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Blue Mitchell

Index Blue Mitchell

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]

180 relations: A Bluish Bag, A Chip Off the Old Block (album), A Sure Thing, A Thing to Come By, ABC Records, Advance!, African Violet (album), Al Cohn, Al Foster, André Previn, Back to the Tracks, Bantu Village, Beyond Mobius, Big 6 (album), Bill Berry (trumpeter), Bill Holman (musician), Blowin' the Blues Away, Blue Mitchell (album), Blue Note Records, Blue Soul, Blue's Moods, Blues' Blues, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Timmons, Boss Horn, Breezing (album), Bring It Home to Me, California Hard, Can't Hide Love (album), Cannonball Adderley, Captain Buckles, Capuchin Swing, Carmen McRae, Cedar Walton, Changes & Things, Charles Kynard, Charlie Rouse, Chick Corea, Chuck Willis, Collision in Black, Cotillion Records, CTI Records, David "Fathead" Newman, Dexter Gordon, Doin' the Thing, Dolo Coker, Dolo!, Don Patterson (organist), Down Home (Sam Jones album), Down with It!, ..., Drum Song, Drums Around the World, Earl Bostic, Electric Funk, Elmo Hope, Elvin Jones, Everything I Play Is Funky, Filthy!, Finger Poppin', Freddie Roach (organist), Funk, Funktion Junction, Galaxy Records, Gene Taylor (bassist), George Benson, Get Those Elephants Out'a Here, Good Move!, Graffiti Blues, Grant Green, Green Is Beautiful, Grunt Records, Hank Mobley, Harold Land, Harold Mabern, Harold Vick, Heads Up! (album), Hi Voltage, Homecoming!, Horace Silver, Horace-Scope, Images (Sonny Red album), In Memory Of (Stanley Turrentine album), Jackie McLean, Jackie's Bag, Jazz, Jazz Blues Fusion (album), Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy Smith (musician), Joe Zawinul, John Mayall, John Patton (musician), Johnny Griffin, Junior Cook, Junior's Cookin', Lena Horne, Les McCann, Les McCann Ltd. in New York, Lou Donaldson, Louie Bellson, Mainstream Records, Many Shades of Blue, Mapenzi, Miami, Midnight Creeper, Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul album), Montara (album), Mr. Shing-A-Ling, Oh Baby! (Big John Patton album), Open House (album), Opus De Don, Out of the Blue (Blue Mitchell album), Papa John Creach, Paul Williams (saxophonist), Philly Joe Jones, Plain Talk (album), Polydor Records, Portrait of Cannonball, Pretty Things (album), Quartet/Quintet/Sextet, Rakin' and Scrapin', Ray Charles, RCA Records, Red Garland, Red Mitchell, Red's Good Groove, Rhythm and blues, Richard Holmes (organist), Riverside Records, Rough 'n' Tumble, Roy Brooks, Sam Jones (musician), Say It Loud!, Showcase (Philly Joe Jones album), Silver Blue (album), Silver's Serenade, Smooth as the Wind, Something in Common (Sam Jones album), Song for My Father (album), Sonny Red, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass, Soul jazz, Soul Mist!, Soul Time, Spectrum (Cedar Walton album), Stablemates (album), Stanley Turrentine, Step 1 (album), Step Lightly, Steppin' Out!, Stratosonic Nuances, Street Singer, Summer Soft, Tadd Dameron, Takin' Care of Business (album), Ten Years Are Gone, The Blue Yusef Lateef, The Caribbean Suite, The Chant (album), The Cup Bearers, The Electric Boogaloo Song, The Last Tango = Blues, The Magic Touch (Tadd Dameron album), The Return of the Prodigal Son (album), The Soul Brotherhood, The Soul Society, The Spoiler (album), The Sugar Man, The Thing to Do (album), The Time Is Right, The Tokyo Blues, The Worm (album), Tina Brooks, Together! (Elvin Jones and Philly Joe Jones album), Tony Bennett, True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon album), Vital Blue, Whitey Mitchell, Xanadu Records, Yusef Lateef. Expand index (130 more) »

A Bluish Bag

A Bluish Bag is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine consisting of two sessions recorded for the Blue Note label in 1967 and arranged by Duke Pearson, the first featuring Donald Byrd and the second McCoy Tyner, among others.

