Comments on: Today’s Blues: Blue Mitchell, and Blue Notes

By: Marco Mcculough

Marco Mcculough — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:50:18 +0000

The remainder of the group is also very high level, BENNY GOLSON on tenor sax playing as magnificient as ever, CEDAR WALTON on piano in one theme “Studio B” also a great pianist, ART BLAKEY on drums one of the three better usual drummers, the well-known SAM JONES and PAUL CHAMBERS on bass distributing the session and of course the excellent form in which this distinctive trumpeter BLUE MITCHELL is found.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 18:02:58 +0000

Also, that cover doesn’t appear NM to me. Closer to VG+ or VG++.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:04:58 +0000

That Blue Mitchell session is wonderful, though I can’t say I’d fork over the necessary funds to own an original these days.

By: Art Klempner

Art Klempner — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 14:35:30 +0000

So at long last it seems to me that finely it is about the music ! We collect sound not labels, it is about our ear first of all and then and only then it is about the RVG ear in the dead wax.

By: Michel

Michel — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 14:15:01 +0000

One Flight Up is sought after because of the incredible “Tanya” on side one.

I had a VG+ original autographed by Dexter. I sold it long ago. (No comment. Thank you).

By: Michel

Michel — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 14:12:50 +0000

I think Blue’s Moods is highly regarded because :

1- The session is so fine, with excellent drumming by Roy Brooks and fantastic version of “I’ll close my eyes” among other highlights.

2 – Its’s quartet session, a rare setting for Blue Mitchell

3 – It’s Blue Mitchell, and this guy is an incredible trumpeter, an advanced funky player, a subtle innovator.

4 – This one was in NM condition, the cover seems to have not much ring wear, and it is partcularily hard to get fine condition Riverside…