Blue Mitchell

Blue Mitchell
Background information
Birth name	Richard Allen Mitchell
Also known as	Blue Mitchell
Born	(1930-03-13)March 13, 1930 Miami, Florida, U.S.
Died	May 21, 1979(1979-05-21) (aged 49) Los Angeles, California
Genres	Jazz, soul jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Trumpet
Years active	1952 – 1979
Labels	Riverside Blue Note Mainstream RCA
Associated acts	Cannonball Adderley, Earl Bostic, Horace Silver, Paul Williams, Chuck Willis, Charlie Rouse

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

Contents

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  1 Biography
  


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  2 Discography
  
  
  
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    2.1 As leader/co-leader
    
  
  
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    2.2 As sideman
    
  
  
  
  


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  3 References
  


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  4 External links
  

Biography

Mitchell was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He began playing trumpet in high school, where he acquired his nickname, Blue.^[1]

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 which he 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. It disbanded in 1969, after which Mitchell joined and toured with Ray Charles until 1971.

From 1971 to 1973 Mitchell performed with John Mayall, appearing on Jazz Blues Fusion and subsequent albums. 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, at the age of 49.^[2]

Discography

As leader/co-leader

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

As sideman

Year	Leader	Title	Label
1952	Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet	Blue Note
1958	Cannonball Adderley	Portrait of Cannonball	Riverside
1959	Philly Joe Jones	Drums Around the World	Riverside
1959	Lou Donaldson	The Time Is Right	Blue Note
1959	Jackie McLean	Jackie's Bag	Blue Note
1959	Horace Silver	Finger Poppin'	Blue Note
1959	Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away	Blue Note
1959	Philly Joe Jones	Showcase	Riverside
1960	Jimmy Smith	Open House	Blue Note
1960	Jimmy Smith	Plain Talk	Blue Note
1960	Horace Silver	Horace-Scope	Blue Note
1960	Charlie Rouse	Takin' Care of Business	Jazzland
1960	Sam Jones	The Soul Society	Riverside
1960	Bobby Timmons	Soul Time	Riverside
1960	Jackie McLean	Capuchin Swing	Blue Note
1960	Jackie McLean & Tina Brooks	Street Singer	Blue Note
1960	Tina Brooks	Back to the Tracks	Blue Note
1960	Sonny Red	Breezing	Jazzland
1961	Junior Cook	Junior's Cookin'	Jazzland
1961	Elmo Hope	Homecoming!	Riverside
1961	Sam Jones	The Chant	Riverside
1961	Philly Joe Jones and Elvin Jones	Together!	Atlantic
1961	Horace Silver	Doin' the Thing	Blue Note
1961	Les McCann	Les McCann Ltd. in New York	Pacific Jazz
1962	Horace Silver	The Tokyo Blues	Blue Note
1962	Sonny Red	Images	Jazzland
1962	Red Garland	Red's Good Groove	Jazzland
1962	Sonny Stitt	Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass	Atlantic
1962	Sam Jones	Down Home	Riverside
1963	Stanley Turrentine	A Chip Off the Old Block	Blue Note
1963	Harold Vick	Steppin' Out!	Blue Note
1963	Horace Silver	Silver's Serenade	Blue Note
1963	Freddie Roach	Good Move!	Blue Note
1964	Horace Silver	Song for My Father	Blue Note
1964	Stanley Turrentine	In Memory Of	Blue Note
1965	Big John Patton	Oh Baby!	Blue Note
1965	George Benson	Benson Burner	Columbia
1966	Stanley Turrentine	Rough 'n' Tumble	Blue Note
1966	Harold Vick	The Caribbean Suite	RCA Victor
1966	Richard "Groove" Holmes	Soul Mist!	Prestige
1966	Joe Zawinul	Money in the Pocket	Atlantic
1966	Stanley Turrentine	The Spoiler	Blue Note
1967	Lou Donaldson	Mr. Shing-A-Ling	Blue Note
1967	Stanley Turrentine	A Bluish Bag	Blue Note
1967	Hank Mobley	Hi Voltage	Blue Note
1967	Stanley Turrentine	The Return of the Prodigal Son	Blue Note
1968	Lou Donaldson	Midnight Creeper	Blue Note
1968	Cedar Walton	Spectrum	Prestige
1968	Jimmy McGriff	The Worm	Solid State
1968	Harold Mabern	Rakin' and Scrapin'	Prestige
1968	Don Patterson	Opus De Don	Prestige
1968	Yusef Lateef	The Blue Yusef Lateef	Atlantic
1968	Lou Donaldson	Say It Loud!	Blue Note
1968	Jimmy McGriff	Step 1	Solid State
1969	Jimmy McGriff	A Thing to Come By	Solid State
1969	Cedar Walton	The Electric Boogaloo Song	Prestige
1969	Charles Kynard	The Soul Brotherhood	Prestige
1969	Jimmy McGriff	Electric Funk	Blue Note
1970	Ray Charles	My Kind of Jazz	Tangerine
1970	Lou Donaldson	Everything I Play Is Funky	Blue Note
1970	Grant Green	Green Is Beautiful	Blue Note
1970	Lou Donaldson	Pretty Things	Blue Note
1971	David "Fathead" Newman	Captain Buckles	Cotillion
1971	Stanley Turrentine	The Sugar Man	CTI
1972	John Mayall	Jazz Blues Fusion	Polydor
1972	Papa John Creach	Filthy!	Grunt
1973	John Mayall	Moving On	Polydor
1973	John Mayall	Ten Years Are Gone	Polydor
1974	Louie Bellson	150 MPH	Concord
1975	Bobby Hutcherson	Montara	Blue Note
1976	Al Cohn, Dexter Gordon	True Blue	Xanadu
1976	Al Cohn, Dexter Gordon	Silver Blue	Xanadu
1976	Dolo Coker	Dolo!	Xanadu
1976	Dolo Coker	California Hard	Xanadu
1976	Carmen McRae	Can't Hide Love	Blue Note
1976	Cedar Walton	Beyond Mobius	RCA
1977	Sam Jones	Changes & Things	Xanadu
1977	Sam Jones	Something in Common	Muse
1978	Philly Joe Jones	Advance!	Galaxy
1978	Philly Joe Jones	Drum Song	Galaxy

References

1. 
   ^ ^ab Allmusic Biography
   


2. 
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External links

• Blue Mitchell site


• Blue Mitchell leader discography

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