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A Chip Off the Old Block (album)

A Chip Off the Old Block is the ninth album by American jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.

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A Sure Thing

A Sure Thing is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell with orchestra recorded in late 1962 and released on the Riverside label.

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A Thing to Come By

A Thing to Come By is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in 1969 and originally released on the Solid State label.

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ABC Records

ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955.

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Advance!

Advance! is an album by drummer Philly Joe Jones which was recorded in 1978 and released on the Galaxy in the following year.

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African Violet (album)

African Violet is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell which features arrangements by McKinley Mitchell recorded and released on the Impulse! label in 1977.

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Al Cohn

Al Cohn (November 24, 1925 – February 15, 1988) was an American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer.

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Al Foster

Al Foster (born January 18, 1944) is an American jazz drummer.

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André Previn

André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer.

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Back to the Tracks

Back to the Tracks is a hard bop album by tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks recorded in 1960 and released posthumously.

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Bantu Village

Bantu Village is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell which features arrangements by Monk Higgins recorded and released on the Blue Note label in 1969.

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Beyond Mobius

Beyond Mobius is an album by pianist Cedar Walton recorded in 1976 and released on the RCA label.

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Big 6 (album)

Big 6 is the debut album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1958 and released on the Riverside label.

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Bill Berry (trumpeter)

William Richard Berry (September 14, 1930 – November 13, 2002) was an American jazz trumpeter best known for playing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the early 1960s and for leading his own big band.

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Bill Holman (musician)

Willis Leonard Holman (born May 21, 1927), better known as Bill Holman, is an American composer/arranger, conductor, saxophonist, and songwriter working primarily in the jazz and pop idioms.

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Blowin' the Blues Away

Blowin' the Blues Away is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, released on the Blue Note label in 1959 featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and Louis Hayes.

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Blue Mitchell (album)

Blue Mitchell (also known as Soul Village) is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1971 and released on the Mainstream label.

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Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records.

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Blue Soul

Blue Soul is the third album led by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded and released in 1959 on the Riverside label.

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Blue's Moods

Blue's Moods is the third album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label.

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Blues' Blues

Blues' Blues is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1972 and released on the Mainstream label.

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Bobby Hutcherson

Robert Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player.

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Bobby Timmons

Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons (December 19, 1935 – March 1, 1974) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Boss Horn

Boss Horn is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Breezing (album)

Breezing is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Red recorded in late 1960 and released on the Jazzland label.

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Bring It Home to Me

Bring It Home to Me is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label.

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California Hard

California Hard is a jazz album by pianist and composer Dolo Coker, recorded in 1976.

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Can't Hide Love (album)

Can't Hide Love is a 1976 album by Carmen McRae, this was her third and last album to be released on Blue Note Records.

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Cannonball Adderley

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Captain Buckles

Captain Buckles is an album by saxophonist David Newman featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the Cotillion label.

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Capuchin Swing

Capuchin Swing is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1960 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Carmen McRae

Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1922 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer.

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Cedar Walton

Cedar Anthony Walton, Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist.

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Changes & Things

Changes & Things is an album by bassist and cellist Sam Jones which was recorded in 1977 and released on the Xanadu label.

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Charles Kynard

Charles Kynard (20 February 1933 – 8 July 1979) was an American soul jazz/acid jazz organist born in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Charlie Rouse

Charlie Rouse (April 6, 1924 – November 30, 1988) was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist.

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Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer.

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Chuck Willis

Harold "Chuck" Willis (January 31, 1926 – April 10, 1958) was an American blues, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll singer and songwriter.

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Collision in Black

Collision in Black is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell which features compositions and arrangements by Monk Higgins recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label in 1969.

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Cotillion Records

Cotillion Records was a subsidiary of Atlantic Records (from 1971 part of WEA) and was active from 1968 through 1985.

