Summer Soft
title: "Summer Soft" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1978-albums", "albums-produced-by-esmond-edwards", "blue-mitchell-albums", "impulse!-records-albums"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Soft" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 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 |
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| name = Summer Soft | type = Album | artist = Blue Mitchell | cover = Summer Soft.jpg | alt = | released = February 22, 1978 | recorded = 1977 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 40:23 | label = Impulse! | producer = Esmond Edwards | chronology = Blue Mitchell | prev_title = Stablemates | prev_year = 1977 | next_title = | next_year = Summer Soft is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell, recorded in 1977 and released on the Impulse! label in 1978. It was his final album.
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". | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score =
Track listing
- "Try Not to Forget" (Cedar Walton) – 7:20
- "Summer Soft" (Stevie Wonder) – 5:55
- " A Day at the Mint" (Blue Mitchell) – 6:15
- "Love Has Made Me a Dreamer" (Mike Dosco, Esmond Edwards) – 4:30
- "Evergreen" (Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams) – 4:37
- "30 Degrees to the Wind" (Cedar Walton, Susan Brickell) – 5:53
- "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)
References
References
- [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/MitchellBlue-ldr.php Blue Mitchell discography] accessed June 14, 2011
- (24 May 1979). "Blue Mitchell, 49, Jazzman, Dies; A Trumpeter With Horace Silver". The New York Times.
- Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/african-violet-r143991 AllMusic Review] accessed June 14, 2011{{failed verification. (September 2025)
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