Blue Mitchell: Down With It! LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-31 Tommy Flanagan (piano) and Henry

Tommy Flanagan (piano) and Henry Grimes (bass)

“The night”

including this tremendous live album captured at the legendary Harlem club that finds Smith in a trio setting with guitarist Eddie McFadden and drummer Donald Bailey stretching out on 3 standards ('After Hours

Luques Curtis on bass

Airmail Special

Blue Mitchell: Down With It! LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-31 Tommy Flanagan (piano) and HenryBlue 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