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CTI Records

CTI Records (Creed Taylor Incorporated) is a jazz record label founded in 1967 by producer/A&R manager Creed Taylor.

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David "Fathead" Newman

David "Fathead" Newman (February 24, 1933 – January 20, 2009) was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist who made numerous recordings as a session musician and leader, but is best known for his work as a sideman on seminal 1950s and early 1960s recordings by singer-pianist Ray Charles.

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Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Doin' the Thing

Doin' the Thing is a live album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1961 featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and Roy Brooks recorded at the Village Gate in New York City.

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Dolo Coker

Charles Mitchell "Dolo" Coker (November 16, 1927 – April 13, 1983) was a jazz pianist and composer who recorded four albums for Xanadu Records and extensively as a sideman, for artists like Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Lou Donaldson, Art Pepper, Philly Joe Jones, and Dexter Gordon.

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Dolo!

Dolo! is the debut album by pianist Dolo Coker which was recorded in 1976 and released on the Xanadu label.

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Don Patterson (organist)

Don Patterson (July 22, 1936, Columbus, Ohio - February 10, 1988, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz organist.

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Down Home (Sam Jones album)

Down Home is the third album by bassist and cellist Sam Jones featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.

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Down with It!

Down with It! is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell, recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Drum Song

Drum Song is an album by drummer Philly Joe Jones which was recorded in 1978, at the same sessions that produced Advance!, but not released on the Galaxy label until 1985.

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Drums Around the World

Drums Around the World (subtitled Philly Joe Jones Big Band Sounds) is the second album led by American jazz drummer Philly Joe Jones which was recorded in 1959 for the Riverside label.

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Earl Bostic

Eugene Earl Bostic (April 25, 1913 – October 28, 1965) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and a pioneer of the post-war American rhythm and blues style.

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Electric Funk

Electric Funk is an album by the American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff of performances recorded in 1969 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Elmo Hope

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Elvin Jones

Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era.

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Everything I Play Is Funky

Everything I Play is Funky is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label featuring Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Lonnie Smith, Melvin Sparks, Jimmy Lewis and Idris Muhammad and two tracks with Eddie Williams and Charles Earland replacing Mitchell and Smith.

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Filthy!

Filthy! is Papa John Creach's second solo album and the first with his band Zulu.

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Finger Poppin'

Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1959 featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and Louis Hayes.

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Freddie Roach (organist)

Freddie Roach (May 11, 1931 - October 3, 1980) was a soul jazz Hammond B3 organist born in the Bronx, New York.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Funktion Junction

Funktion Junction is a 1976 album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell.

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Galaxy Records

Galaxy Records was a record label founded in 1964 by Max and Sol Weiss in Berkeley, California.

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Gene Taylor (bassist)

Calvin Eugene "Gene" Taylor (March 19, 1929 – December 22, 2001), was an American jazz double bassist.

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George Benson

George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Get Those Elephants Out'a Here

Get Those Elephants Out'a Here is an album by The Mitchells: Whitey Mitchell Red Mitchell and Blue Mitchell, with André Previn recorded for the MetroJazz label in 1958.

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Good Move!

Good Move! is the third album by American organist Freddie Roach recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Graffiti Blues

Graffiti Blues is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1973 and released on the Mainstream label.

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Grant Green

Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) was an American jazz guitarist and composer.

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Green Is Beautiful

Green Is Beautiful is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Grunt Records

Grunt Records is a vanity label founded in 1971 by Jefferson Airplane and distributed by RCA Records.

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Hank Mobley

Henry "Hank" Mobley (July 7, 1930 – May 30, 1986) was an American hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer.

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Harold Land

Harold de Vance Land (December 18, 1928 – July 27, 2001) was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist.

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Harold Mabern

Harold Mabern, Jr. (born March 20, 1936) is an American jazz pianist and composer, principally in the hard bop, post-bop, and soul jazz fields.

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Harold Vick

Harold Vick (April 3, 1936 – November 13, 1987) was an American hard bop and soul jazz saxophonist and flautist.

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Heads Up! (album)

Heads Up! is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1967 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Hi Voltage

Hi Voltage is an album by jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley recorded on October 9, 1967 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Homecoming!

