Browse by Artist: MOBLEY, HANK

Artist:	MOBLEY, HANK
Title:	The Turnaround!
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BLP 4186LP

Exact repro of this 1965 release. "The Hank Mobley of the Turnaround album was a markedly different one from a few years earlier. This session issued in early 1965 was the product of two different sessions. The first was in March of 1963, immediately after Mobley left the Miles Davis band. Those recordings produced 'East of the Village,' possibly the greatest example of Mobley's 'round tone' on record, and the other was 'The Good Life,' a ballad. The rest was recorded nearly two years later in February of 1965. The title cut was produced here -- an Alfred Lion answer to Lee Morgan's 'Sidewinder,' which was burning up the charts -- as well as the beautiful 'Pat 'n' Chat,' with 'Straight Ahead' and 'My Sin' rounding out the program." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	MOBLEY, HANK
Title:	Hi Voltage
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BLP 4273LP

Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1967. Featuring Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Jackie McLean (alto sax), Hank Mobley (tenor sax), John Hicks (piano), Bob Cranshaw (bass) and Billy Higgins (drums). "Hank's path along the road to maturity took him on a level course through the latter days of the bebop era. While many musicians of the day were trying to smooth out some of the rough edges of bop (in certain cases this led to the so-called cool counter-revolution), Hank already had his own thing pretty well together. During the middle and late 1950s he seemed just as much at ease with the typical combos of that period (the hard bop phase) as he had in his earliest days. Some critics have detected in him a slight Coltrane influence. It would be difficult indeed for any tenor saxophonist with open ears not to have absorbed a touch of Trane during the 1960s, but the inherent quality of the Mobley sound, and the craftsmanlike way in which he has evolved his own facility of phrasing (let's call it the Mobley Mobility) precludes any strong resemblance between the two."

Artist:	MOBLEY, HANK
Title:	The Flip
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BST 84329LP

Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1969. Featuring Dizzy Reece (trumpet), Slide Hampton (trombone), Vince Benedetti (piano), Alby Cullaz (bass) and Philly Joe Jones (drums). "The title track opens the set and it lays deep in the soul-jazz cut, tempered by hard bop sensibilities: the solos by Reece, Hampton, and Mobley are top-notch, but it is Benedetti's muscular comping and blues-wailing piano that drives the tune. 'Feelin Folksy,' means in an African way, with its beautifully crafted and lively minor key melody that touches upon South African township musics and the lyrical harmonic assertions put forth by Abdullah Ibrahim (then known as Dollar Brand). But the personality of the tune, with its gloriously bluesy swing, is all Mobley." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	MOBLEY, HANK
Title:	A Slice Of The Top
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	LT 995LP

Exact repro reissue featuring Hank Mobley (tenor sax), James Spaulding (alto sax), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Kiane Zawadi (euphonium), Howard Johnson (tuba), McCoy Tyner (piano), Reggie Workman (bass) and Billy Higgins (drums). "This is one of tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley's more intriguing sessions, for the talented composer had an opportunity to have four of his originals, plus the standard 'There's a Lull in My Life,' performed by an octet in the cool-toned style of Miles Davis's 'Birth of the Cool' nonet, arranged by Duke Pearson. Although recorded in 1966, this date was not released until 1979. Mobley, who continued to evolve into a more advanced player throughout the 1960s, fits right in with such adventurous players as altoist James Spaulding, trumpeter Lee Morgan (with whom Mobley recorded frequently), pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Billy Higgins. The inclusion of Kiane Zawadi on euphonium and Howard Johnson on tuba adds a lot of color to this memorable outing." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	MOBLEY, HANK
Title:	Workout
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	ST 84080LP

Exact repro reissue; originally issued on Blue Note in 1961. Featuring Grant Green (guitar), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums) and Hank Mobley (tenor sax). "Mobley in some of his best company: guitarist Grant Green, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones. Each of these men made dozens of recordings like this one, and in their day they were little noted except as a payday for the musicians and a momentary showcase for their fans to enjoy. But from the standpoint of forty years in the future we can see the high level of mastery these musicians had achieved. Mobley is his mellow-toned self, and he finds a perfect partner in Green, whose electrically-charged lines take Mobley's quiet fire and run with it. Green glows particularly brightly on 'Workout,' while on the jaunty 'Uh Huh' Mobley takes chorus after chorus with a subtle buildup of intensity that reveals him to be a past master of architectonics. And the rhythm section! Philly Joe hasn't lost a step here, and indeed commands more attention than on his dates with Miles. This one was all in a day's work, but what a day! A tour de force. A masterpiece." -- All About Jazz

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