Blue Mitchell
Trumpet Solo on
Where You At?

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Blue Mitchell contributes three choruses on trumpet, the second of 4 solos on the recording. Taken at a blazing swing tempo of 278 BPM over the 24-bar form in A♭, the improvisation requires fleet execution and decisive melodic choices. Blue Mitchell follows with three trumpet choruses of characteristic warmth and rhythmic surety, his playing maintaining melodic clarity even at high speed. Recorded for the album Horace-Scope in 1960, the performance captures Blue Mitchell at 29 to 30 years old. "Where You At?" is a hard-swinging original from Horace Silver's 1960 Blue Note album Horace-Scope, featuring extended solos from all four members of the quintet at a blazing tempo.

Blue Mitchell was 29 to 30 years old at the time.