Blue Mitchell: Down With It! LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 2LP this exuberant live date featured

this exuberant live date featured Silver's great quintet with trumpeter Blue Mitchell

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Blue Mitchell: Down With It! LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 2LP this exuberant live date featuredBlue Note, 1965 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