Blue Soul (Blue Mitchell album)

1959 studio album by Blue Mitchell

Blue Soul

Studio album by Blue Mitchell

Released

1959

Recorded

September 24, 28 & 30, 1959

Studio

Reeves Sound Studios, NYC

Genre

Jazz

Length

40:27

Blue Mitchell chronology

Out of the Blue
(1959)

Blue Soul
(1959)

Blue's Moods
(1960)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
DownBeat
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

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

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "This is one of the most precious jazz recordings of a year that would soon give sway to the Blue Note sound, and is in many real and important ways as much of a prelude as any other statement. It's a must-have for all serious mainstream jazz fans".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Blue Mitchell, except where noted

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Minor Vamp" (Benny Golson)	3:42
2.	"The Head"	4:28
3.	"The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern)	3:22
4.	"Park Avenue Petite" (Golson)	3:58
5.	"Top Shelf" (Jimmy Heath)	4:06
6.	"Waverly Street" (Heath)	5:00
7.	"Blue Soul"	4:12
8.	"Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen)	5:50
9.	"Nica's Dream" (Horace Silver)	6:32

Recorded September 24 (tracks 1 & 2), September 28 (tracks 5, 6, 8 & 9) and September 30 (tracks 3, 4 & 7), 1959.

Personnel

Blue Mitchell – trumpet
Curtis Fuller – trombone (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 & 9)
Jimmy Heath – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 & 9)
Wynton Kelly – piano
Sam Jones – bass
Philly Joe Jones – drums

References

^ Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review accessed October 25, 2010
Gleason, Ralph J. (31 March 1960). "Blue Mithcell: Blue Soul". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 7. p. 29.
Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1009. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
Riverside Records discography accessed October 25, 2010

v t e Blue Mitchell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Big 6 (1958) Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (with Red and Whitey Mitchell, 1958) Out of the Blue (1959) Blue Soul (1959) Blue's Moods (1960) Smooth as the Wind (1960–61) A Sure Thing (1962) The Cup Bearers (1962) Step Lightly (1963) The Thing to Do (1964) Down with It! (1965) Bring It Home to Me (1966) Boss Horn (1966) Heads Up! (1967) Collision in Black (1968) Bantu Village (1969) Blue Mitchell/Soul Village (1971) Vital Blue (1971) Blues' Blues (1972) The Last Tango = Blues (1973) Graffiti Blues (1973) Many Shades of Blue (1974) Stratosonic Nuances (1975) Funktion Junction (1976) African Violet (1977) Mapenzi (1977) Stablemates (1977) Summer Soft (1977)
With Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952) The Time Is Right (1959) Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967) Midnight Creeper (1968) Say It Loud! (1968) Everything I Play Is Funky (1970) Pretty Things (1970)
With Philly Joe Jones	Together! (with Elvin Jones, 1961) Drums Around the World (1959) Showcase (1959) Advance! (1978) Drum Song (1978)
With Sam Jones	The Soul Society (1960) The Chant (1961) Down Home (1962) Something in Common (1974–77) Changes & Things (1977)
With Jimmy McGriff	The Worm (1968) Step 1 (1968) A Thing to Come By (1969) Electric Funk (1969)
With Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Finger Poppin' (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64)
With Stanley Turrentine	A Chip off the Old Block (1963) In Memory Of (1964) Rough 'n' Tumble (1966) The Spoiler (1966) A Bluish Bag (1967) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) The Sugar Man (1971)
With others	Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley, 1958) Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks, 1960) Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean, 1960) My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles, 1970) True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Dolo! (Dolo Coker, 1976) California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976) Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1961) Filthy! (Papa John Creach, 1972) Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962) Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green, 1970) Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1966) Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961) Montara (Bobby Hutcherson, 1975) The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard, 1969) The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968) Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern, 1968) Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall, 1971) Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973) Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961) Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae, 1976) Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960) Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960) Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967) Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman, 1970) Opus De Don (Don Patterson, 1968) Oh Baby! (Big John Patton, 1965) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Images (Sonny Red, 1961) Good Move! (Freddie Roach, 1963) Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse, 1960) Open House (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt, 1962) Soul Time (Bobby Timmons, 1960) Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963) The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966) Spectrum (Cedar Walton, 1968) The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969) Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976) Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)

v t e Jimmy Heath
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
As leader or co-leader	The Thumper (1959) Really Big! (1960) The Quota (1961) Triple Threat (1962) Swamp Seed (1963) On the Trail (1964) Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank (with Freddie Hubbard, 1965) The Gap Sealer (1972) Love and Understanding (1973) The Time and the Place (1974) Picture of Heath (1975) New Picture (1985) Peer Pleasure (1987) You've Changed (1991) Little Man Big Band (1992) You or Me (1995)
With Art Farmer	The Time and the Place: The Lost Concert (Mosaic, 1966) The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits (1967) The Time and the Place (Columbia, 1967) Homecoming (1971)
With Milt Jackson	Howard McGhee and Milt Jackson (1948) Statements (1961) Vibrations (1961) Big Bags (1962) Invitation (1962) Milt Jackson Quintet Live at the Village Gate (1963) Jazz 'n' Samba (1963) In a New Setting (1964) Ray Brown / Milt Jackson (1965) Born Free (1966) Olinga (1974)
With others	That's Right! (Nat Adderley, 1960) Up with Donald Byrd (1964) Regeneration (Stanley Cowell, 1975) Miles Davis Volume 2 (1953) Kenny Dorham Quintet (1953) Showboat (Kenny Dorham, 1960) Black Drops (Charles Earland, 1970) Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Smokin' (Curtis Fuller, 1972) The Quota (Red Garland, 1971) Kwanza (The First) (Albert Heath, 1973) Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961) Hub Cap (Freddie Hubbard, 1961) Jay Hawk Talk (Carmell Jones, 1965) The Soul Society (Sam Jones, 1960) The Chant (Sam Jones, 1961) Down Home (Sam Jones, 1962) Latin Mann (Herbie Mann, 1965) Blue Soul (Blue Mitchell, 1959) A Sure Thing (Blue Mitchell, 1962) MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (1994) Keep Swingin' (Julian Priester, 1960) Soul Sauce (Cal Tjader, 1964) Music Inc. (Charles Tolliver, 1970) New York, New Sound (Gerald Wilson, 2003) Turned to Blue (Nancy Wilson, released 2006)

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