Summer Soft Explained

Summer Soft
Type:	Album
Artist:	Blue Mitchell
Cover:	Summer Soft.jpg
Released:	February 22, 1978
Recorded:	1977
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	40:23
Label:	Impulse!
Producer:	Esmond Edwards
Chronology:	Blue Mitchell
Prev Title:	Stablemates
Prev Year:	1977

Summer Soft is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell, recorded in 1977 and released on the Impulse! label in 1978.^[1] It was his final album.^[2]

Reception

In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "Although there are some fine players on this LP they are largely wasted on inferior material and commercial arrangements".^[3]

Track listing

1. "Try Not to Forget" (Cedar Walton) – 7:20
2. "Summer Soft" (Stevie Wonder) – 5:55
3. " A Day at the Mint" (Blue Mitchell) – 6:15
4. "Love Has Made Me a Dreamer" (Mike Dosco, Esmond Edwards) – 4:50
5. "Evergreen" (Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams) – 4:37
6. "30 Degrees to the Wind" (Cedar Walton, Susan Brickell) – 5:53
7. "Funkthesizer" (Eddie Harris) – 5:33

• Recorded in ABC Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California in 1977.

Personnel

• 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 – percussion
• Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Waters Willard, Oren Waters – vocals (tracks 2, 4, 6 & 7)

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/MitchellBlue-ldr.php Blue Mitchell discography
2. News: Fraser . C. Gerald . Blue Mitchell, 49, Jazzman, Dies; A Trumpeter With Horace Silver . The New York Times . 24 May 1979 . D21.
3. Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed June 14, 2011