Homecoming! is an album by jazz pianist Elmo Hope recorded in 1961 for the Riverside label.

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Horace Silver

Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.

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Horace-Scope

Horace-Scope is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1960 featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and Roy Brooks.

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Images (Sonny Red album)

Images is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Red, featuring tracks recorded in 1961 with Grant Green and Barry Harris and others recorded in 1962 and released on the Jazzland label.

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In Memory Of (Stanley Turrentine album)

In Memory Of is the eleventh album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, recorded for the Blue Note label in 1964 but not released until the 1980s, and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, Curtis Fuller, Herbie Hancock, Bob Cranshaw, and Otis Finch.

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Jackie McLean

John Lenwood "Jackie" McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''Down Beat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their death.

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Jackie's Bag

Jackie's Bag is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1959 and 1960 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz Blues Fusion (album)

Jazz Blues Fusion is a live album by John Mayall.

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Jimmy McGriff

James Harrell McGriff (April 3, 1936 – May 24, 2008) was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader.

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Jimmy Smith (musician)

James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1925 or 1928 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician who achieved the rare distinction of releasing a series of instrumental jazz albums that often charted on Billboard.

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Joe Zawinul

Josef Erich "Joe" Zawinul (7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer.

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John Mayall

John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, guitarist, organist and songwriter, whose musical career spans over fifty years.

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John Patton (musician)

John Patton (July 12, 1935 – March 19, 2002) was an American jazz, blues and R&B pianist and organist, often known by his nickname, Big John Patton.

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Johnny Griffin

John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Junior Cook

Herman "Junior" Cook (July 22, 1934 – February 3, 1992) was a hard bop tenor saxophone player.

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Junior's Cookin'

Junior's Cookin is the debut album led by American jazz saxophonist Junior Cook which was recorded in 1961 for the Jazzland label.

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Les McCann

Leslie Coleman McCann (born September 23, 1935) is an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

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Les McCann Ltd. in New York

Les McCann Ltd.

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Lou Donaldson

Lou Donaldson (born November 1, 1926) is a jazz alto saxophonist.

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Louie Bellson

Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni (July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009), known by the stage name Louie Bellson (his own preferred spelling, although he is often seen in sources as Louis Bellson), was an American jazz drummer.

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Mainstream Records

Mainstream Records was an American record company and independent record label founded by music producer Bob Shad in 1964.

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Many Shades of Blue

Many Shades of Blue is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell released on the Mainstream label in 1974.

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Mapenzi

Mapenzi is an album by the Harold Land-Blue Mitchell Quintet recorded in 1977 and released on the Concord label.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Midnight Creeper

Midnight Creeper is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label in 1968 and featuring Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Lonnie Smith, George Benson, and Leo Morris.

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Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul album)

Money in the Pocket is the debut album led by keyboardist Joe Zawinul released on the Atlantic label in 1967.

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Montara (album)

Montara is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson recorded in 1975 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Mr. Shing-A-Ling

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Oh Baby! (Big John Patton album)

Oh Baby! is an album by American organist Big John Patton recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Open House (album)

Open House is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1960, but not released on the Blue Note label until 1968.

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Opus De Don

Opus De Don is an album by organist Don Patterson recorded in 1968 and released on the Prestige label.

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Out of the Blue (Blue Mitchell album)

Out of the Blue is the second album led by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded and released in 1959 on the Riverside label.

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Papa John Creach

John Henry Creach (May 28, 1917 – February 22, 1994), better known as Papa John Creach, was an American blues violinist, who has also played "classical, jazz, be-bop, R&B, pop and acid rock" music.

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Paul Williams (saxophonist)

Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams (July 13, 1915 – September 14, 2002) was an American jazz and blues saxophonist, bandleader, and songwriter.

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Philly Joe Jones

Joseph Rudolph "Philly Joe" Jones (July 15, 1923 – August 30, 1985) was a Philadelphia-born American jazz drummer, known as the drummer for the first "Great" Miles Davis Quintet.

