Funktion Junction

Funktion Junction
Funktion Junction
Studio album by Blue Mitchell
Released	1976
Recorded	1976
Studio	RCA's Studio A, Hollywood, California
Genre	Jazz
Label	RCA
Producer	Mike Lipskin
Blue Mitchell chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Funktion Junction is a 1976 album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell. It was his last album released by RCA Records.

Track listing[edit]

"I'm In Heaven" (Mervin Steals) 5:37
"AM-FM Blues" (Blue Mitchell) 4:21
"Then Came You" (Phillip Pugh, Sherman Marshall) 4:52
"Daydream" (Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, John LaTouche) 4:45
"Love Machine" (Billy Griffin, Pete Moore) 7:19
"Delilah" (Victor Young) 8:11
"Collaborations" (Blue Mitchell) 5:15

Personnel[edit]

Blue Mitchell - trumpet, flugelhorn
James Gadson - drums
Henry Davis, Ron Brown - bass
David T. Walker, Michael Anthony - guitar
Mike Lipskin - synthesizer, percussion
Clarence McDonald - piano
Gary Coleman - percussion
Harold Land - tenor saxophone
Wayne Andre, Alan Raph - trombone
David Moore - cello
George Young - tenor saxophone, flute
John Gatchell, Jon Faddis - trumpet, flugelhorn
Alvin Rogers, Harold Kohon, Norman Carr - violin
Frank Floyd, Gwendolyn Guthrie, Patti Austin - backing vocals

Charts[edit]

Chart (1976)	Peak position
Billboard Top Jazz Albums^[2]	31

External links[edit]

Blue Mitchell-Funktion Junction at Discogs

References[edit]

^ Music, All. Blue Mitchell: Funktion Junction > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
^ "Blue Mitchell US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-10-27.

[1] Music, All. Blue Mitchell: Funktion Junction > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 October 2011.

[allmusic_albums-2] "Blue Mitchell US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-10-27.

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v t e 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)