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Summer Soft Studio album by Blue Mitchell
Released 1978 Recorded 1977 Genre Jazz Length 40 :23 Label Impulse! Producer Esmond Edwards Blue Mitchell chronologyStablemates (1977)Summer Soft (1978)
Summer Soft is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1977 and released on the Impulse! label in 1978.[1]
Contents 1 Reception 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 4 References Reception [ edit] Allmusic awarded the album 2 stars with reviewer Scott Yanow stating "Although there are some fine players on this LP they are largely wasted on inferior material and commercial arrangements".[2]
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [2]
Track listing [ edit] "Try Not to Forget" (Cedar Walton) - 7:20 "Summer Soft" (Stevie Wonder) - 5:55 " A Day at the Mint" (Blue Mitchell) - 6:15 "Love Has Made Me a Dreamer" (Mike Dosco, Esmond Edwards) - 4:50 "Evergreen" (Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams) - 4:37 "30 Degrees to the Wind" (Cedar Walton, Susan Brickell) - 5:53 "Funkthesizer" (Eddie Harris) - 5:33 Recorded in Los Angeles, California in 1977. Personnel [ edit] Blue Mitchell - trumpet (tracks 1 & 3-7), flugelhorn (track 2), vocals (track 7) Eddie Harris (track 7), Harold Land (tracks 1, 2 & 6), Herman Riley (track 3) - tenor saxophone Cedar Walton - piano (tracks 1, 2 & 6), electric piano (track 3) Bobby Lyle - electric piano (track 2), piano (tracks 5 & 7) Richard Tee - keyboard (track 4) Michael Boddicker - synthesizer (tracks 1, 2, 5 & 6)Mike Dosco, Lee Ritenour (track 4) - guitar Scott Edwards - bass James Gadson - drums Paulinho Da Costa - percussionJulia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters - vocals (tracks 2, 4, 6 & 7) References [ edit] ^ Blue Mitchell discography accessed June 14, 2011 ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed June 14, 2011 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)
Cedar Walton
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader Cedar! (1967)Spectrum (1968)The Electric Boogaloo Song (1969)Soul Cycle (1969)Breakthrough! (1972)A Night at Boomers, Vol. 1 (1973)A Night at Boomers, Vol. 2 (1973)Firm Roots (1974)Pit Inn (1974)Mobius (1975)Eastern Rebellion (1976)The Pentagon (1975)Beyond Mobius (1976)Eastern Rebellion 2 (1977)First Set (1977)Second Set (1977)Third Set (1977)Animation (1978)Eastern Rebellion 3 (1979)Soundscapes (1980)The Maestro (1981)Piano Solos (1981)Heart & Soul (1982)Among Friends (1982)The All American Trio (1983)Eastern Rebellion 4 (1983)Cedar's Blues (1985)The Trio 1 (1985)The Trio 2 (1985)The Trio 3 (1985)Cedar Walton (1985)Bluesville Time (1985)Blues for Myself (1986)Cedar Walton Plays (1986)Duo (1990)Cedar Walton at Maybeck (1992)Manhattan Afternoon (1992)Composer (1996)Roots (1997)The Promise Land (2001)Latin Tinge (2002)Underground Memoirs (2005)Midnight Waltz (2005)One Flight Down (2006)Seasoned Wood (2008)Voices Deep Within (2009)The Bouncer (2011)As sideman with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Three Blind Mice (1961)Mosaic (1961)Buhaina's Delight (1961)Caravan (1962)Ugetsu (1963)Free for All (1964)Kyoto (1964)Indestructible (1964)Golden Boy (1964)Buhaina (1973)Anthenagin (1973)With Art Farmer (or where stated), Benny Golson & The Jazztet Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Golson, 1960–61)The Jazztet and John Lewis (The Jazztet, 1960–61)Big City Sounds (The Jazztet, 1961)The Jazztet at Birdhouse (The Jazztet, 1961)The Time and the Place (1967)The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits (1967)Homecoming (1971)Yesterday's Thoughts (1975)To Duke with Love (1975)The Summer Knows (1976)Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers (1976)Voices All (The Jazztet, 1982)With Eddie Harris Cool Sax from Hollywood to Broadway (1964)The In Sound (1965)Mean Greens (1966)The Tender Storm (1966)Excursions (1966)How Can You Live Like That? (1976)With Billy Higgins Soweto (1979)The Soldier (1979)Once More (1980)Bridgework (1980–86)Billy Higgins Quintet (1993)With Milt Jackson Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art (1965)Born Free (1966)Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet (1968)Goodbye (1972–73)Olinga (1974)With Etta James Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday (1994)Time After Time (1995)12 Songs of Christmas (1998)Blue Gardenia (2000–1)With Clifford Jordan Spellbound (1960)Starting Time (1961)Bearcat (1962)These are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly (1965)Glass Bead Games (1973)Half Note (1974)Night of the Mark VII (aka, The Highest Mountain , Muse, 1975)On Stage Vol. 1 (1975)On Stage Vol. 2 (1975)On Stage Vol. 3 (1975)Firm Roots (1975)The Highest Mountain (SteepleChase, 1975)With Blue Mitchell The Cup Bearers (1962)Boss Horn (1966)Stratosonic Nuances (1975)Summer Soft (1977)With Houston Person Chocomotive (1967)Trust in Me (1967)Blue Odyssey (1968)Broken Windows, Empty Hallways (1972)The Big Horn (1976)Very Personal (1980)Naturally (2012)With others God Bless Jug and Sonny (Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, 1973)Left Bank Encores (Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, 1973)Something for Lester (Ray Brown, 1977)Slow Drag (Donald Byrd, 1967)The Almoravid (Joe Chambers, 1971–73)Somethin's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1981)Broken Shadows (Ornette Coleman, 1971–72)Katumbo (Dance) (Johnny Coles, 1971)Giant Steps (John Coltrane, 1959)Up, Up and Away (Sonny Criss, 1967)The Beat Goes On! (Sonny Criss, 1968)This Is the Moment! (Kenny Dorham, 1958)Blue Spring (Kenny Dorham & Cannonball Adderley, 1959)It's All Right! (Teddy Edwards, 1967)Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961)Smokin' (Curtis Fuller, 1972)Tangerine (Dexter Gordon, 1972)Generation (Dexter Gordon, 1972)Bush Dance (Johnny Griffin, 1978)Roots (Slide Hampton, 1985)The Quota (Jimmy Heath, 1961)Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962)Mode for Joe (Joe Henderson, 1966)Hub Cap (Freddie Hubbard, 1961)Here to Stay (Freddie Hubbard, 1962)The Body & the Soul (Freddie Hubbard,1963)Bolivia (Freddie Hubbard, 1991)Highway One (Bobby Hutcherson, 1978)Farewell Keystone (Bobby Hutcherson, 1982)Really Livin' (J.J. Johnson, 1959)J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1960)Save Your Love for Me (Etta Jones, 1986)Advance! (Philly Joe Jones, 1978)Drum Song (Philly Joe Jones, 1978)Seven Minds (Sam Jones, 1974)Something in Common (Sam Jones, 1974–77)First Class Kloss! (Eric Kloss, 1967)Abbey Is Blue (Abbey Lincoln, 1959)Strings! (Pat Martino, 1967)From This Moment On! (Charles McPherson, 1968)Horizons (Charles McPherson, 1968)Caramba! (Lee Morgan, 1968)The Sixth Sense (Lee Morgan, 1968)The Mode (Sonny Red, 1961)Sonny Red (1971)Setting Standards (Woody Shaw, 1983)For Losers (Archie Shepp, 1968–69)Kwanza (Archie Shepp, 1968–69)Now Is the Time (Idrees Sulieman, 1976)Goodbye Yesterday (Lucky Thompson, 1972)Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail (Lucky Thompson, 1972)I Offer You (Lucky Thompson, 1973)Another Story (Stanley Turrentine, 1969)Up Front (David Williams, 1986)
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