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Plain Talk (album)

Plain Talk is a studio album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1960 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1968.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Portrait of Cannonball

Portrait of Cannonball (1958) is the ninth album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his first release on the Riverside label, featuring performances by Blue Mitchell, Bill Evans, Sam Jones, and Philly Joe Jones.

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Pretty Things (album)

Pretty Things is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label featuring Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Leon Spencer, Ted Dunbar, and Idris Muhammad and one track with Lonnie Smith and Melvin Sparks replacing Spencer & Dunbar and Jimmy Lewis added.

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Quartet/Quintet/Sextet

Quartet/Quintet/Sextet is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson featuring his earliest recordings as a leader on the Blue Note label performed by Donaldson's Quartet with Horace Silver, Gene Ramey and Art Taylor, his Quintet with Silver, Blue Mitchell, Art Blakey, and Percy Heath, and a Sextet with Heath, Blakey, Kenny Dorham, Matthew Gee, and Elmo Hope.

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Rakin' and Scrapin'

Rakin' and Scrapin is the second album led by pianist Harold Mabern which was recorded in 1968 and released on the Prestige label.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Red Garland

William McKinley "Red" Garland, Jr. (May 13, 1923 – April 23, 1984) was an American modern jazz pianist.

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Red Mitchell

Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell (September 20, 1927 – November 8, 1992), was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet.

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Red's Good Groove

Red's Good Groove is an album by American jazz pianist Red Garland with a quintet which was recorded in 1962 and released on the Jazzland label.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard Holmes (organist)

Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes (May 2, 1931 – June 29, 1991) was an American jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre.

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Riverside Records

Riverside Records was an American jazz record company and label.

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Rough 'n' Tumble

Rough 'n' Tumble is the fifteenth album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, James Spaulding, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Grant Green, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker with arrangements by Duke Pearson.

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Roy Brooks

Roy Brooks (March 9, 1938 – November 15, 2005) was an American jazz drummer.

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Sam Jones (musician)

Samuel Jones (November 12, 1924 – December 15, 1981) was an American jazz double bassist, cellist, and composer.

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Say It Loud!

Say It Loud! is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label in 1968 and featuring Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Charles Earland, Jimmy Ponder, and Leo Morris.

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Showcase (Philly Joe Jones album)

Showcase is the third album led by American jazz drummer Philly Joe Jones which was recorded in 1959 for the Riverside label.

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Silver Blue (album)

Silver Blue is a jazz album by saxophonist Dexter Gordon and saxophonist Al Cohn, recorded in 1976 for Xanadu Records.

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Silver's Serenade

Silver's Serenade is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1963 featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and Roy Brooks.

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Smooth as the Wind

Smooth as the Wind is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell with strings and brass recorded in late 1960 and early 1961 and released on the Riverside label.

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Something in Common (Sam Jones album)

Something in Common is a studio album by American jazz bassist Sam Jones which was released on September 13, 1977 via the Muse label.

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Song for My Father (album)

Song for My Father is a 1965 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label in 1965.

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Sonny Red

Sonny Red (born Sylvester Kyner Jr., December 17, 1932, Detroit – March 20, 1981, Detroit) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the hard bop idiom among other styles.

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Sonny Stitt

Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom.

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Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass

Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1962 and released on the Atlantic label.

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Soul jazz

Soul jazz is a development of jazz incorporating strong influences from blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for small groups, often an organ trio featuring a Hammond organ.

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Soul Mist!

Soul Mist! is an album by jazz organist Richard "Groove" Holmes which was recorded in 1966 but not released on the Prestige label until 1970.

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Soul Time

Soul Time is a 1960 jazz album by pianist Bobby Timmons featuring Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Sam Jones on bass, and Art Blakey on drums.

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Spectrum (Cedar Walton album)

Spectrum is an album by pianist Cedar Walton, recorded in 1968 and released on the Prestige label.

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Stablemates (album)

Stablemates is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1977 and originally released on the Japanese label Discomate before being released on CD on the Candid label in 2006.

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Stanley Turrentine

Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Step 1 (album)

Step 1 is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff recorded in late 1968 and first released on the Solid State label the following year.

