Blue Mitchell : Cup Bearers

Length: 43:28

  Blue Mitchell - Trumpet
  Cedar Walton - Piano
  Gene Taylor - Bass
  Junior Cook - Saxophone, Sax (Tenor)
  Roy Brooks - Drums

Trumpeter Blue Mitchell and four-fifths of the Horace Silver Quintet (with Cedar Walton in Silver's place) perform a variety of superior songs on this CD reissue including Walton's 'Turquoise,' Tom McIntosh's 'Cup Bearers,' Thad Jones's 'Tiger Lily' and a couple of standards. The music swings hard, mostly avoids sounding like a Horace Silver group, and has particularly strong solos from Mitchell, tenor-saxophonist Junior Cook and Walton ; excellent hard bop. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide