Blue Mitchell: Down With It! LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 2LP Joined by the brilliant guitarist

Joined by the brilliant guitarist Grant Green

trumpeter Lee Morgan was still two months shy of his 30th birthday

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Recorded with minimal preparation or rehearsal

Blue Mitchell: Down With It! LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 2LP Joined by the brilliant guitaristBlue 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