Smooth As the Wind

Blue Mitchell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 19, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1960
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000Z1S
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423,844 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Smooth as the Wind

2. But Beautiful

3. The Best Things in Life Are Free

4. Peace

5. For Heaven's Sake

6. The Nearness of You

7. A Blue Time

8. Strollin'

9. For All We Know

10. I'm a Fool to Want You

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true jazz classic, April 21, 1999

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This review is from: Smooth As the Wind (Audio CD)

This is one of the truely great jazz albums. I have own the original 33 1/3 Lp for over 30 years, and have replaced it with the CD. For anyone wanting to hear one of the great, but under rated, jazz trumpeters playing impeccable, tasteful, yet beautiful music with a full orchestra of other great musicians -- this is your album. Guaranteed. Along with Clifford Brown's strings album, this rates among the best from the classic jazz period of the 1950s-1960s with a full orchestra. For aficionados, only Miles' work with Gil Evans can be rated above this.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blue joins Ben, Brownie, Bird and the rest with ease.., September 7, 2003

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"douglasnegley" (Pittsburgh, Pa. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Smooth As the Wind (Audio CD)

With arrangers like Tadd Dameron and Benny Golson (who also worked with Blue on "Blue Soul"), and a stellar trumpet player who fits the genre, you can not miss - and this CD does not. Blue Mitchell is one of my 5 favorite trumpet players. Somewhat underappreciated by the jazz public at large, Blue proves to be as versatile as any of the string collaberators mentioned above, and some others not mentioned (Wes, Stan,etc.). For those who just won't or can't dig jazz with strings...simply pass this by; but you will be missing out on one of the greats doing it as well as anyone ever has.

5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure of a trumpet player!, April 1, 2011

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Peter M. Boam (Novato, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Smooth As the Wind (Audio CD)

I still have this vinyl LP in my collection. Before CDs, I listened to it dozens of times. Blue Mitchell has a unique tone and unmistakable phrasing. This is one of my all-time favorites. The strings provide an exquisite frame to Mitchell's trumpet. Recorded long before editing became sophisticated, there is one point where Blue misses a high note, but goes one. This imperfection does not subtract from the work as a whole, but instead adds to its charm.