Blue Mitchell

Blue Mitchell
Blue Mitchell
	Mitchell performing in Amsterdam, 1959
Background information
Birth name	Richard Allen Mitchell
Born	March 13, 1930; Miami, Florida, U.S.
Died	May 21, 1979 (aged 49); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Jazz; soul jazz;
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Trumpet
Years active	1952 – 1979
Labels	Riverside; Blue Note; Mainstream; RCA;

Richard Allen "Blue" Mitchell (March 13, 1930 – May 21, 1979)^[1] was an American trumpeter and composer who worked in jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock and funk. He recorded albums as leader and sideman for Riverside, Mainstream Records, and Blue Note.^[2]

Early life

Mitchell was born and raised in Miami, Florida, United States.^[2] He began playing trumpet in high school, with the nickname "Blue".^[2]

Career

After high school, he played in the rhythm & blues ensembles of Paul Williams, Earl Bostic, and Chuck Willis.^[2] He returned to Miami and was heard by Cannonball Adderley, with whom he recorded for Riverside Records in New York in 1958.^[2]

Mitchell then joined the Horace Silver Quintet,^[2] 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 which 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.^[2] This group produced a number of records for Blue Note.^[2] It disbanded in 1969, after which Mitchell joined and toured with Ray Charles until 1971.^[2]

From 1971 to 1973 Mitchell performed with John Mayall, appearing on Jazz Blues Fusion and subsequent albums.^[2] From the mid-1970s, 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 the principal soloist for Tony Bennett and Lena Horne.^[2] Other band leaders Mitchell recorded with are Lou Donaldson, Grant Green, Philly Joe Jones, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Johnny Griffin, Al Cohn, Dexter Gordon, and Jimmy Smith.

Death

Mitchell performed with the Harold Land quintet^[2] until he died from cancer on May 21, 1979, in Los Angeles, California, aged 49.^[3]

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Recording date	Title	Label	Year released	Notes
1958-07	Big 6	Riverside	1958
1958-10	Get Those Elephants Out'a Here	MetroJazz	1959	with Red Mitchell, Whitey Mitchell and André Previn
1959-01	Out of the Blue	Riverside	1959
1959-09	Blue Soul	Riverside	1959
1960-08	Blue's Moods	Riverside	1960
1960-12, 1961-03	Smooth as the Wind	Riverside	1961
1962-03	A Sure Thing	Riverside	1962
1962-08	The Cup Bearers	Riverside	1962
1963-08	Step Lightly	Blue Note	1980
1964-07	The Thing to Do	Blue Note	1965
1965-07	Down with It!	Blue Note	1966
1966-01	Bring It Home to Me	Blue Note	1967
1966-11	Boss Horn	Blue Note	1967
1967-11	Heads Up!	Blue Note	1968
1968-09	Collision in Black	Blue Note	1969
1969-05	Bantu Village	Blue Note	1969
1971-03	Blue Mitchell (aka Soul Village)	Mainstream	1971
1971-06	Vital Blue	Mainstream	1971
1972	Blues' Blues	Mainstream	1972
1972	The Last Tango = Blues	Mainstream	1973
1973-03-01	Graffiti Blues	Mainstream	1973
1974	Many Shades of Blue	Mainstream	1974
1975	Stratosonic Nuances	RCA	1975
1976	Funktion Junction	RCA	1976
1977-04-14	Mapenzi	Concord Jazz	1977	with Harold Land
1977-04-28, -29	Stablemates	Candid	1977
1977	African Violet	Impulse!	1978
1977	Summer Soft	Impulse!	1978

