Artist: Blue Mitchell
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
The Thing to Do
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD4
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD3
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD2
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
The Complete Blue Note Session 1963-1967 CD1
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
The Cup Bearers
Year: 1962
Tracks: 7
Owner of a place, lightly swing, middling plain-wrapped shadow that suit powerful in with the Blue Promissory note label's heavy bop ethos of the 1960s, Blue air Billy Mitchell tends to be unnoted today perhaps because he never in truth stood tabu vividly from the crowd, despite his undeniable talent. Afterward eruditeness the trumpet in senior high schoolhouse -- where he got his cognomen -- he started touring in the early '50s with the R&B bands of Paul Ted Williams, Earl Bostic and Spue Thomas Willis earlier reversive to Miami and jazz. In that location, he attracted the attention of Cannonball Adderley, with whom he recorded for Riverside in 1958. That yr, he coupled the Horace Flatware Quintette, with whom he played and recorded until the band's disintegration in March 1964, polishing his hard fed Office of Prisons skills. During his Silver medal days, Mitchell worked with tenor Junior Ready, bassist Cistron Elizabeth Taylor, drummer Roy Van Wyck Brooks and assorted pianists as a divide unit of measurement and continued transcription as a drawing card for Riverbank. When Silver disbanded, Mitchell's spinoff v carried on with Al Foster alternate Brooks and a brigham Young hereafter lead named Skirt Corea in the forte-piano electric chair. This radical, with respective force changes, continued until 1969, recording a string of albums for Blue Annotation. Likely cognisant that opportunities for playing straight-ahead jazz were dwindling, Mitchell became a prolific pop and soulfulness sessionman in the late '60s, and he toured with Beam Charles from 1969 to 1971 and blues/rock guitar player Trick Mayall in 1971-73. Having settled in Los Angeles, he besides played big band dates with Louie Bellson, Visor Holman and Poster Berry; made a number of blue funk and pop/jazz LPs in the late '70s; served as school principal sum soloist for Tony Bennett and Lena River Horne; and unbroken his hand in intemperate bebop by acting with Harold Farming in a v. He continued to mercenary in this many-sided fashion until his previous end from cancer at age 49.
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