Red Mitchell, bassist, and Harold Land, tenor saxophonist, formed a hard bop quintet around 1960. The featured track here is “Triplin’ Awhile”, drawn from the Hear Ye! Album of 1961, which I bought at the time and still have. This was a fine group of musicians as you can tell immediately. The trumpet of Carmell Jones is a treat for me and so is Harold Land’s sax. This music does not go out of date. Mitchell at that time had been very active in the West Coast jazz scene for ten years or so, and he would be in demand … Continue reading Jazz Birthday: Red Mitchell (1927)