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Collision In Black

Blue Mitchell

Recorded	Sep 9-12, 1968
Label	Blue Note
Catalog	BST 84300
Released	1968
Personnel	13 credited players
Discogs	master 332288

The record

Cut with a Los Angeles studio crew in the fall of '68, this one trades bop lines for wah-guitar and organ-driven funk, Mitchell's horn riding grooves rather than changes. It's a clear marker of Blue Note's late-decade pivot toward soul jazz.

Session personnel

Bob West — bass
Paul Humphrey — drums
Ernie Watts — flute
Jim Horn — flute
Albert Vescovo — guitar
Dee Ervin — organ, percussion
John Cyr — percussion
Monk Higgins — piano, organ
Miles Grayson — piano, percussion
Anthony Ortega — tenor saxophone
Dick "Slyde" Hyde — trombone
Jack Redmond — trombone
Blue Mitchell — trumpet

Contemporary reception

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Pressings

1969	Blue Note · BST 84300 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Bert-Co labels, Capitol Records, Jacksonville pressing earliest on file · RVG stamp
1969	Blue Note — STEREO
1969	Blue Note · BST 84300 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1969	Blue Note · BNTJ (M) 84300 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1971	Blue Note · BLC 84300 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1978	Blue Note · BST 84300 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1978	Blue Note · BST 84300 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
—	Blue Note · BLP 4300 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Scorpio
—	Blue Note · BST 84300 K — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo