Discography

As leader

Year	Title	Label	Personnel
1958	Big 6	Riverside
1959	Out of the Blue	Riverside
1959	Blue Soul	Riverside
1960	Blue’s Moods	Riverside
1961	Smooth as the Wind	Riverside
1962	A Sure Thing	Riverside
1962	The Cup Bearers	Riverside
1963	Step Lightly	Blue Note, Released 1980
1964	The Thing to Do	Blue Note
1965	Down with It!	Blue Note
1966	Bring It Home to Me	Blue Note
1966	Boss Horn	Blue Note
1967	Heads Up!	Blue Note
1968	Collision in Black	Blue Note
1969	Bantu Village	Blue Note
1971	Blue Mitchell (AKA Soul Village)	Mainstream
1971	Vital Blue	Mainstream
1972	Blues’ Blues	Mainstream
1973	The Last Tango = Blues	Mainstream
1973	Graffiti Blues	Mainstream
1974	Many Shades of Blue	Mainstream
1975	Stratosonic Nuances	RCA
1976	Funktion Junction	RCA
1977	African Violet	ABC Impulse!
1977	Mapenzi	Concord Jazz
1977	Stablemates	Candid
1977	Summer Soft	Impulse!

As sideman

Year	Leader	Title	Label
1952	Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet	Blue Note
1958	Cannonball Adderley	Portrait of Cannonball	Riverside
1959	Philly Joe Jones	Drums Around the World	Riverside
1959	Lou Donaldson	The Time is Right	Blue Note
1959	Jackie McLean	Jackie’s Bag	Blue Note
1959	Horace Silver	Finger Poppin’	Blue Note
1959	Horace Silver	Blowin’ the Blues Away	Blue Note
1959	Philly Joe Jones	Showcase	Riverside
1960	Jimmy Smith	Open House	Blue Note
1960	Jimmy Smith	Plain Talk	Blue Note
1960	Horace Silver	Horace-Scope	Blue Note
1960	Charlie Rouse	Takin’ Care of Business	Jazzland
1960	Sam Jones	The Soul Society	Riverside
1960	Bobby Timmons	Soul Time	Riverside
1960	Jackie McLean	Capuchin Swing	Blue Note
1960	Jackie McLean & Tina Brooks	Street Singer	Blue Note
1960	Tina Brooks	Back to the Tracks	Blue Note
1960	Sonny Red	Breezing	Jazzland
1961	Junior Cook	Junior’s Cookin’	Jazzland
1961	Elmo Hope	Homecoming!	Riverside
1961	Sam Jones	The Chant	Riverside
1961	Philly Joe Jones and Elvin Jones	Together!	Atlantic
1961	Horace Silver	Doin’ the Thing	Blue Note
1961	Ray Charles	My Kind of Jazz	ABC-Paramount
1962	Horace Silver	The Tokyo Blues	Blue Note
1962	Tadd Dameron	The Magic Touch	Riverside
1962	Sonny Red	Images	Jazzland
1962	Sam Jones	Down Home	Riverside
1963	Stanley Turrentine	A Chip Off the Old Block	Blue Note
1963	Harold Vick	Steppin’ Out!	Blue Note
1963	Horace Silver	Silver’s Serenade	Blue Note
1963	Freddie Roach	Good Move!	Blue Note
1964	Horace Silver	Song For My Father	Blue Note
1964	Stanley Turrentine	In Memory Of	Blue Note
1965	Big John Patton	Oh Baby!	Blue Note
1965	George Benson	Benson Burner	Columbia
1966	Stanley Turrentine	Rough ‘n’ Tumble	Blue Note
1966	Stanley Turrentine	The Spoiler	Blue Note
1967	Lou Donaldson	Mr. Shing-A-Ling	Blue Note
1967	Stanley Turrentine	A Bluish Bag	Blue Note
1967	Hank Mobley	Hi Voltage	Blue Note
1967	Stanley Turrentine	The Return of the Prodigal Son	Blue Note
1968	Lou Donaldson	Midnight Creeper	Blue Note
1968	Yusef Lateef	The Blue Yusef Lateef	Atlantic
1968	Lou Donaldson	Say It Loud!	Blue Note
1969	Jimmy McGriff	Electric Funk	Blue Note
1970	Lou Donaldson	Everything I Play is Funky	Blue Note
1970	Grant Green	Green Is Beautiful	Blue Note
1970	Lou Donaldson	Pretty Things	Blue Note
1971	Stanley Turrentine	The Sugar Man	CTI
1972	John Mayall	Jazz Blues Fusion	Polydor
1972	Papa John Creach	Filthy!	Grunt
1973	John Mayall	Moving On	Polydor
1973	John Mayall	Ten Years Are Gone	Polydor
1975	Bobby Hutcherson	Montara	Blue Note
1976	Al Cohn, Dexter Gordon	True Blue	Xanadu Records
1976	Al Cohn, Dexter Gordon	Silver Blue	Xanadu Records
1978	Philly Joe Jones	Drum Song	Galaxy Records