Stratosonic Nuances

1975 studio album by Blue Mitchell

Stratosonic Nuances

Studio album by

Blue Mitchell

Released

1975

Recorded

1975

Studio

RCA Studio A, Hollywood, CA

Genre

Jazz

Length

39:45

Label

RCA
APL1-1109

Producer

Mike Lipskin

Blue Mitchell chronology

Many Shades of Blue
(1974)

Stratosonic Nuances
(1975)

Funktion Junction
(1976)

Stratosonic Nuances is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell released on the RCA label in 1975.^[1]^[2]

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 2 stars stating "one might have expected great things. Unfortunately, the music is quite commercial (obviously recorded with potential record sales in mind) and is sunk by dull and instantly dated arrangements".^[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

Track listing

"Satin Soul" (Barry White) - 7:20
"Creepin'" (Stevie Wonder) - 12:01
"Bump It" (Blue Mitchell) - 4:53
"Nutty" (Thelonious Monk) - 8:56
"Melody for Thelma" (Mitchell) - 6:55

Personnel

Blue Mitchell - trumpet, flugelhorn
Ralph Jones - flute, tenor saxophone
Harold Land - tenor saxophone
Terry Harrington - baritone saxophone
Oscar Brashear - trumpet
Gale Robinson - French horn
George Bohanon - trombone
Mike Anthony, David T. Walker - guitar
Hampton Hawes - electric piano
Clarence McDonald - electric piano, clavinet, synthesizer, arranger
Cedar Walton - electric piano, synthesizer
Tony Newton - electric bass
James Gadson - drums
Gary Coleman - percussion
Wade Marcus - arranger and conductor
Mike Lipskin - arranger

References

^ Blue Mitchell discography accessed November 12, 2014
^ Blue Mitchell catalog accessed November 12, 2014
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed November 12, 2014

Blue Mitchell

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.

As
leader
or
co-leader

Big 6 (1958)
Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (with Red and Whitey Mitchell, 1958)
Out of the Blue (1959)
Blue Soul (1959)
Blue's Moods (1960)
Smooth as the Wind (1960–61)
A Sure Thing (1962)
The Cup Bearers (1962)
Step Lightly (1963)
The Thing to Do (1964)
Down with It! (1965)
Bring It Home to Me (1966)
Boss Horn (1966)
Heads Up! (1967)
Collision in Black (1968)
Bantu Village (1969)
Blue Mitchell/Soul Village (1971)
Vital Blue (1971)
Blues' Blues (1972)
The Last Tango = Blues (1973)
Graffiti Blues (1973)
Many Shades of Blue (1974)
Stratosonic Nuances (1975)
Funktion Junction (1976)
African Violet (1977)
Mapenzi (1977)
Stablemates (1977)
Summer Soft (1977)

With
Lou
Donaldson

Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952)
The Time Is Right (1959)
Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967)
Midnight Creeper (1968)
Say It Loud! (1968)
Everything I Play Is Funky (1970)
Pretty Things (1970)

With
Philly
Joe
Jones

Together! (with Elvin Jones, 1961)
Drums Around the World (1959)
Showcase (1959)
Advance! (1978)
Drum Song (1978)

With
Sam
Jones

The Soul Society (1960)
The Chant (1961)
Down Home (1962)
Something in Common (1974–77)
Changes & Things (1977)

With
Jimmy
McGriff

The Worm (1968)
Step 1 (1968)
A Thing to Come By (1969)
Electric Funk (1969)

With
Horace
Silver

Blowin' the Blues Away (1959)
Finger Poppin' (1959)
Horace-Scope (1960)
Doin' the Thing (1961)
The Tokyo Blues (1962)
Silver's Serenade (1963)
Song for My Father (1963–64)

With
Stanley
Turrentine

A Chip off the Old Block (1963)
In Memory Of (1964)
Rough 'n' Tumble (1966)
The Spoiler (1966)
A Bluish Bag (1967)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)
The Sugar Man (1971)

