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Blue Mitchell has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 11 episodes and was first played on 2 September 2015.

Richard Allen (Blue) Mitchell (March 13, 1930 – May 21, 1979) was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, and funk trumpeter, known for many albums recorded as leader and sideman on Blue Note Records.

Mitchell was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He began playing trumpet in high school where he acquired his nickname, Blue.

After high school he played in the rhythm and blues ensembles of Paul Williams, Earl Bostic, and Chuck Willis. After returning to Miami he was noticed…

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Mainstream Records1971
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Love Has Made Me A Dreamer
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ABC Impulse!1978
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Melody For Thelma
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RCA1975
Melody For Thelma
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Park Avenue Petite
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Original Jazz Classics, Riverside Records1988
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Blue Note1965
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Mamacita
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Blue Note1980
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Asso-Kam
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Mainstream Records1973
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Good Humor Man
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Blue Note1968
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Harmony Of The Underworld
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Mainstream Records1974
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Blues' Blues
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Mainstream Records1972
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