title: African Violet (album)
text: # African Violet (album)
  
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  African Violet is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell which features arrangements by McKinley Mitchell recorded in 1977 and released on the Impulse! label in 1978.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "Mississippi Jump" (Larry Nash) – 6:38
  * "Ojos de Rojo" (Cedar Walton) – 4:04
  * "Sand Castles" (Dana Kaproff) – 6:08
  * "African Violet" (Steve Hulse) – 6:38
  * "As" (Stevie Wonder) – 6:28
  * "Square Business" (Cedar Walton) – 8:24
  * "Forget" (Don Sebesky) – 6:51
     * Recorded at The Burbank Studios in Burbank, California in 1977.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Blue Mitchell – trumpet (tracks 1, 2, & 4–6), flugelhorn (tracks 3 & 7)
  * Herman Riley (tracks 1 & 4), Harold Land (tracks 2, 3 & 5–7) – tenor saxophone
  * Sonny Burke – electric piano (tracks 1 & 4–7), piano (tracks 2 & 3)
  * McKinley Jackson (tracks 2, 4 & 7), Michael Boddicker (tracks 3, 5 & 6) – synthesizer
  * Lee Ritenour – electric guitar (tracks 1–7), guitar (track 7)
  * Scott Edwards – bass (track 1), electric bass (tracks 2–4 & 6)
  * Chuck Domanico – electric bass (track 5), bass (track 7)
  * James Gadson (tracks 1–4 & 6), Harold Mason (tracks 5 & 7) – drums
  * Paulinho Da Costa – congas (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 6)
  * Eddie "Bongo" Brown – congas, percussion (tracks 3, 5 & 7)
  * Bob Zimmitti – marimba (track 7), percussion (tracks 5 & 7)
  * Julia Tillman, Luther Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters – vocals (tracks 3 & 5)
  * The Sid Sharp Strings (tracks 3 & 7)
  