Artist: Blue Mitchell
Label: Blue Note
SKU: BLUN140302
Barcode: 602445395774
Genre: Audiophile Jazz
No of Discs: 1 Disc
Release: 02/02/2024
Miami-born trumpeter Blue Mitchell had a soulful, swinging style that was equally at home in jazz, R&B, and funk settings. Mitchell been a sideman on Blue Note sessions led by Lou Donaldson, Jimmy Smith, Jackie McLean and appeared on numerous classics as a member of the Horace Silver Quintet before he began recording his own Blue Note leader albums. For his 1965 date Down With It! The trumpeter reconvened the same dynamic quintet that had recorded his label debut The Thing To Do the year before including his Silver bandmates Junior Cook on tenor saxophone and Gene Taylor on bass along with a 24-year-old Chick Corea on piano and 22-year-old Al Foster on drums. The band comes flying out of the gate on the boogaloo grooved opener “Hi-Heel Sneakers” with other highlights of the set including the high-spirited “March On Selma” and the gorgeous ballad “Alone, Alone, Alone.”

A1 Hi-Heel Sneakers
Written-By – Higginbotham*
A2 Perception
Written-By – Mitchell*, Corea*
A3 Alone, Alone And Alone
Written-By – Hino*
B1 March On Selma
Written-By – Blue Mitchell
B2 One Shirt
Written-By – William Boone
B3 Samba De Stacy
Written-By – William Boone
Bass – Gene Taylor
Drums – Aloysius Foster*
Lacquer Cut By – KPG*
Mastered By [LP Mastering By] – Kevin Gray
Photography By – Francis Wolff
Photography By [Cover Photo By], Cover [Cover Photo By], Design – Reid Miles
Piano – Chick Corea
Producer [Original Session Produced By] – Alfred Lion
Recorded By [Recording By] – Rudy Van Gelder
Sleeve Notes – Phyl Garland
Supervised By [LP Supervision By] – Joe Harley
Tenor Saxophone – Junior Cook
Trumpet – Blue Mitchell