This excellent session (recorded at Half Moon Bay in 1976 but not released until this 1995 CD) features trumpeter Blue Mitchell with four Northern California musicians: the obscure Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonist Mike Morris, pianist Mark Levine, bassist Kenny Jenkins and drummer Smiley Winters. The repertoire is fresh, consisting of a nearly 17-minute "Pleasure Bent," the warm ballad "Portrait of Jenny," a song called "Sweet Smiley Winters" that is really a "Sweet Georgia Brown" line penned decades earlier by Coleman Hawkins, Levine's "Something Old, Something Blue" and a brief "Blues Theme." Mitchell is heard in prime form throughout the enjoyable straightahead set which contains a few subtle surprises.
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AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow
Track Listing
| Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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| 1 | Blue Mitchell | 17:01 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 2 | Blue Mitchell | 09:26 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 3 | Blue Mitchell | 11:10 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 4 | Blue Mitchell | 13:37 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 5 | Blue Mitchell | 05:22 | SpotifyAmazon |