As sideman

Year recorded	Leader	Title	Label	Year released
1952–54	Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet	Blue Note	1957
1958	Cannonball Adderley	Portrait of Cannonball	Riverside	1958
1959	Horace Silver	Finger Poppin'	Blue Note	1959
1959	Philly Joe Jones	Drums Around the World	Riverside	1959
1959	Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away	Blue Note	1959
1959	Philly Joe Jones	Showcase	Riverside	1959
1959	Lou Donaldson	The Time Is Right	Blue Note	1960
1959–60	Jackie McLean	Jackie's Bag	Blue Note	1961
1960	Sam Jones	The Soul Society	Riverside	1960
1960	Jimmy Smith	Open House	Blue Note	1968
1960	Jimmy Smith	Plain Talk	Blue Note	1968
1960	Jackie McLean	Capuchin Swing	Blue Note	1960
1960	Charlie Rouse	Takin' Care of Business	Jazzland	1960
1960	Horace Silver	Horace-Scope	Blue Note	1960
1960	Bobby Timmons	Soul Time	Riverside	1960
1960	Jackie McLean & Tina Brooks	Street Singer	Blue Note	1980
1960	Tina Brooks	Back to the Tracks	Blue Note	1998
1960	Sonny Red	Breezing	Jazzland	1961
1961	Sam Jones	The Chant	Riverside	1961
1961	Philly Joe Jones and Elvin Jones	Together!	Atlantic	1961
1961	Horace Silver	Doin' the Thing	Blue Note	1961
1961	Elmo Hope	Homecoming!	Riverside	1961
1961	Junior Cook	Junior's Cookin'	Jazzland	1961
1961	Sonny Red	Images	Jazzland	1962
1961	Les McCann	Les McCann Ltd. in New York	Pacific Jazz	1962
1962	Red Garland	Red's Good Groove	Jazzland	1962
1962	Horace Silver	The Tokyo Blues	Blue Note	1962
1962	Sonny Stitt	Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass	Atlantic	1963
1962	Sam Jones	Down Home	Riverside	1962
1963	Harold Vick	Steppin' Out!	Blue Note	1963
1963	Horace Silver	Silver's Serenade	Blue Note	1963
1963	Stanley Turrentine	A Chip Off the Old Block	Blue Note	1964
1963	Freddie Roach	Good Move!	Blue Note	1963
1963–64	Horace Silver	Song for My Father	Blue Note	1965
1964	Stanley Turrentine	In Memory Of	Blue Note	1979
1965	Big John Patton	Oh Baby!	Blue Note	1965
1965	George Benson	Benson Burner	Columbia	1967
1966	Joe Zawinul	Money in the Pocket	Atlantic	1966
1966	Harold Vick	The Caribbean Suite	RCA Victor	1967
1966	Stanley Turrentine	Rough 'n' Tumble	Blue Note	1966
1966	Richard "Groove" Holmes	Soul Mist!	Prestige	1970
1966	Stanley Turrentine	The Spoiler	Blue Note	1967
1967	Stanley Turrentine	A Bluish Bag	Blue Note	2007
1967	Stanley Turrentine	The Return of the Prodigal Son	Blue Note	2008
1967	Hank Mobley	Hi Voltage	Blue Note	1968
1967	Lou Donaldson	Mr. Shing-A-Ling	Blue Note	1968
1968	Lou Donaldson	Midnight Creeper	Blue Note	1968
1968	Yusef Lateef	The Blue Yusef Lateef	Atlantic	1968
1968	Cedar Walton	Spectrum	Prestige	1968
1968	Don Patterson	Opus De Don	Prestige	1968
1968	Jimmy McGriff	The Worm	Solid State	1968
1968	Lou Donaldson	Say It Loud!	Blue Note	1969
1968	Jimmy McGriff	Step 1	Solid State	1969
1968	Harold Mabern	Rakin' and Scrapin'	Prestige	1969
1969	Cedar Walton	The Electric Boogaloo Song	Prestige	1969
1969	Charles Kynard	The Soul Brotherhood	Prestige	1969
1969	Jimmy McGriff	A Thing to Come By	Solid State	1969
1969	Jimmy McGriff	Electric Funk	Blue Note	1970
1969–70	Lou Donaldson	Everything I Play Is Funky	Blue Note	1970
1970	Ray Charles	My Kind of Jazz	Tangerine	1970
1970	Grant Green	Green Is Beautiful	Blue Note	1970
1970	Lou Donaldson	Pretty Things	Blue Note	1970
1970	David "Fathead" Newman	Captain Buckles	Cotillion	1971
1971	Stanley Turrentine	The Sugar Man	CTI	1975
1971	John Mayall	Jazz Blues Fusion	Polydor	1972
1972	Papa John Creach	Filthy!	Grunt	1972
1972	John Mayall	Moving On	Polydor	1972
1973?	John Mayall	Ten Years Are Gone	Polydor	1973
1974	Louie Bellson	Louie Rides Again!	Percussion Power	1974
1975	Louis Bellson	The Louis Bellson Explosion	Pablo	1975
1975	Bobby Hutcherson	Montara	Blue Note	1975
1976	Carmen McRae	Can't Hide Love	Blue Note	1976
1976	Cedar Walton	Beyond Mobius	RCA	1976
1976	Al Cohn, Dexter Gordon	True Blue	Xanadu	1976
1976	Al Cohn, Dexter Gordon	Silver Blue	Xanadu	1976
1976	Dolo Coker	Dolo!	Xanadu	1977
1976	Dolo Coker	California Hard	Xanadu	1977
1974–77	Sam Jones	Something in Common	Muse	1977
1977	Sam Jones	Changes & Things	Xanadu	1978
1978	Philly Joe Jones	Advance!	Galaxy	1979
1978	Philly Joe Jones	Drum Song	Galaxy	1985

References

^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 286. ISBN 0-85112-580-8.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Blue Mitchell | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
^ Contemporary Black Biography, Volume 126. Gale Cengage Learning. 2015. pp. 115–116. ISBN 978-1-57302-425-9.

External links

Blue Mitchell site
Blue Mitchell leader discography at jazzdiscography.com

[LarkinJazz-1] Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 286. ISBN 0-85112-580-8.

[ALLMUSIC-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Blue Mitchell | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved July 30, 2021.

[3] Contemporary Black Biography, Volume 126. Gale Cengage Learning. 2015. pp. 115–116. ISBN 978-1-57302-425-9.

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Blue Mitchell

Early life

Career

Death

Discography

As leader/co-leader

As sideman

References

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