With
others

Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley, 1958)
Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks, 1960)
Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean, 1960)
My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles, 1970)
True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976)
Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976)
Dolo! (Dolo Coker, 1976)
California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976)
Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1961)
Filthy! (Papa John Creach, 1972)
Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962)
Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green, 1970)
Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1966)
Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961)
Montara (Bobby Hutcherson, 1975)
The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard, 1969)
The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968)
Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern, 1968)
Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall, 1971)
Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973)
Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961)
Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae, 1976)
Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960)
Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960)
Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967)
Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman, 1970)
Opus De Don (Don Patterson, 1968)
Oh Baby! (Big John Patton, 1965)
Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960)
Images (Sonny Red, 1961)
Good Move! (Freddie Roach, 1963)
Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse, 1960)
Open House (Jimmy Smith, 1960)
Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960)
Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt, 1962)
Soul Time (Bobby Timmons, 1960)
Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963)
The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966)
Spectrum (Cedar Walton, 1968)
The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969)
Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976)
Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)

v t e Hampton Hawes
Years given are for the recording(s), not release.
Albums as leader	Hampton Hawes Trio (1955) This Is Hampton Hawes (1955–56) Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes (1956) All Night Session! Vol. 1 (1956) All Night Session! Vol. 2 (1956) All Night Session! Vol. 3 (1956) Baritones and French Horns/Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns (1957) Four! (1958) Bird Song (1956–58) For Real! (1958) The Sermon (1958) The Green Leaves of Summer (1964) Here and Now (1965) The Seance (1966) I'm All Smiles (1966) Universe (1972) Blues for Walls (1973) Playin' in the Yard (1973) Northern Windows (1974) As Long as There's Music (1976) Something Special (1976) Hampton Hawes at the Piano (1976)
Sideman with others	Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux (1973) I'll Catch the Sun! (Sonny Criss, 1969) On the Road (Art Farmer, 1976) The Hunt (Dexter Gordon, 1947) Blues à la Suisse (Dexter Gordon, 1973) Kessel Plays Standards (Barney Kessel, 1955) Let's Cook! (Barney Kessel, 1957) Live in Hollywood (Warne Marsh, 1952) Mingus Three (Charles Mingus, 1957) Stratosonic Nuances (Blue Mitchell, 1975) The Early Show (Art Pepper, 1952) Surf Ride (Art Pepper, 1952) Living Legend (Art Pepper, 1976) Modern Sounds (Shorty Rogers, 1951) Shorty Rogers and His Giants (1953) Bud Shank – Shorty Rogers – Bill Perkins (1955) Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders (1958) So Doggone Good (Sonny Stitt, 1972)

