Dorado

Recorded in 1973 for Blue Note Records, the session featured Blue Mitchell on trumpet leading a funk-oriented ensemble as part of his mid-career shift toward the soul-jazz and jazz-funk sounds Blue Note was pursuing to reach contemporary Black American audiences. Released on Blue Note Records on the album 'Stratosonic Nuances', the track placed Mitchell's hard bop trumpet voice within a groove-centred production context that reflected the label's commercial repositioning during the early 1970s. The track has been sampled by hip-hop producers attracted to its rhythmic trumpet phrasing and funk-inflected rhythm section, and stands as part of the Blue Note catalogue's deep vein of early 1970s jazz-funk material that sustained the label's presence in crate-digging culture.