side was selected from two concerts at Hunter College, New York on 3rd and 4th December 1971.-Track listing:... |
Polydor Polydor Records Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone... |
| 1972 | Papa John Creach Papa John Creach Papa John Creach played for Jefferson Airplane , Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Starship - The Next Generation, the San Francisco All-Stars , The Dinosaurs , and Steve Taylor... |
Filthy! Filthy! Filthy! is Papa John Creach's second solo album and the first with his band Zulu. The guitarist of Zulu would later be known as Keb' Mo'. The band Hot Tuna also makes an appearance on the album on the track "Walking the Tou Tou," written by Jorma Kaukonen.... |
Grunt Grunt Records Grunt Records is a vanity label founded in 1971 by Jefferson Airplane and distributed by RCA Records. Initially created to sign local Bay Area acts, the label later was used only for Jefferson Starship and Hot Tuna releases. The label ended use in 1987 after Grace Slick left... |
| 1973 | John Mayall | Moving On | Polydor |
| 1973 | John Mayall | Ten Years Are Gone Ten Years Are Gone Ten Years Are Gone is a double album by John Mayall, recorded at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles and released in 1973. Like its predecessors Jazz Blues Fusion and Moving On, it featured Freddy Robinson on guitar and Blue Mitchell on trumpet.... |
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| 1975 | Bobby Hutcherson Bobby Hutcherson Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern... |
Montara Montara (album) Montara is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson recorded in 1975 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Montara is one of the great feel-good jazz albums of the 1970s, one of the great Latin jazz albums... |
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| 1976 | Al Cohn Al Cohn Al Cohn was an American jazz saxophonist and arranger and composer.-Biography:Alvin Gilbert Cohn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was initially known in the 1940s for playing in Woody Herman's Second Herd as one of the Four Brothers, along with Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, and Serge Chaloff... , Dexter Gordon Dexter Gordon Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone... |
True Blue True Blue (jazz album) True Blue is a jazz album by saxophonist Dexter Gordon and saxophonist Al Cohn, recorded in 1976 for Xanadu Records.- Personnel :* Al Cohn & Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone* Blue Mitchell & Sam Noto - trumpet* Barry Harris piano... |
Xanadu Records Xanadu Records Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music.-Discography:... |
| 1976 | Al Cohn Al Cohn Al Cohn was an American jazz saxophonist and arranger and composer.-Biography:Alvin Gilbert Cohn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was initially known in the 1940s for playing in Woody Herman's Second Herd as one of the Four Brothers, along with Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, and Serge Chaloff... , Dexter Gordon Dexter Gordon Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone... |
Silver Blue Silver Blue (album) Silver Blue is a jazz album by saxophonists Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, recorded in 1976 for Xanadu Records.- Personnel :* Al Cohn & Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone* Blue Mitchell & Sam Noto - trumpet* Barry Harris piano* Sam Jones - bass guitar... |
Xanadu Records Xanadu Records Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music.-Discography:... |
| 1978 | Philly Joe Jones Philly Joe Jones Joseph Rudolph Jones was a Philadelphia-born United States jazz drummer, known as the drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet.Philly Joe Jones was often confused with another influential jazz drummer, Jo Jones... |
Drum Song | Galaxy Records Galaxy Records Galaxy Records was a subsidiary of Fantasy Records. It was established in 1951 and has been reactivated several times. Its first incarnation was as a 1950s jazz label. It was revived again in 1961 as a gospel and R&B label. It was last active from 1978 until the mid eighties.-Circa late... |