v t e Cedar Walton
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Cedar! (1967) Spectrum (1968) The Electric Boogaloo Song (1969) Soul Cycle (1969) Breakthrough! (1972) A Night at Boomers, Vol. 1 (1973) A Night at Boomers, Vol. 2 (1973) Firm Roots (1974) Pit Inn (1974) Mobius (1975) Eastern Rebellion (1976) The Pentagon (1975) Beyond Mobius (1976) Eastern Rebellion 2 (1977) First Set (1977) Second Set (1977) Third Set (1977) Animation (1978) Eastern Rebellion 3 (1979) Soundscapes (1980) The Maestro (1981) Piano Solos (1981) Heart & Soul (1982) Among Friends (1982) The All American Trio (1983) Eastern Rebellion 4 (1983) Cedar's Blues (1985) The Trio 1 (1985) The Trio 2 (1985) The Trio 3 (1985) Cedar Walton (1985) Bluesville Time (1985) Blues for Myself (1986) Cedar Walton Plays (1986) Duo (1990) Cedar Walton at Maybeck (1992) Manhattan Afternoon (1992) Composer (1996) Roots (1997) The Promise Land (2001) Latin Tinge (2002) Underground Memoirs (2005) Midnight Waltz (2005) One Flight Down (2006) Seasoned Wood (2008) Voices Deep Within (2009) The Bouncer (2011)
As sideman with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	Three Blind Mice (1961) Mosaic (1961) Buhaina's Delight (1961) Caravan (1962) Ugetsu (1963) Free for All (1964) Kyoto (1964) Indestructible (1964) Golden Boy (1964) Buhaina (1973) Anthenagin (1973)
With Art Farmer (or where stated), Benny Golson & The Jazztet	Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Golson, 1960–61) The Jazztet and John Lewis (The Jazztet, 1960–61) Big City Sounds (The Jazztet, 1961) The Jazztet at Birdhouse (The Jazztet, 1961) The Time and the Place (1967) The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits (1967) Homecoming (1971) Yesterday's Thoughts (1975) To Duke with Love (1975) The Summer Knows (1976) Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers (1976) Voices All (The Jazztet, 1982)
With Eddie Harris	Cool Sax from Hollywood to Broadway (1964) The In Sound (1965) Mean Greens (1966) The Tender Storm (1966) Excursions (1966) How Can You Live Like That? (1976)
With Billy Higgins	Soweto (1979) The Soldier (1979) Once More (1980) Bridgework (1980–86) Billy Higgins Quintet (1993)
With Milt Jackson	Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art (1965) Born Free (1966) Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet (1968) Goodbye (1972–73) Olinga (1974)
With Etta James	Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday (1994) Time After Time (1995) 12 Songs of Christmas (1998) Blue Gardenia (2000–1)
With Clifford Jordan	Spellbound (1960) Starting Time (1961) Bearcat (1962) These are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly (1965) Glass Bead Games (1973) Half Note (1974) Night of the Mark VII (aka, The Highest Mountain, Muse, 1975) On Stage Vol. 1 (1975) On Stage Vol. 2 (1975) On Stage Vol. 3 (1975) Firm Roots (1975) The Highest Mountain (SteepleChase, 1975)
With Blue Mitchell	The Cup Bearers (1962) Boss Horn (1966) Stratosonic Nuances (1975) Summer Soft (1977)
With Houston Person	Chocomotive (1967) Trust in Me (1967) Blue Odyssey (1968) Broken Windows, Empty Hallways (1972) The Big Horn (1976) Very Personal (1980) Naturally (2012)
With others	God Bless Jug and Sonny (Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, 1973) Left Bank Encores (Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, 1973) Something for Lester (Ray Brown, 1977) Slow Drag (Donald Byrd, 1967) The Almoravid (Joe Chambers, 1971–73) Somethin's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1981) Broken Shadows (Ornette Coleman, 1971–72) Katumbo (Dance) (Johnny Coles, 1971) Giant Steps (John Coltrane, 1959) Up, Up and Away (Sonny Criss, 1967) The Beat Goes On! (Sonny Criss, 1968) This Is the Moment! (Kenny Dorham, 1958) Blue Spring (Kenny Dorham & Cannonball Adderley, 1959) It's All Right! (Teddy Edwards, 1967) Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Smokin' (Curtis Fuller, 1972) Tangerine (Dexter Gordon, 1972) Generation (Dexter Gordon, 1972) Bush Dance (Johnny Griffin, 1978) Roots (Slide Hampton, 1985) The Quota (Jimmy Heath, 1961) Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962) Mode for Joe (Joe Henderson, 1966) Hub Cap (Freddie Hubbard, 1961) Here to Stay (Freddie Hubbard, 1962) The Body & the Soul (Freddie Hubbard,1963) Bolivia (Freddie Hubbard, 1991) Highway One (Bobby Hutcherson, 1978) Farewell Keystone (Bobby Hutcherson, 1982) Really Livin' (J.J. Johnson, 1959) J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1960) Save Your Love for Me (Etta Jones, 1986) Advance! (Philly Joe Jones, 1978) Drum Song (Philly Joe Jones, 1978) Seven Minds (Sam Jones, 1974) Something in Common (Sam Jones, 1974–77) First Class Kloss! (Eric Kloss, 1967) Abbey Is Blue (Abbey Lincoln, 1959) Strings! (Pat Martino, 1967) From This Moment On! (Charles McPherson, 1968) Horizons (Charles McPherson, 1968) Caramba! (Lee Morgan, 1968) The Sixth Sense (Lee Morgan, 1968) The Mode (Sonny Red, 1961) Sonny Red (1971) Setting Standards (Woody Shaw, 1983) For Losers (Archie Shepp, 1968–69) Kwanza (Archie Shepp, 1968–69) Now Is the Time (Idrees Sulieman, 1976) Goodbye Yesterday (Lucky Thompson, 1972) Concert: Friday the 13th – Cook County Jail (Lucky Thompson, 1972) I Offer You (Lucky Thompson, 1973) Another Story (Stanley Turrentine, 1969) Up Front (David Williams, 1986)