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Step Lightly

Step Lightly is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell featuring his first session recorded for the Blue Note label in 1963 but not released until 1980.

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Steppin' Out!

Steppin' Out! is the debut album by American saxophonist Harold Vick recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Stratosonic Nuances

Stratosonic Nuances is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell released on the RCA label in 1975.

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Street Singer

Street Singer is a hard bop album jointly led by tenor Tina Brooks and alto Jackie McLean, released on the Japanese Blue Note label in 1980.

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Summer Soft

Summer Soft is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1977 and released on the Impulse! label in 1978.

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Tadd Dameron

Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) was an American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist.

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Takin' Care of Business (album)

Takin' Care of Business is an album led by American jazz saxophonist Charlie Rouse which was recorded in 1960 for the Jazzland label.

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Ten Years Are Gone

Ten Years Are Gone is a double album by John Mayall, recorded at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, and released in 1973.

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The Blue Yusef Lateef

The Blue Yusef Lateef is an album by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef recorded in 1968 and released on the Atlantic label.

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The Caribbean Suite

The Caribbean Suite is the second album led by American saxophonist Harold Vick recorded in 1966 and released on the RCA Victor label.

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The Chant (album)

The Chant is the second album by bassist and cellist Sam Jones featuring performances recorded in early 1961 and originally released on the Riverside label.

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The Cup Bearers

The Cup Bearers is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.

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The Electric Boogaloo Song

The Electric Boogaloo Song is an album by pianist Cedar Walton, which was recorded in 1969 and released on the Prestige label.

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The Last Tango = Blues

The Last Tango.

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The Magic Touch (Tadd Dameron album)

The Magic Touch is a 1962 album by jazz pianist and arranger Tadd Dameron and His Orchestra, released on Riverside Records.

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The Return of the Prodigal Son (album)

The Return of the Prodigal Son is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine consisting of two sessions recorded for the Blue Note label in 1967 and arranged by Duke Pearson featuring McCoy Tyner Tracks 1, 4, 6 were originally issued on New Time Shuffle (1979, LT 993), along with tracks 1 and 3-5 from A Bluish Bag.

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The Soul Brotherhood

The Soul Brotherhood is an album by organist Charles Kynard which was recorded in 1969 and released on the Prestige label.

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The Soul Society

The Soul Society is the debut album by bassist and cellist Sam Jones featuring performances recorded in early 1960 and originally released on the Riverside label.

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The Spoiler (album)

The Spoiler is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, James Spaulding, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Julian Priester, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker with arrangements by Duke Pearson.

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The Sugar Man

The Sugar Man is an album by Stanley Turrentine.

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The Thing to Do (album)

The Thing to Do is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1964 and released on the Blue Note label.

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The Time Is Right

The Time Is Right is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Horace Parlan, Laymon Jackson, Dave Bailey, and Ray Barretto with Sam Jones and Al Harewood replacing Jackson and Bailey on one track.

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The Tokyo Blues

The Tokyo Blues is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1962, featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, and John Harris Jr.

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The Worm (album)

The Worm is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy McGriff featuring performances recorded in 1968 and originally released on the Solid State label.

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Tina Brooks

Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks (June 7, 1932 – August 13, 1974) was an American hard bop, blues, and funk tenor saxophonist and composer.

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Together! (Elvin Jones and Philly Joe Jones album)

Together! is a jazz album by drummers Philly Joe Jones and Elvin Jones recorded in 1961 and released on the Atlantic label.

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Tony Bennett

Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz.

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True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon album)

True Blue is a jazz album by saxophonist Dexter Gordon and saxophonist Al Cohn, recorded in 1976 for Xanadu Records.

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Vital Blue

Vital Blue is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1971 and released on the Mainstream label.

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Whitey Mitchell

Gordon "Whitey" Mitchell (February 22, 1932 – January 16, 2009) was an American jazz bassist and television writer/producer.

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Xanadu Records

Xanadu Records was a jazz record label founded in 1975 by Don Schlitten.

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Yusef Lateef

Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America, in 1950.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mitchell

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