Billy Mitchell - This is Billy Mitchell (1962)

Tracklist

1. J & B
2. Sophisticated Lady
3. You Turned The Tables On Me
4. Passionova
5. Tamra
6. Automation
7. Just Waiting
8. Siam

personnel :

Clarence "Sleepy" Anderson - organ
Billy Mitchell - tenor saxophone
Otis Finch - drums
Dave Burns - trumpet
Herman Wright - bass
Billy Wallace - piano
Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone

Tenor saxophonist Billy Mitchell's second album as a leader (following a 1960 Jubilee date) was last available as a Trip LP in the early 1980s. Although the tenor saxophonist is in typically fine form on six obscurities and two standards ("Sophisticated Lady" and "You Turned the Tables On Me"), this record's main significance is that it features the young vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, who was virtually at the beginning of his career. Five of the eight songs also include trumpeter Dave Burns, pianist Billy Wallace, bassist Herman Wright and drummer Otis Finch, while the other numbers have organist Sleepy Anderson in place of Wallace and Burns. Mainstream hard bop of the era.~ Scott Yanow